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Category Archives: Australian politics

A Big Country…

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Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. There’s an election coming…

Budget in (pea)nut shell…

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From today’s Pro Bono News federal budget coverage here is the Kneebone cartoon. Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison handed down the 2016 federal budget last night and this is what it looked like (not really… and I should have put in Overseas Aid as a negative peanut – read about aid CUTS here!).

Playground for some…

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Yesterday’s Pro Bono news cartoon. See the post ‘Tax Reform Now Off The Table Warns Housing NFP’ on the Pro Bono website.

Er…nothing left to add…up

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Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. Yesterday Treasurer Scott Morrison spoke to the National Press club  warning that it will be a slow path back to a budget surplus, and calls for spending cuts (read here). In contrast, ACOSS, Australia’s peak welfare body,  says the next budget must support essential community services and ‘realign its spending priorities and strengthen the tax base’ (read the Pro Bono post here).

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Something IS stirring…

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This week’s Pro Bono News cartoon. The ideas came from Karen Mahlab’s  (founder of  Pro Bono Australia) blog post ‘The social economy – working towards the common good’. As the intro to the post says: There is a noticeable shift from purely profit-driven capitalism towards integrated social citizenship, which is happening in Australia and around the world, writes Karen Mahlab in her latest blog.

Xenophobia doesn’t stack up…

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A couple of days ago Optus took down an advertising billboard in the Sydney suburb of Casula. The sign was written in Arabic, and is part of a campaign targeting multicultural groups with a simple message “We can speak to you in your language”. Optus received a barrage of negative feedback on Facebook. Read the original news article and see the poster here. This cartoon illustrates today’s blog post on .id the population experts dispelling the myths about Australia’s Arabic speakers (read the full blog.id post here).

Not For Profit challenge for Turnbull

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Today’s Pro Bono news website cartoon. The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) has been under threat of closure by the government for many months. Social Services Minister Scott Morrison almost conceded that it will not be abolished (Morrison fudged ACNC announcement). The situation presents a great challenge to new Prime Minister Turnbull (Turnbull does not mean easy ride for Social Sector).

Thinking, not drowning…

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Australian Options is 20 years old. Options 20th Birthday pic

20 years of presenting ideas, analysis and comment; all the more essential in the present ‘are you with us or against us?’ climate.

These cartoons are from the latest issue ‘Renewing Australia’s politics’.

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Keep talking!

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Today’s Pro Bono news (the Not-For-Profit Sector online news service) NFP Kneebone cartoon. Read more about the issues between the Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs and government ministers George Brandis and Peter Dutton on the ABC news website here.