

Our bits, harvested, repackaged and sold back to us… without the heart.



Our bits, harvested, repackaged and sold back to us… without the heart.


The 2026 Pacific Islands Forum Women Leaders Meeting, 3-5 June, Suva Fiji: ‘Current economic shocks and escalating security and social pressures – deepening poverty, reducing jobs and increasing vulnerability, impacts which fall hardest on women, youth, children and persons with disabilities’.
I attended the meeting remotely, through Zoom. Here are some of the cartoons from the three days of presentations.
























Le pouvoir caché de la pensée systèmes – Gouverner dans l’urgence climatique – The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking – Governing in the Climate Emergency.
The 2020 book by Ray Ison and Ed Straw has just been translated into French by Houda Khayame. This meant that the 27 diagrams and illustrations that I had developed with Ray Ison needed to be translated and the French words and text integrated into the originals. Alas, my schoolboy French … but a number of translation sites were so helpful.
One of the group, Franck Varenne acknowledged the team involved with the French version.










The barely relevant Liberal National Party LNP (or should it be NLP?) has decided to abandon the bipartisan Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions policy: the market will drive energy policy, bring down emissions – and prices …really??


