Jules Faber is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator who has worked in animation, editorial cartooning and live caricaturing. A former President of the Australian Cartoonists Association, he has won multiple awards for his work, including the Jim Russell Award for Significant Contribution to Australian Cartooning and Book of the Year for Older Children with author Anh Do for WeirDo. He lives in Sydney with his wife and daughter and two polar opposite cats.
In 1999 Australia voted no to replacing the Queen as our head of state with a president.
In the 1951 referendum, Australia voted no on banning Communist ideology by the barest of margins.
Explore political cartoons in Behind the Lines exhibitions online.
Our collection captures the ideas, movements, people and events of Australian democracy.
For the first time in Australian history, a governor-general dismissed a prime minister and government.
Australians were asked to vote on whether men in National Service could be deployed to fight in World War One.
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