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Category Archives: community issues

With an abundance of … um …

Electorate on the Right …?

Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. Sports facilities for young women? Safety cameras for your local community? Bushfire relief funds? This government has the funds – if, according to their handy colour-coded charts, you are in a preferred electorate.

It all depends …

Some of the cartoons illustrating articles for the next two issues of The Alternative Law Journal. Topics include Aboriginal Law and Australian Law, the certification of native foods, the global warming protests, the value of wildlife, the non-disclosure culture, gaps in the law regarding students and others on work experience, and lawyers suffering vicarious trauma from their cases.

Reality just IS …

The Reality-Check Alphabet: Curiosity. Each month Sue Tomat, owner of Gumleaf Green adds to her Reality Check Alphabet on Linkedin.

It is us …

Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. Pro Bono is ‘a group of socially-minded individuals who help purpose-driven people and organisations … to grow (their) impact. We believe society is better off when there is a thriving social economy.’

If it’s not (quite) broke …

Last week’s Pro Bono news cartoon, sparked by this post: ‘It’s just horrible’: Community sector dismayed by homeless ‘tent cities’ in WA

Information: don’t change the world without it …

.id Consulting have been blogging about population demographics and economics for the past decade. ‘The goal of our blog was – and remains – to share our expertise and passion … as part of our wider mission to contribute to the good society by helping organisations make informed decisions.’ Most of the blog posts have had a cartoon comment. You can read their 10 year celebration blog here.

Getting somewhere …

“Maybe We’ll Get Somewhere”: “Fast Car” and the place of Folk Music, by Noah Berlatsky, a new article on the Culturico website.

Take a breather …

This week’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

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.