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Category Archives: youth

We are working on it…

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New Internationalist Scratchy Lines cartoon for July-August. Visit New Internationalist Australia for subscriptions, blog, shop and more here.

They are amongst us…

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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…

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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.

Our Home book launch

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For more information or getting copies of the book contact the author Sue Coad  -suecoad@adam.com.au   or visit www.facebook.com/unofficial:Our Home

Pirate Pip

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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.

 

 

 

 

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No 10

Dads….

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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?

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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…

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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

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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…

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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:

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