Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House

First Dog on the Moon

First Dog on the Moon (Andrew Marlton) has been a full-time political cartoonist since 2007 and is currently at The Guardian (Australia). First Dog has written 161 and illustrated books and performed live on stage and on radio. He is a Walkley Award–winner and was MoAD's Political Cartoonist of the Year in 2011.

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A long First Dog on the Moon comic addresses the housing crisis and the way in which the government tries to tie it to immigration, through small cartoon animals.

Immigration OR Housing

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 20 May 2024

A long First Dog on the Moon comic talks about the joys of seeing Aurora Australis from their backyard. The final panel says, 'What a waste of a perfectly good planet.'

Lovely Aurora

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 10 May 2024

A long First Dog on the Moon comic explains the Centrelink crisis through small animal characters. A man named Mark has his Centrelink payments cut while he has brain surgery.

Centrelink Brain

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 4 March 2024

A long First Dog on the Moon comic points out the gender pay gap with small cartoon animals. In the final square, a group of men decide that there's nothing they can do about it.

Gender Pay Gap

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 28 February 2024

A dog stands behind a lectern and addresses delegates at the 2023 ALP National Conference. The dog says they will only 'pretend to consider' changes to policy positions.

ALP Conference 2023

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 16 August 2023

Three penguins argue about whether climate change is more important than getting Taylor Swift tickets.

Sea Level Taylor Swift

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 28 June 2023

Across multiple cartoon cells, a potato attends a series of meetings and investigates the misuse of confidential information at PwC.

PwC 2023

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 2 June 2023

Three hand-puppets in three panels: a turtle, a dog and a penguin.

Turtle, dog and penguin puppets from The Carbon-Neutral Adventure of the Indefatigable EnviroTeens play

First Dog on the Moon, Archipelago Productions, 19 April 2023

Anthony Albanese's dog, Toto, goes aboard the 'HMAS APS' spaceship. Toto expresses surprise at its dire state, and finds thousands of APS employees in 'cryosleep'.

Commander Toto

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 22 June 2022

Two dogs recount the days of COVID. They block it out by singing, with a sign outlining number of deaths in the background. The dogs comTwo dogs recount the days of COVID. They block it out by singing, with a sign outlining number of deaths in the background. The dogs comment on how the community briefly came together.ment on how the community briefly came together.

COVID 2022 Help Help

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 8 June 2022

Multiple cartoon panels each containing a different scene where 'Scott Man' refuses to address the situation at hand.

Scott Man 2020

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 16 May 2022

Multiple panels outlining the stories of pets that survived flooding.

Stories of the Flood

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 18 March 2022

Multiple panels with 'Senator Ian the Climate Denialist Potato' disputing young people's issues in today's society, such as climate change.

Angry Climate Kids

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 3 September 2021

A robot-looking guide takes robot-looking children on a tour of 'Nice things' at a museum. Nice things include a hot bath, a cat asleep in sunshine and clean sheets. The children are horrified.

Museum of Nice Things

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 14 May 2021

Multiple panels outlining Scott Morrison's performance as prime minister during the pandemic. Title reads: 'Welcome to Comrade Morrison's glorious dawn of socialism!'

Comrade Morrison

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 3 April 2020

12 panels contain 12 funny stories about pets during the pandemic when their owners worked from home.

Pets of the Pandemic

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 30 March 2020

Six panels outline the devastation of the bushfires, as well as some of the positives that have come from it. Text at the bottom reads, 'Hope is unfortunately other people, and we are all we have'.

Saving the Animals

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 29 January 2020

Series of panels where Tony Abbott is in a shipping box at the 'Brexit Trade Department Offices' in the UK. He responds to word prompts from three different people.

Tony Tony Tony

First Dog on the Moon, The Guardian Australia, 4 December 2019