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The BS Border Force

Australia, Blog, Featured, Illustration, Politics, Staff Picks

August 29, 2015

The controversial “Operation Fortitude” has thankfully been cancelled. Australian Border Force officials were to be included in a major policing operation over the weekend in Melbourne’s CBD, but people power has prevailed, with protests bringing the operation to a halt… For...

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A disgraceful smear campaign

Australia, Blog, Politics

March 31, 2015

It has been bought to my attention that certain individuals have used a quote from an article I wrote some years ago regarding the Bill Henson case in a terrible smear campaign against a prominent MP. The perpetrators of this malicious act of character assassination printed a link to my website on flyers...

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Je Suis Le Crayon Oublié (I am the Forgotten Pencil)

Art & Design, Blog, Censorship, Featured, Illustration, News, Politics

February 4, 2015

In the aftermath of tragedy, such as the ‪#‎CharlieHebdo‬ shootings, we often conveniently forget the collective carnage that we, as a species inflict on each other. My good friend Mark Gonzales reached out and we collaborated on the following piece. “Je Suis Crayon Oublié” (I am the...

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Lest We Forget

Art & Design, Australia, Blog, Featured, Illustration, Politics

January 27, 2015

My latest cartoon, outlining some of my thoughts regarding ‪#‎AustraliaDay‬ and the fact that in just over 200 years we have nearly destroyed over 60,000 years of ‪#‎Indigenous‬ culture and history. “Lest we forget our past, so we can work towards a better future.”  ...

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End the Violence In Gaza – Global Review Issue #1

Art & Design, Blog, Featured, Illustration, Middle East, News, Politics

July 31, 2014

During the past three weeks Israel has continuously committed heinous acts of terror against the Palestinian People. The hypocrisy of world leaders and the impotence of their silence is as disturbing as the barbaric acts of violence Israel has unleashed on Gaza. ...

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Abbott Meets Ethnics

Australia, Blog, Illustration, Politics

July 3, 2014

A quick sketch I drew for an excellent satirical piece published on Sajjeling....

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Fight the Empire

Art & Design, Illustration, Politics

February 1, 2014

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Murder, Media and What We Read

Articles, Blog, Middle East, Politics, USA

March 16, 2012

When innocent men, woman and children are killed, it is called murder, so why does this not translate onto the pages of what we read as we ingest our daily fill of mainstream media? Writes Reuben Brand. The gruesome murder of 16 innocent people, nine of whom where children, by a US soldier in Afghanistan...

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On Utøya: Anders Breivik, Right Terror, Racism and Europe

Australia, Blog, Politics, Projects

November 4, 2011

I recently filmed the global launch of On Utøya – a compelling and challenging new book. The book was launched in Sydney by Greens Senator, Lee Rhiannon and Independent Journalist and Author, Antony Loewenstein. Edited by Elizabeth Humphrys, Guy Rundle and Tad Tietze, with essays by Anindya...

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Torture: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al should be charged

Blog, Politics, USA

July 13, 2011

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has recently released a 107 page report, “Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees,” detailing the abuse of detainees under the former Bush administration. “Overwhelming evidence of torture by the Bush administration obliges...

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