A Sporting Chance
Politics and spectator sports
Sports commentators and political cartoonists share a love for metaphors, mishaps and exaggeration. 2021’s headline sporting events gave both professions a workout.
From tennis and cycling to the much-needed distraction of the Tokyo Olympics, our competitive spirit provided cartoonists with visual gags for a range of issues from Labor policies to the vaccine rollout. Beyond the goings-on in Canberra, a new champion was celebrated.
In Melbourne, political cartooning took to the street, or to be more specific, the tennis court.
The Closed Australian Open
Van Nishing, self-published,
Aussie Aussie Aussie for Some
John Shakespeare, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age,
Rollout de Vax
David Pope, The Canberra Times,
Team Australia
Mark Knight, Herald Sun,
Going for Gold
Fiona Katauskas, Eureka Street,
Synchronized Sinking
Glen Le Lievre, Patreon,
Degree of Difficulty
Andrew Dyson, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age,
Low Bar Olympians
David Rowe, The Australian Financial Review,
Boom!
Brett Lethbridge, The Courier-Mail,
Pride of Place
Chris Downes, The Mercury (Hobart),
Missing in Opposition
Fiona Katauskas, Eureka Street,