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Feedback fuel…

May 9, 2017 – 4:45 pm
Posted in Charities, human rights, Information, not for profit, social issues
Tagged cartoon illustrations, community development, community feedback, feedback
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Some of the illustrations for the World Vision Community Feedback and Response System Field Guide.

They are amongst us…

April 20, 2017 – 3:06 pm
Posted in childhood, community issues, facilitation, social issues, youth
Tagged children, ideas for engaging, the future, youth
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250 Ideas for Engaging Children and Young People a forthcoming e-book by Moira Deslandes, Moira Deslandes Consulting. A few of the cartoon illustrations.

Friendly fire…

April 6, 2017 – 5:23 pm
Posted in community issues, Education, Health, Homelessness, social issues, youth
Tagged adolescence issues, cartoon, mental health, stress, Teenagers
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Today’s Pro Bono Australia news cartoon. The idea came from the post Calling on Young People to Have Their Say.

Sami impact…

March 22, 2017 – 6:44 pm
Posted in Environment, human rights, Information, social issues
Tagged cartoon information graphics, environment, Environmental impact, Sami people, Sami-state collaboration
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Schematic illustrations from the paper Sami-state collaboration in the governance of cumulative effects assessment: a critical action research approach (Larsen, Raitio, Stinnerbom, Wik-Karlsson) in Environmental Impact Assessment Review 64 (2017) 67-76. More about the indigenous Sami people here, and similarities with Australia’s indigenous peoples’ experience here.

There are Options…

March 9, 2017 – 4:41 pm
Posted in human rights, Political cartoons, poverty, social issues
Tagged Australian Options, castro, consequences, racism, Trump
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Australian Options Summer 2017 edition is out now. Focus is on the US Election outcome, the economic consequences and racism. And Castro’s audacity.

Grounded…

February 23, 2017 – 10:53 am
Posted in Charities, disability, disability issues, human rights, not for profit, social issues, wheelchair
Tagged dignity, disability, life, low expectations, rights
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Today’s Pro Bono cartoon. Kelly Vincent’s Pro Bono News post ‘The soft bigotry of low expectations’ was the inspiration. She writes

‘It is safe to say that politically I don’t have much in common with George W. Bush, former president of the United States, but he used a phrase to describe institutional discrimination and bias that seems as apt today as when he spoke it, back in 2000. He described it as the soft bigotry of low expectations. Even today in 2017, it is a real thing and it is forming a barrier around people with disability every day and in all aspects of their lives’.

Kelly Vincent MLC is the youngest woman ever elected to an Australian parliament, the first elected on a disability rights platform and leader of the Dignity Party in the South Australian Legislative Council.