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Crossing the lines with cartoons By arts editor Helen Musa
partnership as “very sensible”, preCANBERRA is full of capital- dicting that many of the cartoons on centric rituals and one of them is show would end up in his museum’s the annual “Behind the Lines: the archives. year’s best cartoons” cartooning It was a rollicking opening, comexhibition staged by the National plete with satirical songs by Shortis Museum of Australia. and Simpson, who inevitably apoloThis year, the ritual has come gised for not being able to draw. full circle and the show is back in Sayers announced that the winner Old Parliament House, this time of the 2010 NMA Political Cartoonunder the joint management of the ing Award was Hobart cartoonist museum and the new Museum of Jon Kudelka, whose work appears Australian Democracy, in whose in “The Australian” and the Hobart galleries it can be seen throughout “Mercury”, praising his “clean and summer before touring to Mel- simple lines and devastating capbourne, Sydney, Perth and Bris- tions.” bane. Cartoonist David Pope, in anNational Museum director An- nouncing the talented winners of drew Sayers sniffed nostalgically the “drawing the lines” schools at being back in the building where cartooning competition, which he the National Portrait Gallery had judged, slipped in a plea of sympafound its feet and described his new thy for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The young winners, fearful to Pope because of the probability that they would pinch his generation’s jobs, were headed up by Cairo Modoo-Ley from Darwin, Simon Cutler from Nudgee, Queensland and Brenton Knight from Sawtell, NSW. As for the show itself, introduced by Schools’ cartooning competition winner Cairo the director of the Modoo-Ley’s “Queue jumpers or legitimate Museum of Australrefugees?”
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winners Cricket tickets THE winners of the five double passes to the Prime Minister’s XI were: Tim Matthews, Kingston; Owen Gregory, Amaroo; Chris Tournier, Bruce; Lauren Ogden, Aranda; and Alina Tooley, Narrabundah.
‘Top Gear’
Dan Boermans, “The Spill”. ian Democracy Jenny Anderson, it’s a beauty, benefiting from one of the most turbulent political and environmental years on record. While Julia Gillard’s nose and Tony Abbott’s budgie smugglers were higher on the list for lampooning, in the end they were eclipsed by an even worthier subject – Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd. Two years ago the cartoonists were struggling to capture Rudd, but now they have him to a tee. “Behind The Lines: the year’s best cartoons”, the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House until March 20.
Winner Jon Kudelka’s “Stop the boats!”
THE winners of the 10 “Top Gear – The Challenges 4” DVDs were: Ian McKenzie, Fisher; Jason Klose, Chifley; Mark Baker, Cook; Michael Baumgartner, Wanniassa; Winston Gregory, Murrumbateman; Cathy Geier, Dickson; Maryanne Barbaro, Harrison; Christina Faulk, Swinger Hill; Roger Bush, Kambah; and Jacqui Britton, Narrabundah.
DVD prizes
THE winners of the 10 “Married Single Other” DVDs were: Tracy Du Plooy, Amaroo; Rhiannon Kelly, Curtin; Jenny Gregory, Murrumbateman; Fleur Anderson, Jerrabomberra; Bronnie Bunnett, Hughes; Donna Fruzynski, Calwell; Brenda Moules, Kambah; Emily Richardson, Nicholls; Merilyn Kolarik, Ngunnawal; and Roger Bush, Kambah. Mark Knight, “Moving Forward”.