John Spooner

John Spooner (LLB. BJuris) joined The Australian as an editorial cartoonist in 2019. Spooner, 78, has been a cartoonist, editorial illustrator, and artist for 50 years, including at The Age, The National Times, Time Magazine (Australia) and Quadrant. He has won multiple Stanley and Walkey awards, the Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year Award and the Fremantle Print Prize. His works are held in the NGV, State Library Victoria and the Art Gallery of Ballarat.

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Bill Mitchell editorial cartoon, 1986 - Bob Hawke

‘Great fun’: Our cartoonists spare no one

The 1980s were a gift with targets galore. International public figures included Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. In Australia, Bob Hawke emerged as the symbol of celebrity larrikinism.

John Spooner

GALLERYNation

It’s time for cartooning iconoclasts to take over

After serious political and social change in Australia in the 1960s, the attraction of rebellious leftist ideas danced into the 1970s. Our cartoonists found this era both dangerous and funny.

John Spooner

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Aubrey Collette editorial cartoon from 1967.

The 1960s in cartoons

Cartoonists Bruce Petty and Aubrey Collette took a running jump into the newly established national masthead and fitted right in to the rebellious mood of an optimistic post-World War II political vision.

John Spooner

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