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.
Cartoons from the latest Australia Socialist Journal.
Cartoon ideas from the Adelaide session of the Independent Review of the AUKUS Submarine Contract. More at the Australian Peace and Security Forum.
‘Hello Simon–we probably talked 40 years ago when you designed the letterhead/Annual Report for Fitzroy Community Health Centre in Melbourne. I’m attaching an example of that excellent collaboration as a reminder.
I’m now involved in setting up ‘Friends of Community Health’ to resuscitate the community activism of those early times 🫤.
I’m also attaching our information sheet/hand out that needs some illustration/ lightening up.best regards, Terri Jackson (former Manager of FCHC)’
Mining giant BHP will continue to extract water from the Great Artesian Basin until at least 2036. Environmentalists and First Nations groups say a new agreement between the South Australian government and BHP…. does not do enough to end water extraction from the Great Artesian Basin.
BHP does not have a good environmental track record… here’s an example.
The International Cartoon Exhibition “Children in War 2” in Drøbak, Norway opened on June 13th.
“Children in War 2” is part of an international traveling exhibition. Organised and brought together by the dynamic Fadi Abou Hassan. Its first stop opened in Torhout, Belgium, on May 8, 2026, where it will remain on display until September 30. The Norwegian edition continues this humanitarian journey, presenting artists’ shared opposition to war and violence against children.
Here is my cartoon for the exhibition.:
The 2026 Pacific Islands Forum Women Leaders Meeting, 3-5 June, Suva Fiji: ‘Current economic shocks and escalating security and social pressures – deepening poverty, reducing jobs and increasing vulnerability, impacts which fall hardest on women, youth, children and persons with disabilities’.
I attended the meeting remotely, through Zoom. Here are some of the cartoons from the three days of presentations.
… and Paul Laris spells it out: ‘The greatest single cause of the recent rise of antisemitism in Australia is the behaviour of Israel, which the Australian Government has not condemned.’ See the full article here.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 