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The Winter edition of Australian Options is out. The focus is on the 2014 Australian Budget. Launched in 1995, ‘Australian Options is a quarterly journal which aims to challenge the ideas dominating Australian mainstream debate’. Here are some of this issue’s cartoon illustrations.

Meanwhile, back at the bonfire…

June 26, 2014 – 10:27 pm
Posted in not for profit, Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged ACNC, cartoon, community, corruption, G20 meeting, Kevin Andrews, not for profit, political, red tape bonfire, social issues, Tony Abbott
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In the lead up to the G20 meeting of Global leaders in Brisbane Australian Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews has declared that ‘We must continue efforts to combat corruption which is one of the greatest barriers to global growth’ (more in the Pro Bono News post here), while persisting with the government’s ‘promise’ to make a bonfire of pesky red and green tape – including the independent charities and not-for-profits regulator ACNC. Not considering that a lot of pesky red and green tape helps keep many organisations on the straight and narrow (see this post, ‘…there are powerful groups… that do not want the scrutiny of an independent body…’). Here is my Pro Bono News cartoon take on things.

Not sinking!

June 12, 2014 – 10:18 pm
Posted in not for profit, Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged cartoon, community support, core funding cut, not for profit, political, Refugee Council of Australia, refugees, Scott Morrison, social issues
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‘Supporters of the Not for Profit peak body Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) have responded to the Federal Government’s cut to the peak body’s core funding – donating $50,000 in two days to its emergency funding appeal. …RCOA chief executive officer Paul Power said that he was still astounded by Minister Scott Morrison’s decision to remove funding that was in the Immigration Department budget that he got through Federal Cabinet just a few weeks earlier.

“Mr Morrison’s suggestion that he was not aware that his Department was funding RCOA is difficult to accept,” Power said.

“The only conclusion one can draw is that either Mr Morrison is being disingenuous in claiming he wasn’t aware of the funding or he has little comprehension of what is happening in the portfolio for which he has responsibility.” ‘

Read the full post on the Pro Bono News website here. The cartoon is today’s Pro Bono News NFP Kneebone.

Follow Me?

May 29, 2014 – 2:23 pm
Posted in economics, Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged cartoon, economics, Free Market, GFC, political, social issues
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This month’s New internationalist Scratchy Lines cartoon.

Australian Federal Budget 2014

May 14, 2014 – 4:59 pm
Posted in economics, not for profit, Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged 2014 Federal Budget, broken promises, cartoon, community, economics, Joe Hockey treasurer, not for profit, political, pro bono, social issues
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This week’s NFP Kneebone cartoon for the Pro Bono news website:

Heavy Lifting …cut?!

May 1, 2014 – 4:26 pm
Posted in economics, not for profit, Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged Abbott Government, cartoon, economics, funding cuts, heavy lifting, Joe Hockey, not for profit, political, pro bono, social issues
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Australian’s are told they will have to do ‘the heavy lifting’ to get the budget out of deficit. In this political climate many not-for-profit community organisations face uncertain funding – and futures.

Posts on the Pro Bono news website give plenty of background, and here’s the NFP Kneebone cartoon from the website.

With us or against us?

April 2, 2014 – 9:45 am
Posted in Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged cartoon, change, liberation, political, politicians, social issues, with us or against us
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The Scratchy Lines cartoon for this month’s New Internationalist magazine. (The Australian site and blog is here).

Australian Options

March 26, 2014 – 5:37 pm
Posted in Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged cartoon, community, economics, mining, political, refugees, social issues, youth
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Australian Options is a quarterly journal ‘which aims to challenge the ideas dominating Australian mainstream debate’. Major articles are by ‘activists and progressive thinkers on contemporary political, social and cultural issues’. It is now heading into its 19th year of publication – and of my ‘cartoon commentary’ illustrating many of the articles. Here are some from the last couple of issues.