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Croquembouche Lad has lost a couple of mates at the Melbourne Cup. He's not too happy about it
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It's First Dog on the Moon's handy Melbourne Cup sweep animals as entertainment form guide
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Too many asylum seekers on boats? Try the Australian solution. It works!
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First Dog: When Brenda the civil disobedience penguin stumbles across some naughty messages, what she learns could bring down the government
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First Dog on the Moon shares some of his early, unpublished work with the Guardian Australia multimedia team. There are curious teen pizzas and sea cucumbers with appalling habits, and of course, early renditions of the Dog himself
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First Dog: When a carrot tries to enter parliament in a questionable outfit, he finds out the hard way who's allowed to be racist in the nation's capital
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International forces touted the Gizab's uprising against the Taliban as a success story of civil courage and a milestone in the decade-long war – but now the district is about to fall back under the control of the insurgents
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First Dog on the Moon talks us through his cartoon on mine-detecting rats
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The mine-detecting rats of Mozambique will save us all!
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A US airdrop of arms to besieged Kurds in Kobani appears to have missed its target and ended up in the hands of Islamic State (Isis) militants
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The Ebola outbreak continues in west Africa, but its effect on western countries is not as great as many in the media imply
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Joe Hockey was asked by a BBC journalist about Australia's considerable carbon output. The truth is out there ...
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Zainullah is a Hazara man who came to Australia from Afghanistan. He was forcibly sent back to the country he was desperate to escape
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Guardian Australia's resident marsupial cartoonist First Dog on the Moon guides us through his process of coming up with the cartoons we know and love
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It would be easy to surrender and slip under the waves – but each day brings its own battles, and there's work to be done
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The west won't stop Ebola until a sufficiently large awareness-raising campaign is launched. It's time to infect a minor celebrity, says First Dog on the Moon
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The government announced that visitors with 'face coverings' had to sit with schoolchildren if visiting parliament – and then backtracked. There's a word for that ...
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More than half of global wildlife populations have declined since 1970. Beware of the ghosts
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President Barack Obama has said that US intelligence agencies underestimated Isis activity inside Syria, while overestimating the ability of the Iraqi army to fight such militant groups
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When children are assaulted on Nauru it is a matter for Australian law, whatever Scott Morrison says
Richard Ackland: The immigration minister’s fevered attempt to shred the rule of law is coming into conflict with legal norms that say states cannot abandon their responsibilities -
Van Badham: Feminism is a broad church, but it has always been about the self-actualisation of women. So what’s the endgame for female politicians who are explicitly anti-feminist?
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IndigenousX: I hope for real acknowledgement of Yolngu Rom (Law) so my people can be empowered in the same way as Balanda (mainstream Australians)
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Antony Loewenstein: I’ve hesitated to write about gender, worried that I’ll be slammed for daring to speak out. But we all benefit from gender equality, and therefore must give feminism some tough love
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Paul Daley: Indigenous people who’ve participated in conflicts involving Australia are not about to win a specific monument on the grounds of the war memorial any time soon – a real shame
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Barry Spurr’s ‘whimsical games’ are set to go a lot further as his court action against New Matilda continues
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Paul Daley: Tony Abbott sees the arrival of the first fleet as Australia’s defining moment. Other Australians disagree: they want it to be archaeological evidence of the first people 52,000 years ago
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Antony Loewenstein: Shirtfronting, Islamaphobia and sweeping national security laws all point to a political culture that’s growing increasingly more extreme
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Van Badham and Ben Eltham: Are Australian students not escalating protest because they don’t know how bad their situation will be? Perhaps they don’t realise how influential they can be
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IndigenousX: The government and mining companies need to know that we are going to fight to protect it, for future generations both black and white
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Antony Loewenstein: With a hugely expanding commercial market with potential clients in mining, infrastructure or even surf-life saving groups, the drone industry brings with it crucial ethical issues
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Van Badham: I was reluctant to try medication, and it once granted me much-needed relief from depression. But of course, there is no such thing as a ‘one size fit all’ approach to mental health
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Richard Ackland: Victoria, Queensland and the Commonwealth have decided to dish out the letters patent and appoint Queen’s counsel again. It’s a cringe worthy of our current monarchist moment
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Richard Ackland: Muslim women wearing the niqab or burqa were to be made to sit in a glass enclosure in Australia’s parliament house. That’s the latest episode in two months of anti-terror theatre
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Antony Loewenstein: The young converts who join Isis are inexperienced in the complexities of Islam; so are the instant experts and reporters who write about them. We learn about faith by taking time
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Douglas Alexander and Ed Balls: This Brussels meeting is real test for Tory ministers: they must secure a coalition of countries and a fairer deal for Britain
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Philip Hoare: There’s a worrying blur between lobbying and enforcement that’s at its most extreme with animals: police should enforce law, not charities
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Niki Adams: If progress is to be made now an amendment to the modern slavery bill has been defeated, MPs must invite us into the discussion
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Srecko Horvat: For Syriza in Greece, Podemos in Spain or Slovenia’s United Left, power is a real possibility: if they survive the long march through the institutions
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Jessica Valenti: Record numbers don’t matter if the party is still targeting women’s rights – and if elected women are still throwing their own gender under the bus
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Patrick Strudwick: Rose McGowan is right that the gay rights movement has tended to ignore women. But sexism is everywhere – the bulk of the hate comes from heterosexuals
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Melvyn Bragg has said that more people are involved with the arts than that watch the Premier League, and urged the BBC to put on more arts programming. Do you agree?
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Brian Smith: Brittany Maynard’s heroic choice is exactly the kind my family should have had. And that’s exactly why we need assisted dying laws across the world – so our loved ones can truly rest in peace
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Anne Perkins: Medical staff are used to their resources being endlessly eroded – no wonder they resist change that seems to put money before patients
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Lord Falconer argues that the bill would relieve enormous suffering while Giles Fraser says he has a 'tin ear to the complexity' of the matter
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Dan Snow: The lack of a secular presence at the Cenotaph could diminish its importance for modern Britons – and they could forget
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Richard Murphy: Executives claim they’re acting in shareholders’ interests, yet aggressive avoidance harms a company and all its stakeholders
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Seumas Milne: The crisis is polarising politics from Ireland to Spain, and Labour will sink unless it offers a real alternative
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Too many asylum seekers? Try the Australian solution. It works!
See the main cartoon here
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When Brenda the civil disobedience penguin stumbles across some naughty messages, what she learns could bring down the government
Dear Bill Shorten: you're the opposition leader, not me. It's time to drop your soft bipartisanship
Lez miserable: I came out in a country town, and everything changed in an instant
Australia's racist constitution is a stain on our country. Do we care enough to change it?
If Gough Whitlam was a saint at home, he was often a sinner abroad
Aboriginal people must not negotiate with politicians who assault their land rights
Republicans didn't win as big as you think they did. And Obama didn't lose