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2023 Vision ………

Keeping on keeping on …

A few of the illustrations for Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living (RAIL) Research Centre, at Monash University.

Aids to maintaining independence – the example, to keep on gardening …

Working on positive pathways…

… to continue enjoying life!

Yesterday isn’t tomorrow …

Cartoon ideas for the next issue of Australian Socialist. Articles include an update on the Voice Referendum, AUKUS, the US Military Empire, the Doomsday Clock is ticking, Timor-Leste and Timor Sea Tasi Mane oil exploration, Death and Taxes, Indigenous Liberation and Socialism book review, the Emerging New World Economy, and more.

CO-designing Arts Future …

Australia’s Arts & Disability Associated Plan – cartoons from a series of online consultation workshops with people with disability and others to shape the plan, run by The Science of Knowing .

Stories tell …

The Sydney International Storytelling Conference, June 2-4. Israeli-born Noa Baum gave the keynote presentation on how she is working on bridging the divide between Israelis and Palestinians. Listening with heart and mind, accepting dissonance and uncertainty.

And two days of moving stories, and workshops. These conferences are wonderful treats.

And three cartoons done after the event to illustrate Caroline Welkin’s piece about the conference for Fact and Fiction Magazine.

Poisoning the waters …

The Opposition’s ‘No’ campaign is scratching scabs on un-healed wounds. “A no vote would mean that ill will, prejudice and sheer bastardry had won.” – Jack Thompson. Noel Peterson, asked about the future of reconciliation efforts if the referendum failed, he replied: “It’ll die. It’ll be dead.”

The ‘No’ campaign is paternalistic dreaming, a dead weight shackled to the failed old ways…

Will dodgy accounting save the planet …?

… instead of actually reducing global emissions …

Dignity in the face of …

Stan Grant, ABC journalist, steps away.

All lobbied up ….

The Northern Territory government will allow a full-scale onshore gas industry to go ahead in the gas-rich Beetaloo Basin, five years after a moratorium on fracking was lifted.

Sámi reindeer herding …

Diagram for a research paper from the Stockholm Environment Institute offering, ‘for the first time, an evaluation … of agreements between Sámi reindeer herding districts and developers in Sweden. The evaluation was conducted from a Sámi perspective…‘

See an earlier related post here.