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Australian political cartooning - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia has a strong and vibrant history of political cartooning. Since the 1830s, when political cartoons were first featured in Australian newspapers, they have provided satirical, witty or humorous comment on political and public affairs, social cus...

Australian comedy - Australia's Culture Portal

Comedy is central to Australian cultural identity. Comedy forms the basis of many forms of popular entertainment from live cabaret with stand up comedians to television sketch shows. Australia is a country of climatic and geographic extremes and Austral...

Governors-General - Australia's Culture Portal

The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia represents the monarch of Australia - currently Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The functions and roles of the Governor-General include appointing ambassadors, ministers and judges, giving Royal Ass...

The Great Depression - Australia's Culture Portal

The Great Depression (1929–32) was a time of extreme hardship for people in Australia. Even before the devastating stock market crash on Wall Street (the centre of stock market trading in New York, United States of America), unemployment in Austral...

Australian humour - Australia's Culture Portal

Humour is seen in the Australian use of slang, and across media from cartoons in print, as sketches on radio, as comedy series on television, in films and with witty observations of life in Australian literature. Mocking the wowser is another common elem...

The birth of the newspaper in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

The Sydney Gazette, first published by ex-convict George Howe in 1803. George Howe was also permitted to print Australia's first newspaper from a humble shed located at the rear of Government House. The Sydney Gazette was the only newspaper circulated i...

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National Museum of Australia - Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Cartoons   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

Who we areHistoryMuseum volunteersThe buildingCorporate documentsCorporatePublicationsStaging your eventCopyright and Produ ... LibraryFeedbackContact usFriendsSponsorship opportu ... Bringing the House Down, the catalogue of the annual Bringing the Hou...

National Museum of Australia - Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Cartoons   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

Who we areHistoryMuseum volunteersThe buildingCorporate documentsCorporatePublicationsStaging your eventCopyright and Produ ... LibraryFeedbackContact usFriendsSponsorship opportu ... Bringing the House Down is a celebration of the best of Australian po...

Australian political cartooning - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

Australia has a strong and vibrant history of political cartooning. Since the 1830s, when political cartoons were first featured in Australian newspapers, they have provided satirical, witty or humorous comment on political and public affairs, social cus...

M/C Reviews - Satire: Best Australian Political Cartoons 2007   (website M/C Online: a journal of media and culture )

Reviewed by Tim RobertsReading Best Australian Political Cartoons 2007 provided me with a renewed surge of joy about the demise of the Howard Government. Of course, one doesnít read cartoons for their predictive skills ñ theyíre supposed to be funny, and...

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2007 · Readings.com.au   (website Readings: Australia's Finest Book & Music Store )

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Penguin Books Australia - Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 by Radcliffe Russ (ed)   (website Penguin Books Australia )

Not just a collection, more a subversive first draft of history, Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 is the essential guide to the new Labor era. > An Australian family saga spanning three generations > by Bryce Courtenay> Coming 16 November 2009> Rea...

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2008 by Russ Radcliffe . 9781921372322   (website The Book Abyss )

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2008 by Russ Radcliffe . After more than a decade of John Howard and the divisive politics that defined his era, how will Australia's political cartoonists adjust to Kevin Rudd's kinder, gentler government? Customer Re...

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 by Russ Radcliffe   (website The Book Abyss )

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Penguin Books Australia - Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 by Radcliffe Russ (ed)   (website Penguin Books Australia )

Not just a collection, more a subversive first draft of history, Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 is the essential guide to the new Labor era. > An Australian family saga spanning three generations > by Bryce Courtenay> Coming 16 November 2009> Rea...