Outstanding Contribution to Journalism award. Influences Petty says in the foreword to Parallel Worlds that he is a humanist and Socialist, mentions visiting Nicaragua and Cuba in the early 1960s, and feeling the influence of Colin Wilson's The Outsider. Also by Charlie Perkins. Personal life Petty was first married to ABC journalist and film critic Julie Rigg. They have two sons. In 1988 he married award-winning author Kate Grenville, with whom he has a son and a daughter. He and Grenville have separated, and Petty is now partnered with the bookseller Lesley McKay. Filmography Hearts and Minds (1968) Australian History (1971) Art (1974) Leisure (1976) Magic Arts (1978) Karl Marx (1979) Megalomedia (1983) Movers (1986) Money (1998) The Mad Century (2000) Human Contraptions (2002) Global Haywire (2007) Books Australian artist in South East Asia / Bruce Petty with introduction by Ronald Searle (1962) Petty's Australia fair / Bruce Petty (1967) A portfolio of Petty / Bruce Petty (1969) The best of Petty / 1968, Ed. Ron Smith The Penguin Petty (1972, ) Petty's Australia: and how it works / Bruce Petty (1976, ) The Petty age / Bruce Petty (1978, ) Petty's money book / Bruce Petty (1983, ) Women and men / Petty (1986, ) Bruce Petty's the absurd machine / Bruce Petty (1997, ) Petty's Parallel Worlds Bruce Petty (2008, Ed. Russ Radcliffe, ) References Conversation with Bruce Petty (1972 sound recording) - interviewer, Hazel de Berg Interview with Bruce Petty, cartoonist and filmmaker (1996 sound recording) - interviewer, Ann Turner Portrait of Bruce Petty (picture) by Virginia Wallace-Crabbe Bruce Petty (I), IMDb Classroom resources Cartoon page of The Age newspaper Bruce Petty - 27 June 2004 article from The Age Three Cartoonists - transcript of Andrew Denton’s ABC interview with cartoonist Bruce Petty, Bill Leak and Patrick Cook Review of Global Haywire in The Sydney Morning Herald 1929 births Living people The New Yorker cartoonists Cartoonists from Melbourne Australian animators Australian animated film directors Australian satirists Australian editorial cartoonists Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners