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Illustration: Ron Tandberg

Best of Fairfax cartoons June 29

Fairfax Media's talented team of artists, illustrators and cartoonists give us their very own humorous version of the news of the day.

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

Best of Fairfax cartoons, June 17

Fairfax Media's talented team of artists, illustrators and cartoonists give us their very own humorous version of the news of the day.

Illustration Jim Pavlidis

Best of Fairfax cartoons, June 24

Fairfax Media's talented team of artists, illustrators and cartoonists give us their very own humorous version of the news of the day.

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

Best of Fairfax cartoons June 23

Fairfax Media's talented team of artists, illustrators and cartoonists give us their very own humorous version of the news of the day.

Illustration John Shakespeare

Best of Fairfax cartoons June 22

Fairfax Media's talented team of artists, illustrators and cartoonists give us their very own humorous version of the news of the day.

Circuz Oz dressed rehearsal. 21 June 2017. The Age News. Photo: Eddie Jim. Rob Tannion (centre) artistic director.

Circus Oz ablaze at Birrarung Marr

Circus Oz returns to Melbourne with its first original production from new Artistic Director Rob Tannion. It promises enormous safety pins and clothes pegs props, and a Spanish violinist (acrobatically-speaking). Photographer Eddie Jim got in on the act at a full dress rehearsal for their show Model Citizens from 20 June - 16 July under the heated top at Birrarung Marr.

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Best of Fairfax cartoons June 21

Fairfax Media's talented team of artists, illustrators and cartoonists give us their very own humorous version of the news of the day.

Thousands of construction, energy and plumbing workers descended on the Victorian Trades Hall Council in Carlton at ...

The CMFEU-led rally in Melbourne's CBD

Thousands of construction, energy and plumbing workers descended on the Victorian Trades Hall Council in Carlton at 10.30am, 20 June 2017 flooding Lygon Street. Pictures Jason South.

Cathy Wilcox

Best of Fairfax cartoons June 20

Fairfax Media's talented team of artists, illustrators and cartoonists give us their very own humorous version of the news of the day.

The Great Barrier Reef 2016. Divers look at fish life and coral on Flynn Reef off the coast of Cairns. 2nd November ...

World looks South at Saving The Reef

Jason South's striking images from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age’s ‘Saving the Reef‘ multimedia project won a major international award for Excellence in Journalistic Innovation from The Society of Publishers in Asia in Hong Kong.

Ako Kondo performs as Princess Aurora.

Sleeping Beauty

Dress rehearsal of David McAllister's production of The Sleeping Beauty in Melbourne. The Australian Ballet's production of The Sleeping Beauty tours to Melbourne and Sydney in 2017.

Artwork called Inflatable Refugee, pictured on the Yarra River on Saturday, is touring the globe to highlight the plight ...

Inflatable Refugee

The enormous travelling artwork Inflatable Refugee arrived in Melbourne today as part of a worldwide tour highlighting the global refugee crisis. The five metre-high work depicting a crouched figure was created by Belgian artists collective Schellekens & Peleman, constructed of the same material as boats that carry refugees across the Mediterranean Sea.

Smoke billows from a high-rise apartment building in west London Wednesday, June 14, 2017. A massive fire raced through ...

Grenfell Tower block inferno, London

Thirty people are in hospital and there are fears that more may be unaccounted for after a huge fire raged through the night at a west London tower block. Firefighters are still tackling the blaze at Grenfell Tower in north Kensington, where hundreds of people are thought to live.