The 2026 Pacific Islands Forum Women Leaders Meeting, 3-5 June, Suva Fiji: ‘Current economic shocks and escalating security and social pressures – deepening poverty, reducing jobs and increasing vulnerability, impacts which fall hardest on women, youth, children and persons with disabilities’.
I attended the meeting remotely, through Zoom. Here are some of the cartoons from the three days of presentations.
Australia ICOMOS, the cultural heritage professionals, celebrated its 50th anniversary in Burra South Australia , May 1-3 2026. ‘Since 1977 Australia ICOMOS has been committed to improving conservation philosophy and practice for culturally significant places’. The backdrop for the conference was the world heritage listing bid for Burra and Moonta: Australian Cornish mining sites. As the cartoons show, this was but one of a wide range of issues covered by a dynamic group.
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The 2nd National Small Town Reinvention Conference was held at Kapunda, South Australia, 22-25 September. The cartoons illustrated just some of the many moments and messages over four great days.
The conference was another Peter Kenyon of The Bank of Ideas event. Supported by many – in particular Tony Piccolo MP who brought the conference to Kapunda.
The 28 cartoons were auctioned on the last day, the money raised was donated to the painting of the Kapunda silo art project.
Day two: graphic scribing – through Zoom – at the Pacific Islands Forum Women Leaders Meeting, 26th July in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, A dialogue on how women leaders can work together to achieve the 2050 vision by mainstreaming the Revitalised Pacific Leaders Gender Equality Declaration and the Pacific Platform for Action on Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights.
Cartoons from Best -practice leadership in proactive prevention of workplace sexual harassment, University of South Australia–Our Watch, November 24th.
The big picture – making sense of it all graphic recording at the event was created by Elise Motalli…
The Sydney International Storytelling Conference, June 2-4. Israeli-born Noa Baum gave the keynote presentation on how she is working on bridging the divide between Israelis and Palestinians. Listening with heart and mind, accepting dissonance and uncertainty.
And two days of moving stories, and workshops. These conferences are wonderful treats.
And three cartoons done after the event to illustrate Caroline Welkin’s piece about the conference for Fact and Fiction Magazine.
Cartoons from Adelaide Botanic High School‘s student free staff development day, 10th March. Sessions included ‘Literacy to Thrive’, ‘Teaching and Learning Cycle’, ‘Talking to Learn’, ‘Vocabulary’ and ‘AI in Education‘.
Some of the cartoons drawn at the UNICEF -Pacific Early Childhood Development (ECD) forum, 22-25 February, Nadi, Fiji.
The first Pro Bono news cartoon for 2023.
And for a review of the last 10 years cartooning for Pro Bono – A decade of sketching the Sector.
The Power to the People Conference, a partnership between The Bank of Ideas and Community Minds, was held in Bankstown NSW, Australia, 27th & 28th October. Some cartoons from the sessions:
Day one
Day two
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 