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Don’t mention the war…

July 5, 2016 – 3:11 pm
Posted in asylum seekers, Australian Budget, community issues, economics, human rights, Political cartoons, refugees
Tagged cartoon, change, climate change, community, economics, environment, political, social issues
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Cartoons from the latest Australian Options magazine.

Budget in (pea)nut shell…

May 4, 2016 – 1:45 pm
Posted in Australian Budget, Australian politics, economics, social issues, Uncategorized
Tagged cartoon, economics, Federal Budget 2016, political, Scott Morrison, social issues
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From today’s Pro Bono News federal budget coverage here is the Kneebone cartoon. Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison handed down the 2016 federal budget last night and this is what it looked like (not really… and I should have put in Overseas Aid as a negative peanut – read about aid CUTS here!).

Playground for some…

April 29, 2016 – 3:16 pm
Posted in Australian Budget, Australian politics, community issues, economics, election
Tagged capital gains, cartoon, economics, negative gearing, political, social issues, tax reform
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Yesterday’s Pro Bono news cartoon. See the post ‘Tax Reform Now Off The Table Warns Housing NFP’ on the Pro Bono website.

Er…nothing left to add…up

February 18, 2016 – 12:50 pm
Posted in Australian politics, economics, not for profit, Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged Australian Budget, cartoon, cuts, economics, political, Scott Morrison, social issues
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Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. Yesterday Treasurer Scott Morrison spoke to the National Press club warning that it will be a slow path back to a budget surplus, and calls for spending cuts (read here). In contrast, ACOSS, Australia’s peak welfare body, says the next budget must support essential community services and ‘realign its spending priorities and strengthen the tax base’ (read the Pro Bono post here).

And now you can explore the new look Pro Bono website!

Payday parasites…

April 2, 2015 – 12:02 pm
Posted in community issues, economics, social issues
Tagged cartoon, economics, financial difficulties, payday loans, poverty, pro bono, social issues
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Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon following this week’s Four Corners (ABC TV) investigation into the payday loans industry. Read more on the Pro Bono website here.

We have Options!

February 3, 2015 – 5:34 pm
Posted in economics, Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged Australian Options, cartoon, democracy, economics, government services, Middle East, political, social issues
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The Summer edition of Australian Options is out now. ‘Discussions for Social Justice and political change’ with articles on the ACOSS Report on poverty in Australia, growth issues and alternatives, the Middle East and more.

Too Big to Gaol – The Australian Financial System

November 15, 2014 – 4:53 pm
Posted in economics, economists, Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged Australian financial system, cartoon, economics, G20 summit, political, social issues
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One of the featured Australian Options articles, ‘Too Big to Gaol‘, by Evan Jones, considers the Australian financial system.

G20, can it save the world? – Australian Options spring issue

November 15, 2014 – 4:43 pm
Posted in economics, Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged Australian Options, BRICS, cartoon, climate change, economics, G20, G20 summit, gender gap, political, social issues, Tony Abbott
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G20 in OZ: can it save the world? is the focus of the Spring issue of Australian Options. Topics covered in a wide range of articles include: Australia may be hosting the G20 but it is no G20 leader, the BRICS bank proposal versus the G20, the widening gender pay gap is about to get worse, inequality in Australia, and developing an alternative progressive economic agenda.

The editorial, ‘The unseemly rush to a war without end’, can be read here. To subscribe, go to the website membership page.

Here are a few of the cartoons illustrating this issue.

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