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Pesticide found in blueberries

Cartoons for David Low, founder of the Australian Pollution Research Network. Drawn from his ideas and messages about the reckless use of pesticides, PFAS chemicals and more.

Bombarding the red fire ants

Cartoons from ideas by David Low, Australian Pesticide Reduction Network; highlighting the ‘reckless use of PFAS pesticide Fiprinol in Queensland and NSW ..’ in the fight against the red fire ant outbreak, the widespread use of the herbicide Paraquat, linked to Parkinson’s disease, and more.

Dalal’s Story is one of 16 finalists in the World Health Organisation‘s 2024 Health for All Film FestivalCategory 2: Emergencies, Migrants and Refugees Health. The film was produced by Laundry Lane, illustrations: Simon Kneebone, animation: Santiago Dutil, edited by: Claire Cooper-Southam, sound: Alex Armour. The film was commissioned by STARTTS Refugee Support Services. A longer version combined two refugee family stories, one Yazidi and one Rohingya; see the post for Mohammed and Dalal here.

From the Film Festival: ‘The public is encouraged to choose one of the films they would like to champion and comment about its story/topic, before the end of May 2024. Comments can be posted on their social media using #Film4Health or through the posts inserted in those YouTube playlists‘.

UPDATE:

Such exciting news from Laundry Lane!  ‘Dalal’s Story’ has just been announced as the winner for the ‘Emergencies, Migrants and Refugees Health’ category in WHO’s 5th Health for All Film Festival.

… or maybe 1,000 years. How do you dismantle a nuclear submarine?

A few of the illustrations for Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living (RAIL) Research Centre, at Monash University.

Aids to maintaining independence – the example, to keep on gardening …

Working on positive pathways…

… to continue enjoying life!

Cartoon illustrating Mike Rungie’s Get busy living or get busy dying: option, published today in Aged Care Insite. ‘Older people are telling us it’s not their death that they are worried about but the years of suffering before it. Strangely, this suffering has never bothered the rest of us enough to do much about it…’

I was cartoonist at the Pacific Regional Debt Conference, April 5-8th: ‘The debt and fiscal sustainability challenges of the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) have been aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, severely reducing government revenues to finance increased government expenditures.’

Some cartoons from days 1 & 2:

… and from days 3 & 4: