Native Australian bees have blue stripes on their back ends – not yellow. Now I know!
This artwork is for a large (3m x 3.5m) panel in the Natural Resource Management’s interactive display at the Adelaide Show this week.
The display includes recordings of the sounds of various native creatures and visitors will match each sound with a creature in the picture. The spider will be tricky.
In a slightly deluded belief that providing a cloud for uploading files is cutting edge community development ‘Global cloud computing giant, Salesforce.com has defended its plans to trademark the term ‘social enterprise’ world wide’. Click here to read the story on the Pro Bono website.
Quoting from the article:
‘US author and social entrepreneur, Auren Kaplan responded … saying “the trademarking of “social enterprise” by Salesforce degrades the work of social entrepreneurs all over the world, and is unacceptable.”
‘Many responses … have described the Salesforce.com moves as absurd, ridiculous, foolish and brand suicide’.
Here is today’s NFP Kneebone cartoon for Pro Bono News:
The Winter 2012 Edition of Australian Options (in newsagents now!) has an article ‘The real politics of Rupert Murdoch’ by David McKnight, author of the book Rupert Murdoch: an Investigation of Political Power.
The article argues that, although saying he simply runs his newspapers as profit making businesses, Rupert Murdoch has a deeper interest in political influence, and uses free market populism to sway debate on important issues.
These are the cartoons that illustrated the article (the article will explain just what they are referring to, but I hope they can stand alone).
Cleanskin sheep are ideal easy-care meat sheep for new farmers. A new website provides basic information about keeping these wool-less breeds of sheep. To visit Cleanskin Sheep Information click here.
In a world where, although it appears economical to jet Canadian pork around the world to Australia, for example, there is a growing movement for promoting – and celebrating – local produce; the sharing of this sort of information is valuable.
And it is about all food, not only meat, of course.
The website also gives an opportunity for cartoons to help highlight some of the issues – and give sheep a voice.
The Australian Government plans to introduce an income management card – called the Basics Card – to a number of low-income areas. The intervention in the Northern Territory in 2007 included income management imposed on Aboriginal communities. Income management quarantines a proportion of welfare recipients’ benefits, through a card, which can only be spent on essentials.
This cartoon illustrates some of the concerns about the scheme, as presented in an article on the Pro Bono website news page. To read the article click here.
The Engagement without Borders event (see an earlier post) was held at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne on the 29th May. The day highlighted the challenges, difficulties – and the successes – experienced by a wide range of people working with diverse communities. Here is a small glimpse from a cartoonist on the spot…
John McKenna is a well-known Australian disability commentator, and this week publishes his 80th post on his blog. (It is also his 50th birthday this week – more reason to celebrate!).
For some time, in collaboration with John, I have been drawing cartoons to illustrate some of his posts.
A poll of over 1700 clients by The Salvation Army showed that more than half have gone without meals to pay for other basic necessities. This is in Australia, a wealthy country…
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 