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Dads….

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Illustrating John Kruger’s regular column in Your Kids Magazine. John has been writing about his son Stone since before Stone was born. This column describes a dad’s panic after forgetting to pack Stone’s lunch for the school excursion.

Xenophobia doesn’t stack up…

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A couple of days ago Optus took down an advertising billboard in the Sydney suburb of Casula. The sign was written in Arabic, and is part of a campaign targeting multicultural groups with a simple message “We can speak to you in your language”. Optus received a barrage of negative feedback on Facebook. Read the original news article and see the poster here. This cartoon illustrates today’s blog post on .id the population experts dispelling the myths about Australia’s Arabic speakers (read the full blog.id post here).

Make your own!

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‘Australians foresee a future where their society is more skilled but less friendly and moral, Queensland University of Technology research has found.’ Read the Pro Bono post: Gloomy Aussie Outlook Forecasts Unfriendly Future. This is the latest Pro Bono news cartoon.

Not For Profit challenge for Turnbull

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Today’s Pro Bono news website cartoon. The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) has been under threat of closure by the government for many months. Social Services Minister Scott Morrison almost conceded that it will not be abolished (Morrison fudged ACNC announcement). The situation presents a great challenge to new Prime Minister Turnbull (Turnbull does not mean easy ride for Social Sector).

Tree

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The Scratchy Lines cartoon in the September issue of New Internationalist – out now!

The Big Story in this issue is Syria. The article Singing in the kingdom of silence gives a glimpse of the ‘flood of artistic and intellectual creativity’ that followed the revolution, including examples of graphics and cartoons. The article explains it’s title: there was a singer called Ibrahim Qualoush… (get the magazine to read more).

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TAFE shining light in troubled waters

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‘A Commonwealth takeover of vocational education would lead to full privatisation’ says Australian Education Union Federal TAFE (Technical And Further Education) secretary Pat Forward in the latest AEU Journal (SA Branch). This cartoon illustrates the article.

Ideas… working together

A short 11 second animation to demonstrate an idea.

Professional Planner cover stitched up

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The cover for the June edition of Professional Planner. A weird brief! Read the cover story here.

Conexus Financial, a specialist, independently owned Australian publishing and events company, publishes Professional Planner and Investment Magazine. Here are two earlier covers with my artwork.

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Thinking, not drowning…

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Australian Options is 20 years old. Options 20th Birthday pic

20 years of presenting ideas, analysis and comment; all the more essential in the present ‘are you with us or against us?’ climate.

These cartoons are from the latest issue ‘Renewing Australia’s politics’.

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Keep talking!

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Today’s Pro Bono news (the Not-For-Profit Sector online news service) NFP Kneebone cartoon. Read more about the issues between the Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs and government ministers George Brandis and Peter Dutton on the ABC news website here.