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Um…

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The March New Internationalist Scratchy Lines cartoon. Visit the Australian New Internationalist site for the blogs, shop and more here.

They ARE taking it with them…

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Today’s Pro Bono News cartoon. Oxfam has released a report, An Economy for the 1%, showing that the gap between the world’s richest and poorest has widened in the last year. For an overview see Xavier Smerdon’s Pro Bono post ’62 People Make as Much Money as Half The World’. Oxfam Australia’s CEO Helen Szoke says ‘As a first priority, there must be an end to the dodgy tax practices and use of tax havens that allow corporations and individuals to accrue phenomenal wealth while others’ suffer’.

Issues…

Social classes p26

 

Sustainability p21

 

Gender equality p37

 

There are three cartoonists involved in illustrating a number of articles in each UK published Issues series resource book for high school students – all Australians: Don Hatcher, Angelo Madrid and me. Above are three examples of mine from the latest set of books.

Independence Educational Publishers, Cambridge UK, produce 6 new resource books in their Issues series, three times a year. Aimed at 14- to 18-year-olds, each book gathers a wide range of information on an important social issue. Titles in the latest set,released this month, are Global Tourism, Gender Equality, Sustainability, Social Class, Discussing Crime and Our Changing Population.

 

Gravy train riding a tidal wave!

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Illustrating an article by researcher Sarah Russell in this weekend’s The Age newspaper. Read the complete article here.

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).

Make your own!

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‘Australians foresee a future where their society is more skilled but less friendly and moral, Queensland University of Technology research has found.’ Read the Pro Bono post: Gloomy Aussie Outlook Forecasts Unfriendly Future. This is the latest Pro Bono news cartoon.

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).

Tree

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The Scratchy Lines cartoon in the September issue of New Internationalist – out now!

The Big Story in this issue is Syria. The article Singing in the kingdom of silence gives a glimpse of the ‘flood of artistic and intellectual creativity’ that followed the revolution, including examples of graphics and cartoons. The article explains it’s title: there was a singer called Ibrahim Qualoush… (get the magazine to read more).

Visit the Australian New Internationalist website here, and also check out their shop.

Whose Freedom?

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