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Can we borrow your canoe?
Cartoon depicts an urban-rural health services van stopped at a broken bridge, washed away by Cyclone Gabrielle the year before and not yet repaired.. Title: . "Widening gap between rural and urban health-news'. A female medical worker leans out the window calling to a woman paddling across. "Can we borrow your canoe?". Refers to news story of a head nurse who still has to take her own canoe to travel to her workplace at a rural hospital.
Author: Slane Cartoons
All Rights Reserved. Licensed for single publication in Farmer's Weekly
File state: Final
Cartoon size: 4.1 Mpixels (11.6 MB uncompressed) - 2362x1718 pixels (7.9x5.7 in / 20x14.5 cm at 300 ppi)
Cartoon keywords: agriculture, cartoon, change, climate, farmer, farming, floods, Gabrielle, infrastructure, New Zealand, weather
Published in: Farmers Weekly 2024
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