71st Walkley Award Finalists
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The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the various categories of the 2026 Walkley Awards. The Walkley Awards “Australia’s pre-eminent national journalism awards, recognise and reward the best in the craft and set the industry standard for excellence.”
The finalists in the Cartoon of the Year award are…
Matt Golding, The Age, ‘Operation Epic Outsourcing’
Megan Herbert, The Age, ‘Discarded’
David Rowe, The Australian Financial Review, ‘Bondi’
The Australian Financial Review on their 4 Walkley nominations.
“David Rowe has been nominated for cartoon of the year for his illustration “Bondi”, an evocative piece which drew on an iconic Australian image to reflect on December’s massacre.”
The Sydney Morning Herald on the SMH and The Age’s 20 nominations (or here).
“Cartoonist Megan Hebert’s insightful work, Discarded, which satirised the Albanese government’s response to domestic violence, has been nominated in the Cartoon of the Year category.”
“The Age cartoonist Matt Golding also received a nomination in that category for his work Operation Epic Outsourcing.”
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