This is a short animation for the Adelaide City Council to show the benefits of the Placemaking approach. At present, local businesses seeking approval to put a structure on the footpath, in this example a planter box, may need to present the proposal to up to seven departments at their local council. With the Placemaking approach the process would be simplified and is about empowering local businesses.
Guitar and sound effects by Tom Kneebone.
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.
Today’s Pro Bono News cartoon. Illustrating that ‘Peak welfare Not for Profits ACOSS and State and Territory Councils of Social Service have issued a collective New Years Resolution for the Federal Government to stop devastating funding cuts to community organisations across Australia’. Read more of the post here.
Regarding the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) the Assistant Minister for Social Services, Senator Mitch Fifield said:
“None of us are served – Governments, providers, participants, potential participants, carers – none of us are served by anything other than a clear-eyed realism in relation to the Scheme.”
As posted on the Pro Bono Australia website ‘The “Stressful” State of the Disability Sector – Report’
Here is this fortnight’s NFP-Kneebone cartoon for Pro Bono Australia news.
This is disability commentator and blogger John McKenna’s tribute to Stella Young, writer, comedian, journalist and disability activist who died last Saturday. Watch Stella’s TED Talk ‘I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much’.
This is an illustration for one of the new Forest and Wildlife Discovery Trail signs, at the Free The Bears Tat Kuang Si Bear Rescue centre, near Luang Prabang, Laos. This sign will explain the role of umbrella species:
‘Just as umbrellas protect people underneath them from rain, umbrella species keep their Lao forest wildlife friends safe from extinction. Poach or kill umbrella species and the balance of the whole forest is upset, but keep them safe and everyone’s a winner!’
Here is a link to an earlier sign drawn up for the Free The Bears trail.
Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. Abuse of people with disability in institutionalised services was exposed in this week’s 4 Corners – ABC Television program, in particular sexual assault in homes run by Yooralla, one of Australia’s largest disability support organisations. A number of posts on the Pro Bono website give background and more detail of the situation (Independent inquiry call over Yooralla abuse, Yooralla CEO quits, Government rejects Disability Abuse Inquiry).
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One of the featured Australian Options articles, ‘Too Big to Gaol‘, by Evan Jones, considers the Australian financial system.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 
