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Mark Knight cartoon Friday 13th Feb 2026. Angus Taylor to challenge Sussan Ley for the Lib Leadership

Liberals fire up the leader barbie

Australia has a new Opposition Leader after the vote Friday morning, with Sussan Ley going down in flames drawn by Mark Knight as the Libs ‘throwing another leader on the barbie’

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Mark Knight cartoon Wednesday 4th Feb 2026. Today's RBA interest rate rise.

All aboard RBA runaway rate train

Award-winning Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight returns to Kid News with the Reserve Bank and Treasury clashing at the coalface of our economy as Aussies become nervous passengers

Society and Culture

Screengrabs from the Life in Australia series, commissioned by the Department of Immigration in the 1960s to attract migrants, restored in 4K by the National Film and Sound Archive. Picture: NFSA/YouTube

What was 1960s Australia like?

Remarkable footage showcasing life in Australia in the 1960s – used as a ‘marketing tool’ to attract more British migrants – has been restored in 4K – but does it really reflect the way we were?

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KIDS NEWS WHAT'S ON WRAP. Australiaâs favourite Japanese magic bar, MAHO MAGIC BAR, will delight and astonish the whole family this summer with its family-friendly sessions, perfect to keep the kids entertained this school holidays. Picture: Jeff Busby

What’s on these summer holidays

The festive season is finally here and there’s plenty of magic happening across the country. Here are some of our favourite things to do and see in each state and territory across Australia

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Mark Knight cartoon Mon 1 Dec 2025 Anthony Albanese and Josie Hayden's wedding

All’s fair in love and wagyu

Love struck twice in Canberra this past week in cartoonist Mark Knight’s take, as the Prime Minister tied the knot while Barnaby Joyce enjoyed a political date with One Nation’s Pauline Hanson

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Mark Knight cartoon Thu 26 Nov 2025 Our higher power prices Bowen

Power price pledge unplugged

Do your parents stomp around switching off lights? Well, Mark Knight’s toon delivers this power point: energy costs are currently Australia’s biggest inflation driver despite election promises

Spelling Bee

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 25, 2025: News Corp Australia's Content Director Education and Lifestyle, Diana Jenkins, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, with the Prime Minister's Spelling Bee, National Champions 2025, Elise Chittelborough Year 5-6 (Orange) (SA), Aditya Paul Year 7-8 (Red) (NSW), Echo Feng Year 3-4 (green) (ACT) and News Corp Australia's Community Ambassador, Penny Fowler at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

PM leaves Bee winners in stitches

The winners of this year’s PM Spelling Bee erupted in laughter when they met Anthony Albanese after he joked about spelling a certain political word. Find out which word it was

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17, November, 2025. **For The Saturday Telegraph**

Teen’s iPhone film gets top nod

Between homework and her fast-food job, meet the 16-year-old Australian teen who has made Australian film awards history with a scary movie she shot entirely on her smartphone

Just for Fun

KIDS NEWS. UNICEF ambassador Emma McKeon, visited John Paul College in Brisbane to celebrate World ChildrenÃ¢â¬â¢s Day. Picture: UNICEF

Get loud on World Children’s Day

November 20 is World Children’s Day and UNICEF is inviting all Aussie kids to celebrate with ‘a Minute of Loudness’ about the things that matter most to them – so what matters most to you?

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Mark Knight cartoon for Herald Sun, November 11, 2025

Could federal fiasco flow to states

Fifty years since Australia’s most dramatic government crisis, Mark Knight’s Dismissal cartoon captures the cast of Whitlam’s sacking but also ponders if history could repeat in state politics

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How war fuels federal budget fires

Brit artist Banksy finally unmasked

Love reading? Take part in Australian Reading Hour

Enter the Junior Journalist competition

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s Super Treasurer

Gaza’s kids paint a brighter future

PM’s plan for multistate fast train

Tiny entrepreneur’s boredom bid

MotoGP banished instead of bikies

Giddy up for the Year of the Horse

Liberals fire up the leader barbie

All aboard RBA runaway rate train

What was 1960s Australia like?

What’s on these summer holidays

All’s fair in love and wagyu

Power price pledge unplugged

PM leaves Bee winners in stitches

Teen’s iPhone film gets top nod

Get loud on World Children’s Day

Could federal fiasco flow to states