Regarding the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) the Assistant Minister for Social Services, Senator Mitch Fifield said:
“None of us are served – Governments, providers, participants, potential participants, carers – none of us are served by anything other than a clear-eyed realism in relation to the Scheme.”
As posted on the Pro Bono Australia website ‘The “Stressful” State of the Disability Sector – Report’
Here is this fortnight’s NFP-Kneebone cartoon for Pro Bono Australia news.
This is disability commentator and blogger John McKenna’s tribute to Stella Young, writer, comedian, journalist and disability activist who died last Saturday. Watch Stella’s TED Talk ‘I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much’.
Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon. Abuse of people with disability in institutionalised services was exposed in this week’s 4 Corners – ABC Television program, in particular sexual assault in homes run by Yooralla, one of Australia’s largest disability support organisations. A number of posts on the Pro Bono website give background and more detail of the situation (Independent inquiry call over Yooralla abuse, Yooralla CEO quits, Government rejects Disability Abuse Inquiry).
One of the featured Australian Options articles, ‘Too Big to Gaol‘, by Evan Jones, considers the Australian financial system.
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.
For perhaps the first time, young people could be worse off than their parents. Read the post on the Pro Bono website here. This is my fortnightly NFP Kneebone cartoon for the website.
If you are homeless, don’t hold your breath. Governments don’t, they keep talking, and promising and shelving – see this post on the Not For Profits Pro Bono news website. Here is today’s fortnightly NFP Kneebone cartoon on the same website.
One of the Municipal Association of Victoria’s annual conferences is its national two day The Future of Communities: Power to the People conference. I was there as cartoonist, listening and trying to get as much of the sessions into cartoons as I could. The cartoon above does sum up my impression of the conference. At first it didn’t have the ‘Woohoo!’ Without it the the cartoon seemed to say ‘Oh oh, what have we done?’; that wasn’t what I saw. Adding the ‘Woohoo!’ DOES express what the 250 upbeat and enthusiastic conference participants and presenters showed over the two days. It was a great experience!
The event was facilitated by the quite amazing Peter Kenyon, director of The Bank of Ideas. The complete set of cartoons can be found on their Facebook page. Here are a few of the cartoons…
This month’s New Internationalist ‘Scratchy lines’ cartoon.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 
