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Category Archives: indigenous issues

Fitting in …

Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. it is NAIDOC Week.

The Voice IS going to be heard …

The newly elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised that the Labor government will commit “in full” to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which since 2017, has been calling for a First Nations voice to parliament enshrined in the constitution. To assert his voice, setting out a plan of action on the Statement, Parry Agius proposed a series of social media posts leading up to last Saturday’s federal election. We worked together on these cartoons to illustrate Parry’s thoughts.

Dreaming in the wind …

This week’s Pro Bono news cartoon. For a more positive and heartening development: Community-driven gathering pushes to decolonise Australia’s philanthropy.

Dum de dum …

The ruling Liberal National Party LNP ( a conservative coalition) has little understanding of just what the future is challenging us with… Cartoon ideas on a range of issues for the next Australian Socialist journal.

Remote areas health …

A video for the Remote Area Health Corps – Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) eLearning module. The Remote Area Health Corps (RAHC) was established in 2008 and is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health under The Indigenous Australians’ Health Programme: Stronger Futures Northern Territory to “address persistent challenges to accessing primary healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait people in the Northern Territory”.

Disingenuousness dissed …

‘Following Rio Tinto’s destruction of Juukan Gorge in 2020, a new toolkit is here to help investors better understand and protect First Nations rights and cultural sites’. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon 

In plain sight …

This week’s Pro Bono news cartoon. For more, read Only through inclusion can you make the most out of workforce diversity.

Kunmanara …

Kunmanara is a book published by the Department for Education, Government of South Australia, for use in schools in the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) Lands in the remote north west of South Australia. There are Pitjantjatjara and Yakunytjatjara language versions.

Just putting it out there …

‘Disability advocates have slammed proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme detailed in leaked draft legislation, amid fears the government plans to deny vulnerable people support and shut out the voices of advocacy groups‘. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. 

Libraries smashed and trashed …

Mining company Rio Tinto’s destruction of the Juukan Caves in the Hamersley Range, Western Australia, provoked Parry Agius of Linking Futures to develop a series of images targeting investors in mining companies. The aim is to encourage investors to consider indigenous heritage sites as libraries of knowledge, history and humanity spanning thousands of years and appeal to their moral judgement in reassessing their investment. The Juukan Caves site showed evidence of 47,000 years of human occupation. Other sites across the country show evidence of up to 60,000 years. Here are some of the images: