Alan Moir has been an editorial cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald since 1984 and, prior to that, for The Bulletin and The Courier-Mail. Moir was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1999. He has received two Walkley Awards for his work (2000 and 2006) and the United Nations Award for Political Cartooning in 1994. He was inducted into the Australian Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 2018.
In 1999 Australia voted no to replacing the Queen as our head of state with a president.
Explore political cartoons in Behind the Lines exhibitions online.
We love talking to new venues about hosting our Behind the Lines political cartoon exhibition.
Australians were asked to vote on whether men in National Service could be deployed to fight in World War One.
Your guide to the voting method we use in Australia.
Hear audio descriptions of political cartoons from Behind the Lines exhibitions.
The Museum of Australian Democracy acknowledges Australia's First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We respectfully acknowledge the role that First Nations people continue to play in shaping Australia's democracy. We also acknowledge the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the region in which MoAD is located.
