Skip navigation

Category Archives: youth

Pirate Pip

No 03A

 

Pip's Party Cover

 

 

These are a few of the illustrations made for David Cronin’s children’s book Pirate Pip’s Party.

The book will appear as an e-book sometime soon. Find out more about David Cronin and pirates here.

 

 

 

 

NEW pic 9A2

 

No 10

Dads….

Crazy Dad pic

Illustrating John Kruger’s regular column in Your Kids Magazine. John has been writing about his son Stone since before Stone was born. This column describes a dad’s panic after forgetting to pack Stone’s lunch for the school excursion.

Where is Gonski?

Where is Gonski LR

Craig Greer writes in the latest South Australian Teachers Journal about the lack of special needs funding. ‘It’s an issue that is becoming more critical by the day and, if not addressed with the rollout of needs based funding as recommended by the Gonski Review, has the capacity to severely impact on outcomes in public schools for years to come.’

Reading green…

Green Eggs LR pic

 

John Kruger continues chronicling his son Stone’s life, from birth to young boy, in the SA Kids magazine. In this issue he writes about bedtime reading and how he is not as keen as Stone on Dr Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham.

20 Years of Restorative Justice – comic

comic LR page

The South Australian courts have released a comic book to celebrate 20 years of restorative justice for young offenders; read more  here. The comic, written by Marnie Doig and drawn by me, was actually created 20 years ago, at the beginning of the family conference based system.

I drew the comic before the benefits of computer, scanner and tablet. Corrections were made using white-out,  the black areas filled in with marker pens, no shading was possible, just lots of cross-hatching. Ah, those were the days…

735651-3c2dd7d4-ead3-11e3-bb45-046f3d36ad52

When are basic rights a luxury?

‘Advocacy and Disability Not for Profits have reacted strongly to suggestions that funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme [NDIS] may be cut back or the roll-out slowed. The Coalition Government indicated for the first time that the National Disability Insurance Scheme may be hit by funding cutbacks as part of so called “budget savings”’. Read more from the Pro Bono news website here.

Pro Bono is the ‘online hub for people engaged with Australia’s Not for Profit Communities’.

Here is my NFP Kneebone take on the report:

NDIS Asylum pic

Make a difference!

The role that philanthropists play, in partnership with the not-for-profit sector, is highlighted in a number of posts on the Pro Bono News website.  In particular, a call to young Aussie philanthropists from the Founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Tipping Point Community, Daniel Lurie.

As Philanthropy Australia’s New Generation of Giving Manager, Caroline Vu says: “This generation of young philanthropists isn’t content just writing cheques. They want to be engaged in the giving process, using their skills, resources and networks to maximise return on investment.”

Here’s the cartoon the article inspired:

Make a difference pic

Elephant in the room…

 

 

The focus of the latest issue of New Internationalist is Youth. The cover states:  ‘Youth rising – why apathy is not an option’, and to quote from one article “young people are carrying the can for capitalism’s structural failings’. Those who do read the magazine will know that it presents a global snapshot (and fact-shot) of complex issues.

 

 

This month the cartoon does relate to the theme – as well as using a bit too popular metaphor.