Adelaide City Council’s Splash Adelaide has been putting on Summer Fridays in the East End – food, music, entertainment, stalls – and street art. Last Friday the street art was me painting the scene.
At either end of the event are archways, relics of the old East End Markets – fortunately for my painting.
Australian Options is a quarterly journal ‘which aims to challenge the ideas dominating Australian mainstream debate’. Major articles are by ‘activists and progressive thinkers on contemporary political, social and cultural issues’. It is now heading into its 19th year of publication – and of my ‘cartoon commentary’ illustrating many of the articles. Here are some from the last couple of issues.
A whiteboard style animation for the Class Teaching website explaining the value of their eJournal for teachers and school leaders.
‘Prime Minister Tony Abbott has placed the abolition of the charity regulator, the ACNC (Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission) on the top of his repeal day hit list describing the process as the biggest bonfire of regulations in the country’s history’ writes the Pro Bono news website post ACNC In Repeal Day Bonfire. Social Services minister Kevin Andrews has introduced a Two-stage Plan to Abolish ACNC, removing ‘unnecessary regulatory control’ and directing the sector to ‘self-manage’.
9500 other ‘unproductive regulations’ are also to be abolished. Hey, who needs government?
It was easy to become a Foodhero at WOMAD over the weekend – by having your Foodhero photo taken. The unisex superhero character was drawn up for Oxfam Australia’s stall promoting their Our Food System is Broken campaign.
Rapid appraisal of emerging issues in the oil palm sector in Palawan Island (The Philippines): Environment, livelihoods and corporate accountability, was a scoping report produced by a collaboration between Palawan State University and the Stockholm Environment Institute. It aimed ‘to feed the ‘rich picture’ that emerges from the preliminary results back to people in Palawan’.
As part of the feeding back the results these three diagrams were developed to be used in presentations. There was a lot of ‘rich picture’ to juggle onto each page.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 