Behind the Lines 2025 – coming soon
Our annual exhibition of political cartooning.
Location
Lower floor
When
Opening soon
Cost
Free
Behind the Lines 2025: 'Are We Rolling?' celebrates the year's best political cartoons.
Featuring established and emerging cartoonists from across Australia, this exhibition highlights the significant contribution they make to cultural and political debates through witty, insightful and often poignant satirical drawings.
This year our Behind the Lines theme is the cinema, acknowledging that, like some of our favourite movies, 2025 has been full of thrills and spills, romance and heartbreak, with plenty of unexpected plot twists. Australia's cartoonists and illustrators have tackled many of the issues that made news, including the federal election, the cost of living, energy policy, interest rates, housing security, the economy, climate change and stories from overseas.
Visit previous years' exhibitions online.
Plan your visit
All areas of the exhibition are accessible by wheelchair.
When the exhibition is busy, there may be a lot of people in the hallways where the cartoons are hung.
The exhibition is located next to the Museum's accessible entry and can be a busy thoroughfare for visitors and staff.
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