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Meanwhile, back at the bonfire…

 

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In the lead up to the G20 meeting of Global leaders in Brisbane Australian Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews has declared that ‘We must continue efforts to combat corruption which is one of the greatest barriers to global growth’  (more in the Pro Bono News post here), while persisting with the government’s ‘promise’ to make a bonfire of pesky red and green tape – including the independent charities and not-for-profits regulator ACNC. Not considering that a lot of pesky red and green tape helps keep many organisations on the straight and narrow (see this post, ‘…there are powerful groups… that do not want the scrutiny of an independent body…’). Here is my Pro Bono News cartoon take on things.

 

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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Not sinking!

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‘Supporters of the Not for Profit peak body Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) have responded to the Federal Government’s cut to the peak body’s core funding – donating $50,000 in two days to its emergency funding appeal. …RCOA chief executive officer Paul Power said that he was still astounded by Minister Scott Morrison’s decision to remove funding that was in the Immigration Department budget that he got through Federal Cabinet just a few weeks earlier.

“Mr Morrison’s suggestion that he was not aware that his Department was funding RCOA is difficult to accept,” Power said.

“The only conclusion one can draw is that either Mr Morrison is being disingenuous in claiming he wasn’t aware of the funding or he has little comprehension of what is happening in the portfolio for which he has responsibility.” ‘

Read the full post on the Pro Bono News website here. The cartoon is today’s Pro Bono News NFP Kneebone.

 

Follow Me?

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This month’s New internationalist Scratchy Lines cartoon.

Australian Federal Budget 2014

This week’s NFP Kneebone cartoon for the Pro Bono news website:

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Heavy Lifting …cut?!

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Australian’s are told they will have to do ‘the heavy lifting’ to get the budget out of deficit. In this political climate many not-for-profit community organisations face uncertain funding – and futures.

Posts on the Pro Bono news website give plenty of background, and here’s the NFP Kneebone cartoon from the website.

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My Scratchy Lines cartoon from the May issue of New Internationalist:

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Bob Dick’s Approaching Change – one story at a time

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Bob Dick is well known as an action researcher, an elder of  facilitation in Australia, and an international figure in the field of Action Learning and Action Research – as facilitator Andrew Rixon, writes in his introduction to Bob’s Approaching Change – one story at a time, 20 stories and insights for coaches, facilitators, trainers and change leaders; an e-book to be launched next week – more details and buy it here.

Bob Dick begins his collection with ‘…the discovery of the virtues of story as intervention and story for diagnosis.’ Tools for change!

These illustrations are just hints to the story gems in this book.

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Bookmark design

The internet book company The Book Depository has an annual bookmark design competition. If you have bought books from them you will know that they come with interesting bookmarks. Some are handy bits of information (I’ve  got ones showing the Periodic Table and  the Chinese zodiac), others are little works of art. This was my entry:

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And here are the winning entries:

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With us or against us?

The Scratchy Lines cartoon for this month’s New Internationalist magazine. (The Australian site and blog is here).

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