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Category Archives: community issues

It’s a bird, it’s a plane …it’s a life saver

Brian Lim and his small team at Wise Networking have been innovating an air-deployable mobile cell network solution – a miniature mobile phone tower that can be air dropped into a disaster area to quickly restore mobile coverage. Each miniature tower sits within its ‘Gyrochute’ which gently drops the tower to the ground. Read the full story featured in this month’s International Fire Fighter Magazine, pages 84-86, and watch the prototype Gyrochute in action here. These are some of the drawings to help explain the concept and its potential.

Being well ….

‘It’s a no-brainer, momentum grows for Victoria to deliver a wellbeing budget‘ (Pro Bono news post) -New Zealand delivered a wellbeing budget in May last year – it is thought that the approach would help social recovery after COVID-19. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

Learning more …

Listening and scribbling at the University of NSW, Learning and Teaching forum – Learning without limits: leading the change, virtual forum, 19 & 20 November. Some of the cartoons here, and you can see all of the cartoons drawn and posted during the forum on the Padlet .

Court out …

Robodebt was a policy fiasco… and The decision to settle the class action before it was heard in court … a missed opportunity to … obtain a legal precedent to prevent a similar scheme in the future. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

Bagged …

Today’s cartoon for Pro Bono news.

Trusted…!

Despite headlines claiming a crisis of confidence in charities and not-for-profits, there is no evidence for a global trust crisis in the not-for-profit sector. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

Jobbed ….

Australia’s 2020 federal budget. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

Definitely not broke …

Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

We Care, for less ….

‘Disability advocates fear the introduction of independent assessments in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a cost cutting measure to reduce the number of people in the program, despite the government’s insistence the change will make the eligibility process simpler and fairer.’ Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. 

The Future starts NOW …

Last week’s Pro Bono news cartoon came together after reading Moira Were’s ‘End of the Nest Egg?’, posted on Linkedin.