SMH · Sunday 29 March 2026
SMH and The Age publish their daily roundup of editorial cartoons interpreting the political news cycle, a recurring feature that increasingly substitutes for written analysis.
Third cartoon roundup this month filed as hard news — at this point the masthead isn't curating political commentary, it's running a gallery with a subscription model. The cartoonists didn't ask to carry the analytical weight of an entire newsroom. That they do says less about the quality of the drawings than the poverty of everything published around them.