Behind the Lines: The Year’s Best Political Cartoons 2016 celebrates another year in Australia’s unique, vibrant and fearless tradition of political cartooning. No politician, party or policy is safe from the nation’s best cartoonists; witty, powerful or ribald, their images offer an astutely observed journey through twelve months in our political life. These cartoons capture the spirit of our democracy with its passion, scepticism and above all, humour.