Australia’s Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) ‘deserves ‘valid criticism from farmers as their main aim is to increase corporate profits from farmers, not for farmers’. Cartoons for the campaign to question the GRDC model by the Network of Concerned Farmers.
My sister and her partner live on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. She sketched this idea, which I drew up, to show ‘the team’: the local farmers, neighbours and firefighters who defended their bit of the Island for 10 days during the bushfires. They will each get a copy.
Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.
Cartoon for Pro Bono news. Winter has been and already some inland towns are running out of water. Water is trucked in at great expense. Water catchments for cities are low. In a vacuum of inaction two foundations have stepped in: Philanthropy Centre announced to tackle Australia’s freshwater crisis
And read about Menindee here.
Hundreds of thousands of native fish dead: Menindee mass fish death. The Darling River, with no water flow and algal blooms, dies along with them. Large cotton farm irrigators up river to blame? Wider mismanagement and corruption? It’ll blow over once the smell has cleared … maybe …
A series of safety posters for Horse SA. Final design work by Neumotion (Mick Kneebone).
Edible Adelaide poster illustrating Natural Resources Adelaide & Mount Lofty Ranges’ Edible Adelaide report – ‘cultivating a shared vision for a more edible Greater Adelaide‘. There are links to the report and an A4 300dpi file of the poster on that page. More background on the development of the report is on the Sustainable Communities South Australia Inc site here.
A community exhibition to mark one year on after the devastating Sampson Flat bushfire here in South Australia was held earlier this year. A number of community organisations were involved. The Red Cross section featured feedback and comments from interviews with the community affected by the bushfire by local Jeff Ayers in the weeks following the event . Here are some of the cartoon posters, based on the interviews, from the display.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 