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We All have them …

June 18, 2020 – 11:06 am
Posted in communication, community issues, disability, disability issues, Education, human rights, Information, social issues
Tagged cartoon illustrations, disability, easy English, human rights
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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.

We are all connected ….

June 15, 2020 – 1:08 pm
Posted in climate change, community issues, Education, Environment, Information, local government, social issues
Tagged animation, community, complexity science, sustainable suburbs, urban greening, video
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Complexity Science explained, a video for Greening Marion: ‘a trial project using a new, collaborative approach to help people work together for greener, cooler and more sustainable suburbs.’ Written by Catie Payne. Background music: Tom Kneebone.

Latest Issues ….

April 13, 2020 – 12:32 pm
Posted in community issues, Education, illustration, Information, youth
Tagged cartoon, education, illustration, Issues
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Independence Educational Publishers (UK) publish Issues ‘a unique series of cross-curricular resource books for 14- to 18-year-olds. The series explores contemporary social issues, stimulating debate and critical thinking among readers of all levels.‘ As well as other illustrations each book has a number of cartoons specially drawn by cartoonists Angelo Madrid, Don Hatcher and myself. The latest books in the series are Euthanasia, Population Change, The Gender Equality Debate, Crime in the UK, Discussing Abortion and Tourism Today … this last book a little ironic considering the present state of things. A few of my cartoons…

…from Discussing Abortion

…from The Gender Equality Debate

…from Euthanasia

…from Tourism Today

…from Crime in the UK

Ready to Read…

October 29, 2019 – 3:44 pm
Posted in Education, illustration, youth
Tagged illustration, learning to read
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Sample illustrations for learning to read books, High performance Learning, Unit 1, books 1&2.

Don’t let go…

October 10, 2019 – 11:42 am
Posted in communication, community issues, Education, illustration, Information, social issues
Tagged cartoon, critical thinking, education, illustration, information
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Illustration for a new article posted on the CULTURICO blog, Critical thinking in education, ‘…with an increasing volume of communication present in everyday life there is a greater need to critically examine this overwhelming amount of information.’

Tornadoes, Treadmills and Time…

May 22, 2019 – 1:23 pm
Posted in Education, illustration
Tagged illustration, time management, work treadmill
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Illustrations for a forthcoming book on time management for academics by Associate Professor Kate Ames, CQ University, Queensland.

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Reality – it’s out there….

April 2, 2019 – 4:34 pm
Posted in Education, facilitation, Information, social issues
Tagged cartoon, delusional, independent thinking, observing, relistic, relity, survival skill, thinking
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Unrealistic ‘sheeple‘, a reality check from Sue Tomat, GumLeafGreen. See the other reality checks – and more – here.

Ready or not …

November 1, 2018 – 12:11 am
Posted in childhood, community issues, Education, not for profit, poverty, social issues
Tagged cartoons, Change Fest, children, Make a difference, potential
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Cartoons for the Change Fest community policy document ‘Grow Australia‘ – leading up to the Change Fest Conference in Brisbane later in November. ‘… the best place to put the effort is with kids. Putting the effort in early makes the difference to last a lifetime‘.