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Census sense

id Informed Decisions are the Australian and New Zealand ‘population experts’ providing demographic profiling and forecasting:  ‘We believe that by making demographic information accessible to the broadest possible audience, and promoting evidence-based decision making, we are contributing to a fairer and more sustainable society’.

Their id blog has many observations drawn from a range of data. A prime source of data being the 2011 Australian Census.

Here are some of the small graphics drawn for a number of the blog posts.

The coffee economy

The coffee economy

2012 review

2012 review

Grim reaper

Grim reaper

Economic modelling

Economic modelling

 

Election – make a difference!

November’s New Internationalist is out. This issue tackles Medicine and ‘inequality’s toxic effect on health and healthcare’.  However, with the US election only days away my Scratchy Lines cartoon took a look at how electing our representatives works …

From Micro to Macro….

 

 

The next set of books from Independence Educational Publishers has appeared. From the Poverty book here is a cartoon illustrating a positive article on the value of microfinance.

 

 

Bold New World!

 

This is the cartoon in the current edition of New Internationalist.

 

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Managing?

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.

Engagement without Borders 2

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…

 

Secrets of cartooning: it’s easier to draw than do….

The June New Internationalist is out now. Buy it. Here is this month’s Scratchy Lines cartoon:

 

Engagement without Borders

This is a quick sketch to capture some of the spirit of the International Association for Public Participation (Australasia)‘s Engagement without Borders event happening on the 29th May at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne.

The day is described as an ‘inclusive engagement feast’ – and will include the Afghan tea cycle which I’ve drawn a bit of in my picture.  Any event held at the wonderful Abbotsford Convent is guaranteed to be something special.

 

Flatten your hierarchical structure now!

No one asks for gratuitous ideas but here you go …

Occupy the planet!

The January/February issue of New Internationalist  is in the newsagents.

Here is my  Scratchy Lines cartoon, which appears on the Letters page: