John Spooner B.Juris,

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( Monash) (born 1946) is an Australian journalist and illustrator who regularly contributed to ''

The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...

'' newspaper. John Spooner was born in Melbourne in 1946. He practised as a lawyer for three years before he commenced drawing for ''The Age'' in 1974, finally leaving the law altogether in 1977 to draw full-time for the newspaper. Spooner has received various awards for excellence in journalism. Between 1985 and 1986 Spooner was awarded five Stanley Awards, including the Black and White Artist of the Year gold Stanley Award. In 1994 Spooner was awarded two Walkley Awards for Best Illustration and Best Cartoon. Spooner's works are represented in the Collections of The National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Victorian State Library, The Melbourne Cricket Club Museum, public and private collections throughout Australia and internationally. His publications include the book ''A Spooner in the Works'', published in 1999 by

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, comprising cartoons, prints and paintings; and ''Taxing Air: Facts and Fallacies about Climate Change'', which he co-authored with Prof. Robert Carter, William Kininmonth, Martin Feil, Prof. Stewart W. Franks and Bryan Leyland; published by Kelpie Press in 2013. Spooner's credits include five

Stanley Award The Stanley Awards, also known as The Stanleys, are an annual comics award issued by the Australian Cartoonists' Association which recognize the best of Australian cartoonists and cartooning. They are named after Stan Cross and were first orga ...

s, three

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, the joint winner of the 1986

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as well as the 2002

Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award The Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, often known simply as the Graham Perkin Award, is one of Australia's pre-eminent prizes for journalism. It was established and named in honour of Graham Perkin, who was editor of ''The ...

. He left ''The Age'' in May 2016 along with others made redundant by

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. In 2018 he published ''What the Hell Was He Thinking? John Spooner's Guide to the 21st Century'', a collection of his 21st-century work annotated with his own commentary.

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Artwork by John Spooner

– 27 June 2004 article from The Age
John Spooner cartoon collection, 1989–2000
– held and digitised by the National Library of Australia
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