
This month’s New Internationalist cartoon. Click here for the Australian New Internationalist blog and shop!

This month’s New Internationalist cartoon. Click here for the Australian New Internationalist blog and shop!

June issue of New Internationalist – the Scratchy Lines cartoon. Visit the Australian New Internationalist site with blog and shop here.

This month’s New Internationalist magazine Scratchy Lines cartoon.

The March New Internationalist Scratchy Lines cartoon. Visit the Australian New Internationalist site for the blogs, shop and more here.

Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. Yesterday Treasurer Scott Morrison spoke to the National Press club warning that it will be a slow path back to a budget surplus, and calls for spending cuts (read here). In contrast, ACOSS, Australia’s peak welfare body, says the next budget must support essential community services and ‘realign its spending priorities and strengthen the tax base’ (read the Pro Bono post here).
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Today’s Pro Bono News cartoon. Oxfam has released a report, An Economy for the 1%, showing that the gap between the world’s richest and poorest has widened in the last year. For an overview see Xavier Smerdon’s Pro Bono post ’62 People Make as Much Money as Half The World’. Oxfam Australia’s CEO Helen Szoke says ‘As a first priority, there must be an end to the dodgy tax practices and use of tax havens that allow corporations and individuals to accrue phenomenal wealth while others’ suffer’.