Race, Aborigines & Australian Cartoonists
A short take on issues of race in the work of Australian cartoonists 1868 - 2009


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* First Land Sale - Melbourne Punch 1855
* Blackfellows at home in England and Australia - Scott Sydney Punch 1868
* The South Sea Labour Trade - May Bulletin 1886
* The Mongolian Octopus - His Grip on Australia - May Bulletin 1886
* His Native Land - May Bulletin 1887
* A curiosity in her own country - May Bulletin 1888
* The Yellow Trash Question - Hop Bulletin 1895
* Shifting Camp - Hop Bulletin 1898
* Piebald Possibilities - Hop Bulletin 1909
* The Prohibited Chow Pest - Vincent Bulletin 1909
* Prohibition - Cross Smith's Weekly 1922
* Getting Near - Glover Bulletin 1927
* A negative for a face- Stan Cross 1930
* The Isolationists - Norman Lindsay Bulletin 1937
* Pelaco Shirt Ads - 1940s
* Mushrooms - Molnar Daily Telegrah 1952
* New Australians - White Bulletin 1953
* Spare that tree - Scorfield Bulletin 1954
* Deplorable - Herald 1957
* When everybody IS equal - Shead Australian 1966
* NT Aborigines Vote - Gall Courier Mail 1966
* National Aborigines Day - Jeff Sun 1969
* Black Power - Tanner Age 1969
* Holy Ground - Bernier Sun 1970
* Demo La Perouse - Petty Age 1970
* Cook Celebrations - Molnar SMH 1970
* Demo against the Queen - Petty Age 1970
* Informality - Jeff Sun 1970
* New Legal Service - Collette Australian 1971
* Gove Decision - Jeff Sun 1971
* Bonner - Collette Australian 1971
* QLD=KKK - Collette Australian 1971
* QLD Act - Collette Australian 1971
* Trespassing - Ron Cobb - Nation Review 1972
* Aboriginal Embassy - Petty Australian 1972
* Embassy - 35hour week - Jeff Sun 1972
* Aboriginal Embassy- Nicholson Age 1972
* Aboriginal protests- Petty Australian 1972
* Win A Special Purpose Lease - Petty Australian 1972
* Land Rights - Australian 1972
* Embassy - Australian 1972
* Peaceful Protest - NicholsonAge 1972
* Land Rights Now- Tanner Age 1974
* Charlie Perkins- Tanner Age 1974
* Perkins- Molnar SMH 1974
* Minister bashing- Jeff Sun 1974
* British Disease- Jeff Sun 1977
* Try converting them...- Jeff 1978
* Homogeneity- Pickering Australian 1979
* Noonkanbah- Pryor Canberra Times 1980
* Incarceration- Pryor Canberra Times 1981
* Joh Bjelke-Peterson's QLD- Pryor Canberra Times 1981
* Brisbane Commonwealth Games- Pryor Canberra Times 1982
* Dispute- Jeff 1983
* Civilization?- Jeff - Sun 1984
* The Collector- Pryor Canberra Times 1984
* Migration- Jeff - Sun 1984
* Chances...- Pryor Canberra Times 1985
* A joke- Lofo Access 1985
* Party?- Jeff - Sun 1985
* ALP and the Abos- Petty Age 1986
* Apartheid - Jeff Sun 1986
* Census- Pryor Canberra Times 1986
* My son.... - McCrae The Bulletin 1987
* Father of Reconciliation - Nicholson Age 1987
* White Shoe Brigade- Pryor Canberra Times 1987
* Paying fo the First Fleet- Jeff 1987
* Discriminate- Pickering Bulletin 1987
* Suicide- Pryor Canberra Times 1987
* ID Card- Jeff 1987
* Hard to believe- Pickering The Bulletin 1987
* Progress- Martin Sydney Morning Herald 1987
* Treaty- Jeff Sun- November 1987
* South Africa- Jeff - Sun 1987
* Better off in South Africa- Jeff Sun 1992
* Nicky Winmar- Nicholson Age 1993
* Cathy Freeman- Nicholson Age 1996
* Reports, reports!- Nicholson Age 1997
* New Flag- Jeff - Sun 2000
* Walk for Reconciliation- Jeff - Sun 2000
* 1890 - 2002- Nicholson Age 2002
* 'Terra Impossibilis'- Nicholson Age 2002
* 'Stand Back I'm a Doctor'- Nicholson Age 2003
* Help Yourself- Nicholson Age 2003
* ATSIC Remains- Nicholson Age 2003
* Aboriginal Art- Leunig Age 2004
* The Long Walk- Petty Age 2004
* The Long Walk- Nicholson Age 2004
* The Long March- PettyAge 2004
* Missionary Position- Nicholson Age 2004
* Palm Island- Leahy in Courier Mail 2004
* Sorry- Leunig Age 2005
* Sorry- Hinze 2007

Note: These pages remain under construction

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