Cartoon titled 'Kim "Policies..."'

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Type: Cartoons
Date: 2001
Place: Old Parliament House, Parkes, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Materials: Paper
Collection: Political Humour Competition 2001 collection
Accession number: 2001.0036.0007

Description

A black and white line drawing cartoon entitled 'Kim "Policies...".'. It features a caricature image of Kim Beazley and a woman facing each other, with the woman holding a paper with the text 'LABOR' at the top. Text linked to Mr Beazley reads 'Well if we haven't / got any policies, / just use what we / ran with in the last / elections!' The text linked to the woman reads 'Can't ! We / didn't have / any policies / then, / either!' The name 'J ALLISON' is written in the lower right corner. On the back of the cartoon is text in pencil that reads 'ATN July 01 / ABC Magazine / July 2001'.

About the collection

This collection consists of 150 political cartoons collected under the auspices of the National Museum's 2001 National political Humour Competition. There are 41 different artists represented in the collection including Alan Moir, Peter Nicholson, Geoff Pryor, Cathy Wilcox, Sean Leahy, Bruce Petty, Dean Alston and Ward O'Neil. The cartoons provide a satirical record of the major events and personalities in Australian politics in 2001. Major topics addressed within the collection include the 2001 election, asylum seekers (including the Tampa controversy) and the war in Afghanistan. There are examples from all major metropolitan newspapers as well as material from regional publications. There are traditional black and white editorial and pocket cartoons as well as colour illustrations and caricatures. Taken together the collection provides an archive of Australian political events in 2001 and demonstrate the quality of Australian cartooning and illustration.

Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 5:29:47 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2025-02-17. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.