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Category Archives: community issues

Dog and Cat System Visual  Citizens Jury 2015

A Citizen’s Jury was called by the South Australian Government to look at how to reduce the number of unwanted pets that are put down each year. The Jury’s recommendations were summarised in this diagram.

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‘A Commonwealth takeover of vocational education would lead to full privatisation’ says Australian Education Union Federal TAFE (Technical And Further Education) secretary Pat Forward in the latest AEU Journal (SA Branch). This cartoon illustrates the article.

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Today’s Pro Bono News cartoon. For more background see the post ‘Asylum Seeker Workers to Ignore New Laws‘.

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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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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.

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The Pro Bono News Kneebone cartoon.The UK CEO of social enterprise giant The Big Issue has warned delegates to a Melbourne disability employment conference to be wary of the personalised care model to be introduced under the National Disability Insurance Scheme. – read the full article here.

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Here is an interview about this cartoon:

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-cartoon-that-sums-up-the-worlds-migrant-crisis–g12atJpSWZ

The cartoon first appeared in Australian Options magazine – discussions for social justice and political change – which is celebrating its 20th year of publication! I have drawn cartoons for every issue.

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Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon following this week’s Four Corners (ABC TV) investigation into the payday loans industry. Read more on the Pro Bono website here.

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Butterfly in the Cocoon is a collection of six stories of domestic violence, a project of the Vietnamese Community in Australia (South Australian chapter). ‘The stories identify issues around gender stereotyping and the misuse of power and control in these families… Each of these women is like a butterfly in a cocoon, they are unique, beautiful and precious’.Cover design FINAL