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What’s going on …?

December 13, 2025 – 5:29 am
Posted in communication, equality, human rights, Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged cartoon, political, social issues, woke
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The word ‘woke’ has been demeaned, disparaged and weaponized. Its original meaning needs reclaiming.

Trashing the neighbourhood …

September 16, 2025 – 10:20 am
Posted in culture, equality, future, global issues, social issues
Tagged cartoon, common ground, empathy, social issues
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Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk once said, “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage.” He preferred the word ‘sympathy’. That is an insight.

At the moment, globally , empathy doesn’t rate highly.

Empathy isn’t to be trashed. It is a skill. It helps find that small piece of common ground between widely divergent stands, a starting point …

… so NOW the narrative dissociates …

July 29, 2025 – 5:44 pm
Posted in equality, global issues, human rights
Tagged cartoon, Gaza, human rights, Israel, Palestine, political
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‘Israeli rights groups call the war on Gaza genocide for first time’

Netanyahu: ‘The IDF is the most moral army in the world’

Overreaching …

July 22, 2025 – 5:51 pm
Posted in democracy, equality, global issues, human rights, Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged cartoon, change, community, human rights, Palestine, political, social issues
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Louise Adler: The special envoy’s plan is the latest push to weaponise antisemitism in Australia, as a relentless campaign pays off.

The holiday is over …

January 8, 2025 – 2:40 pm
Posted in climate change, equality, future, global issues, human rights
Tagged cartoon, global warming, human rights, political, social issues
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Gender Equality in the Pacific (1)…

July 31, 2024 – 5:02 pm
Posted in climate change, equality, future, human rights, social issues
Tagged cartoon, Gender based violence, gender equality, Pacific community, social issues
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Graphic scribing – through Zoom -at the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women – Meeting of Pacific Women Ministers, 25th July in the Republic of the Marshall Islands convened by the Pacific Community – Progressing Gender Equality in the region.

Leading the change …

November 28, 2023 – 2:36 pm
Posted in business, communication, conference cartoons, culture, equality, human rights, social issues
Tagged cartoon, change, proactive prevention, social issues, workplace sexual harassment
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Cartoons from Best -practice leadership in proactive prevention of workplace sexual harassment, University of South Australia–Our Watch, November 24th.

The big picture – making sense of it all graphic recording at the event was created by Elise Motalli…

Long journey towards justice …

October 26, 2023 – 9:10 pm
Posted in Australian politics, community issues, democracy, equality, indigenous issues, Political cartoons
Tagged cartoon, political, social issues, The Uluru Statement, Voice referendum
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The vote in the referendum on 14th October was NO.

On 22nd October a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, community members and organisations who supported Yes released an open letter to be circulated to the Australian public and media, The Statement for our Peoples and Country.

From the statement: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are in shock and are grieving the result. We feel acutely the repudiation of our peoples and the rejection of our efforts to pursue reconciliation in good faith. That people who came to our country in only the last 235 years would reject the recognition of this continent’s First Peoples – on our sacred land which we have cared for and nurtured for more than 65,000 years – is so appalling and mean-spirited as to be utterly unbelievable a week following. It will remain unbelievable and appalling for decades to come.

‘All Australians should read this statement from Indigenous leaders, regardless of how they voted’.