ASPI TikTok cover

Animated cover available here.

Lead image for comic on tree hollows

Full comic here.

War In 2025 promo illustration

Illustration for ASPI’s War In 2025 conference.

Pharmacists have a vital role in shining a brighter light on blood cancer

Lead image for an opinion article on the under-treatment of blood cancers in the UK for The Pharmaceutical Journal.

Lead image for Australian Budget coverage

Featured in the Museum of Australian Democracy’s best of 2023 political cartoons exhibition Behind The Lines.

Explanatory image on the Australian energy grid

Full article here.

Cover illustration for a paper on Chinese social media campaigns during Solomon Islands riots

Animated cover online here.

Illustration for an article for teenagers on how to clean the penis

Full article here.

Illustration for article on women's health

Full article available here.

Cover image for an article on Sky News' behaviour in the 2022 Australian federal election

Full article here.

Supporting image with female world leaders

…for ASPI’s War In 2025 conference.

This Machine Feeds Fascists

Illustration for an article on the media and social response to – and mishandling of – the Christchurch massacre live stream.

Cartoon on "watergate"

As featured on the ABC’s Talking Pictures.

Baby new/old government

Illustration for an article on the challenges for the incoming incumbent Morrison government.

Bye Bye Guthrie

From the day following Michelle Guthrie’s unceremonious turfing from the ABC.

Turn back the Tones

From the day that Scott Morrison became PM (within the next few hours), supporting an article about how the flow of votes actually pushed Peter Dutton out of the running.

But the base!

From an article by Judith Brett exploring the shrinking Liberal Party base and who it might actually be at this point.

US midterms

For an article explaining the US midterms, what they could mean for the Democrats and why they’re simultaneously not and definitely also are a referendum on Trump’s presidency.

Just two regular Joes

From an article about how we expert our leaders to play at being regular Joes, while also making decisions for the nation, by Frank Bongiorno.

Carbon economics

From an article by Judith Brett proposing that a lack of climate policy is the Liberal Party’s biggest economic problem.

Comic explainer at The Conversation on lone-actor terrorism with RUSI terror expert Raffaello Pantucci.

Comic explainer for The Conversation on Islamic finance with Mamiza Haq.

On President Trump's executive orders

Illustration for an article on women online

Originally published on an article at the Conversation.

Panel from my comic interview...

...with cartoonist Luo Jie, who draws for the state-owned China Daily. Full comic up at Junkee.

On the French burkini ban

#SavePepe

Created for cartoonist Matt Furie's Save Pepe campaign.

Comic explainer: how memory works

From a long-form comic explainer on how memory works, a collaboration with the Florey Institute's Dr Jee Hyun Kim. Co-published with the ABC.

iMalc

Originally published at Crikey on Wednesday 4 June 2014, on the Malcolm Turnbull's continued rise in popularity as alternative Liberal leader in the polls.

Featured in the "Behind the Lines - the best political cartoons of 2014" exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in Canberra.

Source – http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/06/04/the-sandpit-wes-mountain-13/

Image for an article on Australian place names

Originally published at the Conversation: Buggered if I know where I am: the stories behind Australia’s weird and wonderful place names.

Spiked

Originally published at Crikey on Thursday 12 June 2014, tying together Australian asylum seeker policy and anti-homeless spikes as seen in UK apartment block eaves.

Source – http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/06/12/the-sandpit-wes-mountain-15/

Cause and effect

Originally published at Crikey on Wednesday 28 May 2014. On the findings of the Cornall Report into riots at Manus Island, and Immigration Scott Morrison's response to questioning on the topic.

Source – http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/05/28/the-sandpit-wes-mountain-12/

The Tone Drone

Originally published at Crikey on Wednesday 19 June 2014, following PM Tony Abbott's offer of support to the US in any action against ISIL/ISIS forces in the north of Iraq.

Source – http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/06/18/the-sandpit-wes-mountain-16/

Country of Origin

Originally published on Crikey, following the news that the High Court would be granting an injunction preventing the refoulement of 153 asylum seekers to Sri Lanka by the Australian Government - on the same day as the final match in the Rugby State of Origin series.

Source – http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/07/09/the-sandpit-wes-mountain-19/

Budget Cartoon: Rise like a surplus

Published at Crikey on Wednesday 14 May following the announcement of the 2014 Budget.

Source – http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/05/14/the-sandpit-wes-mountain-10/

Jünt Strïk Fïta

Originally published on Wednesday 24 April 2014. Number one post on reddit Australia for the week it was published.

Source – http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/04/24/the-sandpit-wes-mountain-6/

The Shorten Wheel.

Posted at This Is Australia. Today. after Kevin Rudd ousted Julia Gillard as Labor PM.

The Conservative Hulk

Originally published at Crikey on Wednesday 11 April 2014. 

Source – http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/04/11/the-sandpit-wes-mountain-4/

Operation Sovereign Safety

Originally posted on social media and at This is Australia. Today., then used for a campaign by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre on Facebook and shared over 300 times.

Dob in line

Originally published at Crikey on Wednesday 9 April 2014, on changes to employment arrangements at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on the criticism of government policy.

Source – http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/04/09/the-sandpit-wes-mountain-3/

COAG Branding Workshop

Originally published at Crikey on Wednesday 22 May 2014, on the suggestion that states should pull themselves up by their bootstraps to find funding for various services previously supported by the Federal government.

Source – http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/05/22/the-sandpit-wes-mountain-11/

Shirt front

Feature at the University of Melbourne's G20 Watch.

Cartoon on Senator Leyonhjelm's manoeuvres to get the Adler shotgun approved for import