Cartoon ideas from an opinion piece by John Bridgland continuing his exploration of the South Australian government exploitation of Adelaide’s 189-year-old park lands estate. Transparency campaigner and former SA senator Rex Patrick exposes the cozy relationship between Premier Malinauskas and the daily News Corp (Murdoch) newspaper The Advertiser …
Cartoons for the new DEMOCRACY booth in the exhibition hall at the Australian Labor Party ALP 50th National Conference in Adelaide 23-25 July. ‘The new DEMOCRACY Foundation is a non-partisan research, advocacy and advisory charity that promotes Citizens’ Assemblies as a more trusted way of doing democratic decision-making.’
I did cartoon caricatures of visitors to the booth during the conference, while they were introduced to the new DEMOCRACY mission.
‘Hello Simon–we probably talked 40 years ago when you designed the letterhead/Annual Report for Fitzroy Community Health Centre in Melbourne. I’m attaching an example of that excellent collaboration as a reminder.
I’m now involved in setting up ‘Friends of Community Health’ to resuscitate the community activism of those early times 🫤.
I’m also attaching our information sheet/hand out that needs some illustration/ lightening up.best regards, Terri Jackson (former Manager of FCHC)’
The city of Adelaide is ringed by parklands. Laid out in its original design they were to be ‘a place for everyone’. However, particularly in recent years, they are being whittled away by encroaching developments. One indicator is the destruction of trees and habitat: 585 trees have just been felled for the redevelopment of the North Adelaide golf course, 400 trees will have gone for the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital (built on the parklands!) and about 45 trees will be removed for the MotoGP circuit ….
For much more on this, see the Adelaide Parklands Association website.
…resist the Kool-Aid!
As designed by William Light Adelaide was a city surrounded by wide parklands – parklands for all. Over many years they have been encroached upon by various developments, and this has ramped up under the Malinauskas government, encouraged by various influential groups, developers, lobbyists and more – as detailed by the Adelaide Parklands Association.
… so much for social cohesion, as Albanese hoped.
Isaac Herzog says the photograph of him signing a bomb in 2023 was taken out of context ….
Adelaide’s Writers’ Week has been cancelled after political and lobby group pressure. More than 180 authors have pulled out. Director Louise Adler has resigned accusing government and lobby groups of censorship. The event is a great loss.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 