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2025 Walkley Award Nominees for Cartoon of the Year (Australia)

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D. D. Degg Published: October 17, 2025 Updated: October 17, 2025 1 minute 0 comments

The Walkley Foundation reveals the finalists of the 70th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. “Australia’s pre-eminent national journalism awards, recognise and reward the best in the craft and set the industry standard for excellence.”

… eligible entries [were] published or broadcast between 20 August, 2024 and 18 August 2025. 

For the most important category the nominees are…

ALL MEDIA: CARTOON OF THE YEAR

• Warren Brown, The Daily Telegraph, ‘Farmer Wants a Wife…’
• Alan Moir, The Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Scalpel’
• David Pope, The Canberra Times, ‘Gaza’

The above was a follow up to an earlier Albanese-Ley(?) cartoon by Brown:

The Canberra Times celebrated Pope’s nomination (or here):

Cartoonist David Pope has been named a finalist at the Walkley Awards for a 10^th time…

2025 Walkley Award winners will be announced at a gala dinner in Sydney on Thursday 27 November.