More impacting idea..

I was just thinking that my ideas aren't really aggressive enough - my original plan was to do something with aversive stimulation or really vehement threats but my images don't really do that. They're a little passive.

Maybe I could do something really offensive involving perhaps an Australian cow -- Aussie meat is a major export -- so I could have an image of like a cow sitting in a paddock with bites being taken out of it by the "trading partner" cartoons or something. This would probably look better as a photograph manipulation (more confronting) but that's not the style I've been investigating and it would clash with my other image designs. I could do it in the cartoon vein; just maybe make all the cartoons a little more realistic?

The image of a cow being eaten alive could have so many connotations so I'd have to have strong "negative effects of global trade" link in the image too -- which might be in text treatment or in the use of some "import/export" stuff or money connections.

In any event I think I need to make the images more brutal. Like maybe the puppet image could have Australia as a dead puppet -- murdered by the future collapse of the global market..

But that whole vein's a bit out there and I'm not sure people will really "buy it" because they don't like to believe that sort of thing is possible.