Come and match wits with Australia's leading cartoonists, then cast a vote for your favourite cartoon and help decide who will win the annual People's Choice award.

This free exhibition celebrates Australian political cartooning and will take you on an amusing and thought-provoking journey as you look back over the crucial election year of 2007 in Australian politics.

A free travelling exhibition developed by the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, this exhibition is on display at the State Library of Tasmania, Hobart.

The stories of the year are captured in the images presented. Debates over the environment, health care, the economy and Indigenous Australia are all reflected in the works on display.

Work by cartoonists Alan Moir, Bill Leak, Cathy Wilcox, Geoff Pryor, John Spooner, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka and Warren Brown are on show.

The dominant issue for many cartoonists was leadership, whether concerning the emergence of Kevin Rudd as a possible leader, or the endgame of the relationship between John Howard and Peter Costello.

The tensions of the year were finally resolved in the federal election leaving the cartoonists to recover from another dramatic year in Australian politics.

For more information please visit http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au.