Cartoon roundups published across major Australian mastheads

Multiple Australian news outlets publish “Best of cartoons” compilations that present the day’s major issues through commentary and satire by contributing artists.

Across The Age (Melbourne), Brisbane Times and the Sydney Morning Herald, the pages are framed in the same way: as a curated selection of cartoons, illustrating how each outlet’s illustrators and cartoonists interpret current events on specific dates. The shared descriptions do not name particular topics or events, and they do not include details about individual cartoons’ subjects in the provided source text.

Because all items share identical editorial framing and only differ by masthead and publication date, the key differences across outlets in the available material are limited to where and when the cartoon collections appear, rather than to the underlying content described here. No source text provided offers direct, comparable specifics about themes, claims, or political targets depicted in individual cartoons.