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Category Archives: disability issues

Overqualified …

We know best – today’s Pro Bono News cartoon.

Torture ISN’T Rights …

Cartoon illustrations for Queensland Advocacy for Inclusion‘s guide to the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture. Two earlier QAI illustrated guides can be seen here.

It’s no bubble bath …

Independence Educational Publishers are “Cambridge-based educational publishers of books and online resources that tackle important social issues. Our products present accessible information on topics such as drugs, relationship abuse, racial discrimination, poverty, and many more.” These are some of the cartoon illustrations from their latest set of books on Alcohol Addiction, National Health, Housing, Disability, Pregnancy and Teen Self-care.

Um, HELLO …

Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

Virtual Reality is real ….

Virtual Reality experiences for people in aged care homes. Some simple images to help explain the safety and care instructions for a project being developed by The Ageing Revolution in collaboration with AgeTech, ‘Ageing is the problem. In-house Innovation is our solution’.

Rollout goes queue-less …

As Australia enters its eighth week of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, thousands of the nation’s most vulnerable are still waiting for their first dose. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

Just putting it out there …

‘Disability advocates have slammed proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme detailed in leaked draft legislation, amid fears the government plans to deny vulnerable people support and shut out the voices of advocacy groups‘. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. 

Governmentia …?

The Aged Care Royal Commission’s final report has been released by the Federal Government. Stephen Duckett and Anika Stobart write ‘…the commissioners diverged on a number of large and some smaller recommendations. This makes the already complex path to reform even more confusing. It reduces the power of the final report. More disappointingly, it gives the government room to pick and choose recommendations as the cabinet likes.’ Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

We Care, for less ….

‘Disability advocates fear the introduction of independent assessments in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a cost cutting measure to reduce the number of people in the program, despite the government’s insistence the change will make the eligibility process simpler and fairer.’ Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. 

We All have them …

Some pages from an easy-English booklet produced by Queensland Advocacy to assist people with an intellectual disability understand the new Queensland Human Rights Act.