From today’s Pro Bono News federal budget coverage here is the Kneebone cartoon. Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison handed down the 2016 federal budget last night and this is what it looked like (not really… and I should have put in Overseas Aid as a negative peanut – read about aid CUTS here!).
Yesterday’s Pro Bono news cartoon. See the post ‘Tax Reform Now Off The Table Warns Housing NFP’ on the Pro Bono website.
Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. Yesterday Treasurer Scott Morrison spoke to the National Press club warning that it will be a slow path back to a budget surplus, and calls for spending cuts (read here). In contrast, ACOSS, Australia’s peak welfare body, says the next budget must support essential community services and ‘realign its spending priorities and strengthen the tax base’ (read the Pro Bono post here).
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Today’s Pro Bono News cartoon. Oxfam has released a report, An Economy for the 1%, showing that the gap between the world’s richest and poorest has widened in the last year. For an overview see Xavier Smerdon’s Pro Bono post ’62 People Make as Much Money as Half The World’. Oxfam Australia’s CEO Helen Szoke says ‘As a first priority, there must be an end to the dodgy tax practices and use of tax havens that allow corporations and individuals to accrue phenomenal wealth while others’ suffer’.
The cover for the June edition of Professional Planner. A weird brief! Read the cover story here.
Conexus Financial, a specialist, independently owned Australian publishing and events company, publishes Professional Planner and Investment Magazine. Here are two earlier covers with my artwork.
Australian Options is 20 years old. 
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’.
Today’s NFP Kneebone cartoon for Pro Bono, the not-for-profits on-line hub news page.
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.
The Summer edition of Australian Options is out now. ‘Discussions for Social Justice and political change’ with articles on the ACOSS Report on poverty in Australia, growth issues and alternatives, the Middle East and more.
One of the featured Australian Options articles, ‘Too Big to Gaol‘, by Evan Jones, considers the Australian financial system.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 