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Ahab …

Painting the city green …

The threats to the Adelaide Park Lands continue, despite LIV Golf collapsing ( LIV Golf was the prime reason for the massive and destructive North Adelaide Golf Course redevelopment) and many Moto GP enthusiasts thinking the original Phillip Island circuit would still be better than the proposed Adelaide city/Park Lands circuit. As well, the Malinauskas Government is demanding contractors on these projects highlight their green-washing credentials. The government’s Adelaide Park Lands Nature Positive Package has been heavily criticized.

Greenfielding …

The erosion and appropriation of Adelaide’s park lands continues…

If not consensus …

Some of the cartoons drawn during the Local Government Association (LGA) 2026 Climate Practitioners Network Forum – Building Consensus, in the Sanctuary, Adelaide Zoo, 30th September.

And more …

Hell is business …

‘Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, and the resulting decimated healthcare system in the Palestinian enclave, has led to around 6,000 amputations since the war began, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Around a quarter of the cases are children, making the war in Gaza the largest source of child amputees in modern history, according to the United Nations.’

Body Bags of Bits …?

Our bits, harvested, repackaged and sold back to us… without the heart.

We’re cooking …

Three degrees of global warming? No time to waste…

Meanwhile …

Ferrari dreaming …

In his submission to the Public Inquiry into AUKUS, former submariner and former senator Rex Patrick threaded a story throughout equating AUKUS with buying a Ferrari. Russell Rollason, secretary of the Australian Peace and Security Forum, one of the organizations supporting the Inquiry, thought the story might make a cartoon. This is my attempt, simplified…

And simplified even more, into a single picture …

To sum it up, Russell Rollason’s AUKUS impression drawn up….

Papered over …

Cartoon ideas from an opinion piece by John Bridgland continuing his exploration of the South Australian government exploitation of Adelaide’s 189-year-old park lands estate. Transparency campaigner and former SA senator Rex Patrick exposes the cozy relationship between Premier Malinauskas and the daily News Corp (Murdoch) newspaper The Advertiser …

Renew Democracy …

Cartoons for the new DEMOCRACY booth in the exhibition hall at the Australian Labor Party ALP 50th National Conference in Adelaide 23-25 July. ‘The new DEMOCRACY Foundation is a non-partisan research, advocacy and advisory charity that promotes Citizens’ Assemblies as a more trusted way of doing democratic decision-making.’

I did cartoon caricatures of visitors to the booth during the conference, while they were introduced to the new DEMOCRACY mission.