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Rewriting …

June 24, 2022 – 8:30 am
Posted in asylum seekers, human rights, refugees, social issues, world events
Tagged asylum seekers, cartoon, Refugee Week, refugees, social issues
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Refugee Week. Yesterday’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

Maybe …

January 11, 2022 – 5:24 pm
Posted in asylum seekers, Australian Open, Australian politics, human rights, Political cartoons, refugees, social issues, world events
Tagged asylum seekers, cartoon, detention, Park Hotel, political, refugees
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Refugees detained in the Park Hotel, Melbourne: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-09/park-hotel-detainee-speak-out/100745456

Resilience revived …

April 6, 2021 – 12:33 pm
Posted in asylum seekers, community issues, human rights, not for profit, refugees, social issues
Tagged animation, illustration, refugees, torture & trauma survivors, video
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Two videos by Laundry Lane Productions for STARTTS, the NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors. STARTTS developed the scripts from which I drew storyboards and, after feedback, the illustrations. The illustration pieces for each scene were animated, along with voiceover and sound, by Santiago Dutil.

We’ll call you ….

July 31, 2020 – 10:52 am
Posted in asylum seekers, Australian politics, human rights, Political cartoons, refugees
Tagged Australian refugee policy, borders closed, cartoon, refugees
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Australia’s borders are shut, so where does that leave refugees? This week’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

Kindness …

June 19, 2020 – 12:09 pm
Posted in asylum seekers, Australian politics, community issues, human rights, refugees, social issues
Tagged asylum seekers, cartoon, government, kindness, Refugee Week, refugees, statues
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This week’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

Where are you from ?

May 20, 2015 – 9:33 pm
Posted in Cartoonists, community issues, refugees
Tagged asylum seekers, cartoon, cartoonists, refugees, where are you from?
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Here is an interview about this cartoon:

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-cartoon-that-sums-up-the-worlds-migrant-crisis–g12atJpSWZ

The cartoon first appeared in Australian Options magazine – discussions for social justice and political change – which is celebrating its 20th year of publication! I have drawn cartoons for every issue.

Not sinking!

June 12, 2014 – 10:18 pm
Posted in not for profit, Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged cartoon, community support, core funding cut, not for profit, political, Refugee Council of Australia, refugees, Scott Morrison, social issues
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‘Supporters of the Not for Profit peak body Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) have responded to the Federal Government’s cut to the peak body’s core funding – donating $50,000 in two days to its emergency funding appeal. …RCOA chief executive officer Paul Power said that he was still astounded by Minister Scott Morrison’s decision to remove funding that was in the Immigration Department budget that he got through Federal Cabinet just a few weeks earlier.

“Mr Morrison’s suggestion that he was not aware that his Department was funding RCOA is difficult to accept,” Power said.

“The only conclusion one can draw is that either Mr Morrison is being disingenuous in claiming he wasn’t aware of the funding or he has little comprehension of what is happening in the portfolio for which he has responsibility.” ‘

Read the full post on the Pro Bono News website here. The cartoon is today’s Pro Bono News NFP Kneebone.

Australian Options

March 26, 2014 – 5:37 pm
Posted in Political cartoons, social issues
Tagged cartoon, community, economics, mining, political, refugees, social issues, youth
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Australian Options is a quarterly journal ‘which aims to challenge the ideas dominating Australian mainstream debate’. Major articles are by ‘activists and progressive thinkers on contemporary political, social and cultural issues’. It is now heading into its 19th year of publication – and of my ‘cartoon commentary’ illustrating many of the articles. Here are some from the last couple of issues.