Best Australian Political Cartoons 2004

Australia has had a long and proud tradition of superb cartoonists, but we have never needed them more than we do today. Displaying more than 160 examples of the cartoonist s art, Best Australian Political Cartoons 2004 is a superb survey of the past political year as interpreted by such sardonic luminaries as Judy Horacek, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Sean Leahy, Bill Leak, Peter Nicholson, Bruce Petty, David Pope, Geoff Pryor, David Rowe, John Spooner, Andrew Weldon, and Cathy Wilcox.

As they move from irony to anger, these sharp-witted iconoclasts practitioners of our most democratic and levelling art form revel in the freedom of expression denied to other commentators. No print journalist has the same exhilarating ability to skewer the pomposity, the glib rhetoric, and the deliberate lies of our political elites.

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2004 is an unforgettable portrait of the past year and a tribute to the art, power, vitality, and wit of our finest cartoonists.