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Category Archives: economics

Sheep without wool

Cleanskin sheep are ideal easy-care meat sheep for new farmers.  A new website provides basic information about keeping these wool-less breeds of sheep. To visit Cleanskin Sheep Information click here.

In a world where, although it appears economical to jet Canadian pork around the world to Australia, for example, there is a growing movement for promoting – and celebrating – local produce; the sharing of this sort of information is valuable.

And it is about all food, not only meat, of course.

The website also gives an opportunity for cartoons to help highlight some of the issues – and give sheep a voice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Managing?

The Australian Government plans to introduce an income management card – called the Basics Card – to a number of low-income areas. The intervention in the Northern Territory in 2007  included income management  imposed on Aboriginal communities. Income management quarantines a proportion of welfare recipients’ benefits, through a card, which can only be spent on essentials.

This cartoon illustrates some of the concerns about the scheme, as presented in an article on the Pro Bono website news page. To read the article click here.

Secrets of cartooning: it’s easier to draw than do….

The June New Internationalist is out now. Buy it. Here is this month’s Scratchy Lines cartoon:

 

Cost of living…

A poll of  over 1700 clients by The Salvation Army showed that more than half  have gone without meals to pay for other basic necessities.  This is in Australia, a wealthy country…

2012 Australian Federal Budget

This is my cartoon comment on the 2012 Federal Budget, published on the Pro Bono website. To go to the website page, click here.

The look of the cartoon is a bit different as it is my first serious attempt at drawing on an iPad, with finger and stylus. I was away from my office, computer, scanner etc this week – so it was a good test.

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Euro saved?

The Scratchy Lines cartoon from the April New Internationalist

Alien Rescue!

Water on the Moon!   Water on Mars!   Earth-like planets out there!

As this planet fails to meet our expectations some of us seem to be comforted by the idea that we could ‘trade up’, move on to something a little better.

I don’t think they intend taking all of us with them of course.

The cheaper option is to find some alien life out there that in some way could rescue us … from ourselves.

Here is the current New Internationalist cartoon:

 

 

More roughs…

Some more rough drafts from the ‘not chosen’ folder – before their issues become old history (if only!).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Occupy the planet!

The January/February issue of New Internationalist  is in the newsagents.

Here is my  Scratchy Lines cartoon, which appears on the Letters page:

Are economists rocket scientists?

The latest issue of Australian Options is out. To subscribe click here.

Below is a cartoon drawn to illustrate one of the articles in this issue: ‘Policy in the wake of the banking crisis: taking pluralism seriously’ by Sheila Dow.

As the article states ‘There is a limit to how far economists can understand a complex reality, far less predict the future. But fostering a range of perspectives and analytical methods would make economics much more robust in the face of unexpected developments …’