Bill Leak (born 1956) is the daily editorial cartoonist on The Australian newspaper. He also paints portraits. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Australian (informally referred to as The Oz) is a national daily broadsheet newspaper published by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ...

Bill's credits include 1997 and 2002 Walkley awards.

He has entered the Archibald Prize at least 13 times, and was hung 11 times. These included portraits of Donald Bradman in 1989, Malcolm Turnbull in 1994, Graham Richardson in 1995, Tex Perkins in 1997, Gough Whitlam in 1998, Sir Les Patterson in 2000 and Robert Hughes in 2001. He won the Packing Room prize twice (for Tex Perkins and Sir Les Patterson) and also won the peoples choice award for Malcolm Turnbull. In addition two paintings of him by other artists have also won the peoples choice award: a painting by Josonia Palaitis in 1995, and one by Esther Erlich in 2000. Marcus Willss winning painting in 2006, The Paul Juraszek Monolith, was based on this print by an earlier Marcus, Marcus Gheeraerts The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize, and is the most prominent of all arts prizes, in Australia. ... Sir Donald George Bradman, AC (August 27, 1908 — February 25, 2001), often called The Don, was an Australian cricketer who is universally regarded as the greatest batsman of all time, and is one of Australias most popular sporting heroes. ... Malcolm Turnbull Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954), Australian politician, was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in October 2004 for the Division of Wentworth, New South Wales, representing the Liberal Party. ... Graham Richardson (born September 27, 1949, in Sydney, Australia) is a former Labor politician who was a numbers man for the right wing of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party. ... Tex Perkins (born Greg Perkins in 1966) is an Australian singer-songwriter, who is widely known for fronting the popular Australian rock-band The Cruel Sea, but has also performed with the Beasts of Bourbon, Thug, James Baker Experience, The Butcher Shop, Salamander Jim, and Tex, Don and Charlie. ... Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC (born 11 July 1916), always known as Gough Whitlam (, pronounced like Goff), Australian politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia, was the only Australian Prime Minister to be dismissed by the Governor-General. ... Sir Les Patterson is a fictional character portrayed by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries. ... Robert Hughes may be a reference to Robert Hughes (UK politician) (born 1932), British Labour politician, MP for Aberdeen North Robert Hughes (Australian actor) (born 1948), whose roles include ABBA: The Movie and sitcom Hey Dad Robert Hughes (critic) (born 1938), Australian art critic, writer and broadcaster Robert Gurth Hughes... Josonia Palaitis is an Australian artist living in Sydney, Australia. ...

He was interviewed in the 2005 Peter Berner documentary about the Archibald Prize called Loaded Brush. Peter Berner, Australian comedian. ...

References

• Portrait of Bill taking a Leak on yer moms face, editorial cartoonist, 1984 / Terry Mulligan

External links

• 1997 Walkely Award - Bill Leak for 'The Big Picture'
• 2002 Walkley Award - Bill Leak for 'Brown Nose Day'
• Three Cartoonists - transcript of Andrew Denton’s ABC interview with cartoonist Bruce Petty, Bill Leak and Patrick Cook
• Drawing and quartering our pollies - Article includes comments by Bill Leak on his cartooning and the reactions he gets