Named after Stan Cross

Stan Cross

Stanley George Cross was born in the United States but was known as an Australian strip and political cartoonist who drew for Smith’s Weekly and The Herald and Weekly Times...

, the Stanley Awards, also known as The Stanleys are issued annually by the Australian Cartoonists' Association and recognise the best of Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n cartoonist

Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

s and cartooning.

The Silver Stanley award is now known as the Jim Russell Award and is awarded to a cartoonist for services to the cartooning industry.

Winners

• Gold Stanley

Awarded to the 'Cartoonist of the Year' (currently sponsored by The Herald Sun) and the past winners are:

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!bgcolor="#CCCCCC" |Cartoonist
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| 1985
| Alan Moir

Alan Moir

Alan Moir is an Australian caricaturist and cartoonist who was born in New Zealand. He has been the Editorial Cartoonist for the Sydney Morning Herald since 1984, and previously The Bulletin and Brisbane's Courier-Mail...

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| 1986
| John Spooner

John Spooner

John Spooner is an Australian illustrator and spoon maker who has regularly contributed to The Age newspaper and has also worked as a spoon maker....

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| 1987
| Bill Leak

Bill Leak

Bill Leak is a cartoonist and painter, primarily of portraits. He is the daily editorial cartoonist on The Australian newspaper. He has won the Walkley Awards nine times....

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| 1988
| Bill Leak
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| 1989
| Bill Leak
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| 1990
| Suzanne White
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| 1991
| Bill Leak
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| 1992
| Bill Leak
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| 1993
| Eric Lobbecke
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| 1994
| Bill Leak
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| 1995
| Bill Leak
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| 1996
| Bill Leak
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| 1997
| Brett Lethbridge
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| 1998
| Brett Lethbridge
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| 1999
| Joanne Brooker
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| 2000
| Sturt Krygsman
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| 2001
| James Kemsley

James Kemsley

James Lawrence Kemsley OAM was an Australian cartoonist who drew Jimmy Bancks' original creation, Ginger Meggs.-Childhood:...

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| 2002
| David Rowe
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| 2003
| Rolf Heimann

Rolf Heimann

Rolf Heimann is an Australian author, cartoonist and illustrator.Heimann was born in Dresden, Germany, fled to the West in 1955 and migrated to Australia in 1959....

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| 2004
| George Haddon
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| 2005
| Peter Broelman
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| 2006
| Mark Knight

Mark Knight (cartoonist)

Mark Knight is the editorial cartoonist for the Herald Sun, a daily tabloid in Melbourne, Australia.He created Leuk the Duck, short for Leukemia, a mascot for Challenge, a cancer foundation to provide a visual impetus for kids with cancer...

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| 2007
| David Rowe
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| 2008
| David Rowe
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| 2009
| Peter Broelman
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| 2010
| David Pope
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• Jim Russell Award

Formerly the Silver Stanley for Contribution to Australian Black & White Art, this award is made to the individual or organization who in the opinion of the ACA Board has made a significant contribution to Australian cartooning; and the past winners are:

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!bgcolor="#CCCCCC" |Year
!bgcolor="#CCCCCC" |Cartoonist
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| 1985
| Jim Russell
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| 1986
| The Bulletin

The Bulletin

The Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine that was published in Sydney from 1880 until January 2008. It was influential in Australian culture and politics from about 1890 until World War I, the period when it was identified with the "Bulletin school" of Australian literature. Its influence...

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| 1987
| John Thorby
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| 1988
| Vane Lindesay
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| 1989
| State Library of New South Wales

State Library of New South Wales

The State Library of New South Wales is a large public library owned by the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in Macquarie Street, Sydney near Shakespeare Place...

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| 1990
| James Kemsley

James Kemsley

James Lawrence Kemsley OAM was an Australian cartoonist who drew Jimmy Bancks' original creation, Ginger Meggs.-Childhood:...

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| 1991
| Dan Russell

Dan Russell (cartoonist)

Dan Russell was an Australian cartoonist. Dan's younger brother Jim Russell was also a cartoonist.-Biography:Russell was born in Millers Point, New South Wales, the son of William John "Billy" Russell, a foreman plumber with the Sydney City Council, the president of the New South Wales Plumbers’...

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| 1992
| Lindsay Foyle
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| 1993
| John Champion/Rotary

Rotary International

Rotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help...

 Club of Coffs Harbour

Coffs Harbour, New South Wales

-History:By the early 1900s, the Coffs Harbour area had become an important timber production centre. Before the opening of the North Coast Railway Line, the only way to transport large items of heavy but low value, such as timber, was by coastal shipping. This meant sawmillers on the North Coast...

 City
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| 1993
| John Champion
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| 1994
| Les Dixon

Les Dixon

Leslie "Les" Dixon , was an Australian cartoonist and commercial artist.Dixon was born Leslie Charles Brailey in Sydney, New South Wales on 25 July 1910 and adopted by Charles and Lillian Dixon when he was only six months old...

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| 1995
| Cole Buchanan
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| 1996
| Tony Rafty

Tony Rafty

Tony Rafty OAM is a Greek Australian artist. He specialises in drawing caricatures.Rafty was born in Paddington, New South Wales...

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| 1997
| L.J. Hooker

L.J. Hooker

LJ Hooker is an Australian real estate franchise, founded in 1928, currently owned by Janusz Hooker, the grandson of founder Sir Leslie Hooker and was established in 1928.-History:...

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| 1998
| Jeff Hook
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| 1999
| Roger Fletcher

Roger Fletcher

Roger Fletcher is a prolific, award-winning Australian cartoonist and illustrator. His first comic strip, Torkan first appeared in the Australian Sunday Telegraph in June 1976 and his second comic strip, Staria, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction adventure, has appeared in the pages of the...

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| 2000
| Jenny Hughes
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| 2001
| Bruce Petty

Bruce Petty

Bruce Petty is one of Australia’s best known political satirists and cartoonists. He is a regular contributor to Melbourne's The Age newspaper...

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| 2003
| William 'Weg' Green

William Ellis Green

William Ellis Green, OAM, who signed his cartoons WEG, was an Australian editorial cartoonist and illustrator who drew the Australian Football League premiers posters from 1954 until his death.-Early life:...

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| 2004
| Monty Wedd

Monty Wedd

Montague Thomas Archibald 'Monty' Wedd is an Australian comic artist, animator and author.Wedd was born in Randwick, New South Wales in 1921. As a school boy he was intructed in art by Oswald Brock...

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| 2005
| Allan 'Sols' Salisbury
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| 2006
| Paul Rigby

Paul Rigby

Paul Crispin Rigby AM , usually working under the name Rigby, was an award-winning Australian cartoonist who worked for newspapers in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States....

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| 2007
| Michael Atchison

Michael Atchison

Michael Plant Atchison O.A.M. was an Australian cartoonist who worked for the South Australian Advertiser for over 40 years....

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| 2008
| Jim Bridges
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| 2009
| Norman 'Heth' Hetherington

Norman Hetherington

Norman Frederick Hetherington OAM was an Australian artist, etcher, cartoonist , puppeteer, and puppet designer....

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| 2010
| Steve Panozzo
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• Comic Strip

Awarded to the 'Comic Strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 Artist of the Year' (currently sponsored by The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...

) and the past winners are:

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!bgcolor="#CCCCCC" |Comic Artist
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| 1985
| Gary Clark
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| 1986
| Ken Emerson

Ken Emerson

Ken Emerson was an Australian cartoonist and comic strip creator. He is best known for writing the comic strips The WarrumbunglersThe Warrumbunglers title is sometimes written with a hyphen but this is most likely a stylistic decision to fit the long title within one panel of the comic strip. and...

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| 1987
| Bill Mitchell
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| 1988
| Bill Mitchell
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| 1989
| Brian Kogler
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| 1990
| James Kemsley

James Kemsley

James Lawrence Kemsley OAM was an Australian cartoonist who drew Jimmy Bancks' original creation, Ginger Meggs.-Childhood:...

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| 1991
| Brian Kogler
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| 1992
| Brian Kogler
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| 1993
| Brian Kogler
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| 1994
| Gary Clark
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| 1995
| Gary Clark
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| 1996
| Gary Clark
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| 1997
| Gary Clark
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| 1998
| Gary Clark
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| 1999
| Gary Clark
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| 2000
| Tony Lopes
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| 2001
| Tony Lopes
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| 2002
| Gary Clark
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| 2003
| Sean Leahy

Sean Leahy

Sean Leahy is an Australian cartoonist working for the Courier Mail in Brisbane, Australia. He draws political cartoons for the paper, and also his own comic strip, Beyond the Black Stump, which is distributed in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom.-Background:In 1974, Sean Leahy...

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| 2004
| James Kemsley
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| 2005
| Tony Lopes
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| 2006
| Tony Lopes
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| 2007
| Tony Lopes
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| 2008
| Tony Lopes
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| 2009
| Gary Clark
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| 2010
| Tony Lopes
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• Single Gag

Awarded to the 'Single Cag Cartoonist

Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

 of the Year' (currently sponsored by The Courier Mail) and the past winners are:

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!bgcolor="#CCCCCC" |Year
!bgcolor="#CCCCCC" |Cartoonist
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| 1985
| Eric Jolliffe

Eric Jolliffe

Eric Jolliffe was an Australian cartoonist who contributed to The Bulletin and Smith's Weekly. He was particularly fond of "bush" subjects.-Biography:...

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| 1986
| Eric Jolliffe
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| 1987
| Matthew Martin
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| 1988
| Matthew Martin
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| 1989
| Brian Kogler
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| 1990
| Brian Kogler
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| 1991
| Brian Kogler
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| 1992
| Brian Kogler
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| 1993
| Mark Knight

Mark Knight (cartoonist)

Mark Knight is the editorial cartoonist for the Herald Sun, a daily tabloid in Melbourne, Australia.He created Leuk the Duck, short for Leukemia, a mascot for Challenge, a cancer foundation to provide a visual impetus for kids with cancer...

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| 1994
| Cathy Wilcox

Cathy Wilcox

Cathy Wilcox is an Australian cartoonist and children's book illustrator, best known for her work as a cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers. She has also twice won the Australian Children's Book Council's 'Picture Book of the Year' award...

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| 1995
| Kerry Millard
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| 1996
| Glen Le Lievre
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| 1997
| Cathy Wilcox
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| 1998
| Pat Campbell
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| 1999
| Kerry Millard
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| 2000
| Mark Lynch
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| 2001
| Matt Golding
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| 2002
| Tony Lopes
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| 2003
| Dean Alston

Dean Alston

Dean John Douglas Alston is an Australian cartoonist who joined The West Australian newspaper in 1986.Dean Alston was born in South Perth, Western Australia in 1950, and grew up in Mount Pleasant. In 1967 he started a cadetship in cartography with Western Australia's Lands and Surveys Department....

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| 2004
| Pat Campbell
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| 2005
| Matt Golding
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| 2006
| Matt Golding
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| 2007
| Matt Golding
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| 2008
| Matt Golding
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| 2009
| Matt Golding
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| 2010
| Matt Golding
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• Illustrator - sponsored by Viscopy: Anton Emdin
  Anton Emdin
  Anton Emdin is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist from Sydney, Australia.- Career :Working as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist full time since 1995, Anton has drawn for numerous magazines, including the Australian editions of Rolling Stone, FHM, Ralph, People, Penthouse, and MAD .Amongst...
  
  
• Graphic Media Artist - sponsored by Newmatilda.com: David Follett
• Caricaturist - sponsored by The Australian: John Spooner
• Political/Editorial Cartoonist - sponsored by The Sydney Morning Herald: Peter Broelman

External links

• The Stanleys - from the Australian Cartoonists' Association official website