The ‘dog’s breakfast’ that is 2020 showcased in annual Behind the Lines cartoon exhibition

Each year, the Behind the Lines political cartoon exhibition offers up a neat satirical summary of events.

But 2020 has been like no other year.

For cartoonists, it has presented a challenge: how to reflect the turmoil of politics amid some of the most extraordinary events in modern history?

Traumatic bushfires, a devastating global pandemic, and the country’s leaders at loggerheads over how to handle these unprecedented circumstances.

And given the number of occasions on which it was hard to know whether to cry or laugh, perhaps the cartoon is a suitable medium by which to understand it all better.

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust a number of industries into the spotlight — notably that of aged care, a sector ravaged by a disease that…