2023

All fun and games

Swinging at the piñata, spinning the bottle and bobbing for apples in a year of political party games.

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Who’s who

Cartoon of the cartoonist Sean Leahy
Cartoon excerpt showing a rabbit's head emerging from a tree trunk.
Portrait photo of Bill Leak

The process

Listen to Australian cartoonists describe their creative processes.

The process →

All years

Behind the Lines is an annual exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. It celebrates the role of political cartoonists in Australia and highlights the power that their artworks have in contributing to our daily political and social discourse.

MoAD has hosted Behind the Lines since 2011. On this website you can browse the exhibitions between 2019 and 2023 in full.