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Category Archives: agriculture

Pesticide found in blueberries

Cartoons for David Low, founder of the Australian Pollution Research Network. Drawn from his ideas and messages about the reckless use of pesticides, PFAS chemicals and more.

The inaugural Positive Pathways to local Rural Prosperity conference was held in Pickering Brook, Western Australia, September 17-20th 2024. Initiated by The Bank of Ideas which has been committed to ‘supporting the growth of enterprising, sustainable and vibrant small-town communities and economies’ since 1989. Here are a few of the cartoons drawn during the conference highlighting just some of the great ideas from the presentations and sessions. For more about small town reinvention and conference assets and presentations click here.

Bombarding the red fire ants

Cartoons from ideas by David Low, Australian Pesticide Reduction Network; highlighting the ‘reckless use of PFAS pesticide Fiprinol in Queensland and NSW ..’ in the fight against the red fire ant outbreak, the widespread use of the herbicide Paraquat, linked to Parkinson’s disease, and more.

Australia’s Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) ‘deserves ‘valid criticism from farmers as their main aim is to increase corporate profits from farmers, not for farmers’. Cartoons for the campaign to question the GRDC model by the Network of Concerned Farmers.

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My sister and her partner live on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.  She sketched this idea, which I drew up, to show ‘the team’: the local farmers, neighbours and firefighters  who defended their bit of the Island for 10 days during the bushfires. They will each get a copy.

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An adaption of a SA Recovery diagram for Horse SA. Visit Horse SA for information on horse health post-bushfires, land care and preparing for the next emergency:

https://www.horsesa.asn.au/noticeboard

https://www.horsesa.asn.au/horses-emergencies

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Hundreds of thousands of native fish dead: Menindee mass fish death. The Darling River, with no water flow and algal blooms, dies along with them.  Large cotton farm irrigators up river to blame? Wider mismanagement and corruption?  It’ll blow over once the smell has cleared … maybe …

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Cartoons from the Smart Water Summit, Adelaide Convention Centre, 22nd March.

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