The newly elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised that the Labor government will commit “in full” to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which since 2017, has been calling for a First Nations voice to parliament enshrined in the constitution. To assert his voice, setting out a plan of action on the Statement, Parry Agius proposed a series of social media posts leading up to last Saturday’s federal election. We worked together on these cartoons to illustrate Parry’s thoughts.
Australian Options – cartoons from the March quarterly issue. One focus is on the Australian government’s dismissal of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The Statement was issued by the Referendum Council on behalf of 227 First Nations delegates, ‘the most proportionately significant consultation process that has ever been undertaken with First Peoples’.
Australia’s Turnbull government rejects a call for a First Nations voice to the parliament which had been endorsed by indigenous consensus through the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 