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De-droning…

Le pouvoir caché de la pensée systèmes …

Le pouvoir caché de la pensée systèmes – Gouverner dans l’urgence climatique – The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking – Governing in the Climate Emergency.

The 2020 book by Ray Ison and Ed Straw has just been translated into French by Houda Khayame. This meant that the 27 diagrams and illustrations that I had developed with Ray Ison needed to be translated and the French words and text integrated into the originals. Alas, my schoolboy French … but a number of translation sites were so helpful.

One of the group, Franck Varenne acknowledged the team involved with the French version.

… for the book, click here.

Crossroads …

Cover illustration for the South Australian Council of Social Service SACOSS annual report. The community sector is at a crossroads…

Previous covers:

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Zero …

The barely relevant Liberal National Party LNP (or should it be NLP?) has decided to abandon the bipartisan Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions policy: the market will drive energy policy, bring down emissions – and prices …really??

Being a pest …

Pesticide found in blueberries

Cartoons for David Low, founder of the Australian Pollution Research Network. Drawn from his ideas and messages about the reckless use of pesticides, PFAS chemicals and more.

The National Fire Ant Eradication Program …

Still gettin’ the posse together …

Cartoons for the latest issue of Australian Socialist. Issues covered include: the US playing chicken with China; Israel doesn’t go rogue – it goes by the Pentagon’s green light; Land Back, close Pine Gap – the US base in central Australia; the root causes of the war in Ukraine.

Believe it or not …

Small Town Reinvention …

The 2nd National Small Town Reinvention Conference was held at Kapunda, South Australia, 22-25 September. The cartoons illustrated just some of the many moments and messages over four great days.

The conference was another Peter Kenyon of The Bank of Ideas event. Supported by many – in particular Tony Piccolo MP who brought the conference to Kapunda.

The 28 cartoons were auctioned on the last day, the money raised was donated to the painting of the Kapunda silo art project.

Trashing the neighbourhood …

Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk once said, “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage.” He preferred the word ‘sympathy’. That is an insight.

At the moment, globally , empathy doesn’t rate highly.

Empathy isn’t to be trashed. It is a skill. It helps find that small piece of common ground between widely divergent stands, a starting point …

Pacific gaslighted …

Australia’s biggest gas project, Woodside’s North West Shelf, has received final approval to extend operations through until 2070.