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STOP, Go Back, Wrong Way …!

Entering the last day of COP 28 … will the train wreck be averted?!

Another cartoon for the Pacific Islands Forum team at COP 28.

WE ARE GETTING THERE …

More cartoons for the Pacific Islands Forum at COP 28 … it’s getting serious …

Conspiracies, conspiracies everywhere … BUT …

A Secretive Network Is Fighting Indigenous Rights in Australia and Canada – find out more about ATLAS NETWORK.

Waiting for the blood to settle …

The Israeli Government’s massive and bloody retaliation against the people of Gaza for the terror attack by Hamas has only diminished the lives of those Israelis murdered and abducted. ALL lives deserve to be lived.

Long journey towards justice …

The vote in the referendum on 14th October was NO.

On 22nd October a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, community members and organisations who supported Yes released an open letter to be circulated to the Australian public and media, The Statement for our Peoples and Country.

From the statement: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are in shock and are grieving the result. We feel acutely the repudiation of our peoples and the rejection of our efforts to pursue reconciliation in good faith. That people who came to our country in only the last 235 years would reject the recognition of this continent’s First Peoples – on our sacred land which we have cared for and nurtured for more than 65,000 years – is so appalling and mean-spirited as to be utterly unbelievable a week following. It will remain unbelievable and appalling for decades to come.

‘All Australians should read this statement from Indigenous leaders, regardless of how they voted’.

Missing Rule No1 …

… maybe it should be Rule Number 1, and work the rest out from there …

Don’t know? Don’t vote …

A change is coming …

Yesterday isn’t tomorrow …

Cartoon ideas for the next issue of Australian Socialist. Articles include an update on the Voice Referendum, AUKUS, the US Military Empire, the Doomsday Clock is ticking, Timor-Leste and Timor Sea Tasi Mane oil exploration, Death and Taxes, Indigenous Liberation and Socialism book review, the Emerging New World Economy, and more.

Poisoning the waters …

The Opposition’s ‘No’ campaign is scratching scabs on un-healed wounds. “A no vote would mean that ill will, prejudice and sheer bastardry had won.” – Jack Thompson. Noel Peterson, asked about the future of reconciliation efforts if the referendum failed, he replied: “It’ll die. It’ll be dead.”

The ‘No’ campaign is paternalistic dreaming, a dead weight shackled to the failed old ways…