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A wave of community support reaching State Parliament in the form of signatures on the AEU Student Support Funding petition’. More that 10,000 people signed the petition. The cover illustration for the Australian Education Union (AEU), South Australian branch Journal.

Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. The first episode of Pro Bono’s podcast How Can I Help? looks at what you can do when you see someone sleeping rough.

Following Rio Tinto’s destruction of Juukan Gorge in 2020, a new toolkit is here to help investors better understand and protect First Nations rights and cultural sites’. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon 

Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

The Pro Bono News team are all in Melbourne and, like many of our readers, have spent a significant time in lockdown over the past 18 months (and counting). We’ve been working hard to keep you up-to-date with all the happenings across the social sector throughout the pandemic. But the truth is, we’re a little tired. So we’re taking a break for a few days to recharge.’

This week is Homelessness Week.  While government spending cuts to housing and homelessness over the past decade are set to exceed $1 billion, new data shows that private rentals and houses are more unaffordable than ever. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

The ‘Where are you from?’ cartoon has been used in the South Korean text book Citizens and Social Participation, published by Mabook Publishing Company, Incheon, South Korea. Here is the text book with its companion book Citizens and Social Justice. Well illustrated, great looking books.

Independence Educational Publishers UK publish Issues, a series of resource books, now containing over 70 titles, covering a variety of subjects, used primarily by librarians and teachers to help their students gain a better understanding of the world around them and the issues which affect their lives. Read more here.

Just published Issues:

Each book has cartoon illustrations by Angelo Madrid and Simon Kneebone. Here are some of my cartoons from the latest books:

Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.