SMH · Sunday 22 March 2026
SMH and The Age continue publishing editorial cartoons from Wilcox, Letch, and Golding under federal politics — a quiet admission about where the sharpest analysis now lives.
The press gallery files fifteen hundred words to say what Wilcox says with a pen and a raised eyebrow. That the cartoons run under 'federal politics' isn't an editorial choice — it's a confession. Somewhere between the access journalism and the both-sides hedging, the drawings became the only prose in the building with a spine. When your most incisive political analysis comes without words, the words have a problem.