Cartoons for the new DEMOCRACY booth in the exhibition hall at the Australian Labor Party ALP 50th National Conference in Adelaide 23-25 July. ‘The new DEMOCRACY Foundation is a non-partisan research, advocacy and advisory charity that promotes Citizens’ Assemblies as a more trusted way of doing democratic decision-making.’
I did cartoon caricatures of visitors to the booth during the conference, while they were introduced to the new DEMOCRACY mission.
Cartoon ideas from the Adelaide session of the Independent Review of the AUKUS Submarine Contract. More at the Australian Peace and Security Forum.
Ten years ago in South Australia as part of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission: SA citizens’ jury votes against storing nuclear waste. A demonstration of the real value of the citizen jury process. The AUKUS agreement with South Australian involvement in the building and maintenance of nuclear submarines challenges the citizen jury vote in 2016.
For a post on the 2016 Citizen’s Jury see here.
AUKUS – the incredibly expensive trilateral defense agreement between Australia, the UK, and the US, hasn’t actually given us anything. We are not consulted, have no valued voice … but then, we are very compliant … and complicit …
For more about inflatable dancers or tube men, if you are really interested in these ridiculous things, click here.
Canadian PM Mark Carney’s assertive speech at the World Economic Forum galvanizes opposition to Trump’s self serving demand for Greenland.
Cartoons for the latest issue of Australian Socialist. Issues covered include: the US playing chicken with China; Israel doesn’t go rogue – it goes by the Pentagon’s green light; Land Back, close Pine Gap – the US base in central Australia; the root causes of the war in Ukraine.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 