Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Date: 2011

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017780

Description: The cartoon shows the damaged skeleton of a large building that has the words 'BogeymanHQ' sculptured in stone around the top. Below is a tent with washing hung up to dry and nearby is a sign that reads 'Vacancy - Apply within'. Context - This is the bombed remains of Osama bin Laden's house after it was attacked and bin Laden shot dead on 1 May 2011. Bin Laden, 54, was killed after a gunbattle with Navy SEALs and CIA paramilitary forces at a compound in the city of Abbottabad and was buried at sea. Osama bin Laden was behind Twin Towers attack 9/11/2001 which killed nearly 3000 people, including the 19 hijackers. President Obama says 'Justice has been done'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0017117

Description: The cartoon shows two dogs watching and commenting as a freedom camper rushes out of his tent and does his business under a bush. One of the dogs says 'Must be why the humans always pick ours up - they gotta make room for their own' and the other says '...and they call US filthy mongrels'. Context - the problem of the mess left by some freedom campers. Offenders could soon face hefty fines for setting up camp in areas without adequate toilet facilities. (NZH 13 February 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0014671

Description: The cartoon shows a bottomless pit into which a dump-truck is tipping a heap of money. A contractor counts up to 'three million'. A seagull comments that it can't see the cents in it' (play on 'cents' and 'sense') and its mate flies of for Big Wednesday'. A street sign reads 'Awatea St.'. Refers to the building of the new Forsyth Barr stadium which will replace the old Carisbrook. 'Big Wednesday' refers to the last rugby test played at Carisbrook. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0017115

Description: Co-leaders of the Maori Party Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples struggle to paddle a waka upstream; they are towing Maori Party MP Hone Harawira who sits in a rubber ring that is tied to the waka by a rope and is perilously close to a waterfall. Pita Sharples says 'Not sure if this is any easier than when he was paddling backwards'. Context - criticisms of Maori Party policy and thinking by Hone Harawira has led to a complaint being laid against him by fellow Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell. This means an investigation that could lead to expulsion for Hone or some sort of conciliation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0014674

Description: Two vehicles have crashed - one is a hearse carrying the American singer and dancer Michael Jackson, who died 26th June 2009, and the other a Madame Tussaud's van. The drivers scratch their heads as they try to decide which of the two Michael Jacksons lying on the ground is the Madame Tussaud model and which is the real person. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0017200

Description: The cartoon shows the Christchurch Cathedral surrounded by rubble and with its steeple gone. The bell lies on the ground and pieces of broken stone form the word 'tragedy'. Context - The Christchurch earthquake 22 February 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0017114

Description: Two men sit in a bar over a beer and watch the news on television showing crowds of Egyptian people demonstrating against President Mubarak. One of them says 'police brutality' was one of the factors that started the protests and the other expresses relief that New Zealand doesn't have that problem. But the first man watches a policeman being attacked through the window and says 'sadly, in a way, we kinda do!' Context - the popular uprising in Egypt aimed at overthrowing Mubarak and initiating democratic elections and in New Zealand several attacks against individual police personel in recent months. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017781

Description: A large aggressive-looking dog tells his small hairy friend 'I know I LOOK like a vicious killer, but I actually identify more with my Labrador side - My great great granddoggy was one, y'know'. The small dog replies 'I imagine it's quite hard to communicate that with snarls and barks'. Context - The mother of an 8-year-old Dunedin boy whose ear was ripped in half when he was mauled by a dog says dangerous breeds "should all be shot". Only about 200 of the 15,343 dogs registered in Dunedin are regarded as menacing or dangerous, Dunedin City Council senior animal control officer Jim Pryde says. (NZ Herald 2 May 2011 and Newsline 5 May 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0017199

Description: A man is squeezed between two huge trucks, one representing fuel companies and the other the dairy industry. He gasps and says that he feels 'so much more comfortable now' that he realises that 'one's frozen'. Context - Retail fuel prices rose 5 cents per litre on 1 March in response to a sharp climb in oil prices a week earlier. Since the last pump price rise on 16 February, the price of oil rose from US$103/barrel to US$113/barrel, and it continues to climb due to the political crisis in Libya which is a major oil exporter. While fuel prices are up across most of the country, the oil companies have not raised prices in Christchurch and don't plan to do so for the foreseeable future. Fonterra has frozen the wholesale domestic price of milk. After a week of negative media coverage about skyrocketing milk prices, Fonterra said yesterday that its consumer products division would freeze wholesale domestic milk prices for the rest of the year. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017782

Description: The cartoon is entitled 'The fast and the furious - How to get new wheels'. In three cameos on the left side former leader of the National Party Don Brash hijacks ACT leader Rodney Hide's car by threatening Hide with a gun and then tossing him out and taking over the steering wheel himself. I the three cameos on the right side former Maori Party MP Hone Harawira leaps out of the Maori Party car that has plummeted off the road and crawls to safety; next we hear banging and sawing noises coming from a garage and lastly we see Hone on his new hand-made motor scooter named 'Mana'. Don Brash sneers 'Nice ride Hone!' and Hone replies 'Least I made my own'. Context - Don Brash has replaced Rodney Hide as ACT leader after a bloodless coup and Hone Harawira has resigned from the Maori Party and started his own party which is to be called 'Mana'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).