Political party formed in June 2004 and registered on 9 July 2004. Formed in response to Maori dissension over the proposed foreshore and seabed legislation and other issues. Tariana Turia was elected as the party's first leader and member of parliament.
Māori Party
Post-Election Treaty
Date: 6 February 2008
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-052
Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key as a Māori chief signing the Post-Election Treaty with Māori Party leaders Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples (resembling Captain Hobson) at Waitangi. Helen Clark is another Māori chief who has not been invited to sign the treaty and she sits happily looking on in the background. Refers to the Treaty of Waitangi and the agreement between National Party and Maori Party following the general election. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 300 x 420mm
'What do you mean, it's yours "By divine right"?'
Date: 2008
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
By: NZ Truth (Newspaper)
Reference: A-453-013
Description: Shows a menacing-looking Santa Claus with Prime Minister John Key on his knee. Key is grinning and holding a greenstone mere printed with the words 'Māori Party'. Labour leader Phil Goff is jumping upside down as Santa asks him 'What do you mean it's yours "by divine right"?' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 210 x 300 mm
Once again, Dr Sharples' patented "contrition" look works wonders
Date: [2009]
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-139
Description: Shows a wide-eyed Pita Sharples, Minister of Māori Affairs, standing in front of an irate Prime Minister John Key. Refers to tensions between the National Party government and the Māori Party, one of its support parties. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 225x330 mm
Sit - beg - roll over
Date: 20 October 2008
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-039
Description: Shows Māori Party co-leader Pita Sharples addressing a crocodile with John Key's face. Sharples is holding a packet of 'Māori Party Support Treats' and instructing a drooling Key to "Sit - Beg - Roll over". Refers to the prospect of the Māori Party supporting a National government after the 2008 election. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - Leader page cartoon: 2010 A8 Cartoon 156.8mm x 132.1 mm Pls correct & send to GNZHARTPIX [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 225 x 320 mm
THE MMP FLAG. Nats. Coalition Partners.
Date: 12 January 2009
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-127
Description: Shows a Tino Rangatiratanga flag on the Auckland Harbour bridge. On closer inspection the flag is actually a MMP flag in which the National Party is clasping fingers with its coalition partners. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - 1301A8CARTOON 157.2MM X 129.5 Pls correct & send to MediaGrid, GNZHARTPIX [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper 225x330 mm
"Gee Gerry, that's a big olive branch you've got there"
Date: 30 April 2006
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-130
Description: Shows Gerry Brownlee with a large olive branch that he is about to hit Maori Party leaders Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples who believe he is offering them a large symbolic act of peace. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 225x330 mm
NZ Herald. All Whites to South Africa in 2010. "That'll please Hone"
Date: 15 November 2009
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-132
Description: Shows Maori Party co-leaders Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples looking at the newspaper headline about the New Zealand soccer team (All Whites) going to the Soccer World Cup in South Africa. Turia comments that it should please Hone Harawira. Refers to Hone Harawira making strong anti-Paheka comments in an email. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - 1611A12CARTOON [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 225x330 mm
"Call me picky, but I prefer a good luck charm to actually bring me good luck... and ma...
Date: 13 November 2009
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-134
Description: Shows Maori Party leader Tariana Turia wearing an oversized greenstone pendant which resembles Hone Harawira. Turia is holding a pair of scissors and is about to cut the string which holds her to Harawira. Refers to the unofficial side trip taken by Harawira and his wife to Paris while in Europe at tax-payers' expense. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 225x330 mm
"We went to the foreshore and caught this fine eel!"
Date: [June 2010]
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-348
Description: Shows Māori Party co-leaders Pita Sharples and Tariana Turia encircled by a snake (Prime Minister John Key). Refers to the Māori Party's supply agreement with National and Key's announcement that his government would appeal the Foreshore and Seabed Act. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 195 x 280 mm
That's the insulation sorted - just in time
Date: 2008
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-156
Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key sitting in a warm, well-insulated house, just as it begins to rain outside. The house's insulation is visible and has the names of political parties enscribed in it: 'Act', 'Greens' and 'Maori', Refers to the introduction of the government's insulation subsidy in 2008. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 225x330 mm
THE WEEK
Date: 19 December 2009
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-176
Description: Shows three vignettes of events that have happened during the week. The first shows a Sikh man wearing a turban looking a poster advertising the Cosmopolitan Club movie night 'The Turban Hater'. The second shows a couple watching a television programme by TVNZ called 'Dumb and Dumber', referring to the TVNZ charter. The third shows Maori Party leaders Pita Sharples and Tariana Turia alongside John Key saluting the raised Tino Rangatiratanga flag. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - SAT CARTOON 1912A20CARTOON [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 450x660 mm
Meanwhile, on a weird alien planet... "Out-of-control satellites? - Tell me about it!"
Date: 29 March 2007
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-238
Description: Shows Helen Clark as a planet in which she has artificial satellites surrounding her. The satellites are of the Green Party, New Zealand First, Maori Party and United Future. Refers to the minority parties which are associating themselves with the Labour Party. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 270mm x 230mm
Māori Party: Fliers, cards and pamphlets of octavo size
Date: 2017
By: Māori Party
Reference: Eph-A-NZ-MAORI-2017
Description: Comprises emphemera relating to the New Zealand Māori Party from 2017. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 1 pieces of ephemera.
Alexander Turnbull Library: Harvested Twitter data relating to the 2017 General Electio...
Date: 31 July - 30 September 2017
By: Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: ATL-Group-00600
Description: Twitter crawl conducted by staff at the Alexander Turnbull Library relating to the 2017 General Elections in Aotearoa New Zealand. This dataset contains 1,021,799 tweets related to the 2017 New Zealand general elections. They were collected between 31 July 2017 to 30 September 2017 from the public Twitter API using Twarc. Quantity: 1 data set(s).
Ephemera relating to Maori
Date: 2004
By: Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History; Auckland University Press; Auckland War Memorial Museum; Māori Party; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; National Library of New Zealand; New Zealand. Department of Conservation; New Zealand. Māori Television; Ngai Tahu Property Group Ltd; Pataka Porirua Museum of Arts and Cultures; Rangiatea (Church : Ōtaki, N.Z.); Te Wānanga o Aotearoa; Wellington (N.Z.). City Council
Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-2004
Description: Comprises ephemera relating to Maori in 2004. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 38 pieces of ephemera.
Māori Party: [Ephemera of A3 size, ca 2005- ]
Date: 2005
By: Māori Party
Reference: Eph-C-POLITICS-Maori
Description: Includes: Māori Party. Walking the talk. 'Ko tēnei te wā' [2005] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, 420 x 297 mm.
Māori Party: Walking the talk; stand tall and be proud. 'Ko tēnei te wā' [2005]
Date: 2005
By: Māori Party
Reference: Eph-C-POLITICS-Maori-2005-01
Description: Tabloid pamphlet shows on the front cover a group portrait of Māori Party members: Pita Sharples, Te Ururoa Flavell, Hone Harawira, Monte Ohio, Atareta Poananga, Tariana Turia, Angeline Greensill (all unnamed). Inside are individidual portraits, and the party's policies on Tiriti o Waitangi (Atareta Poananga), Health and Wellbeing (Te Ururoa Flavell), Education (Pita Sharples), Employment and Training (Hone Harawira), Environment (Angeline Greensill), Whanau First (Monte Ohio) and Poverty (Tariana Turia). Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, on pamphlet folded to 420 x 297 mm.
Winter, Mark, 1958- :Faux pas. Totem gestures. SIS. 23. 11. [20]04
Date: 2004
From: Winter, Mark 1958- :[Cartoons published in the Southland Times between 23 August 2004 and 15 January 2005]
Reference: A-370-082
Description: An SIS man disguised as a large Maori carving. Refer to a report that the SIS had been spying on the Maori Party. A photocopy version of the same drawing is numbered A-370-082-a Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Ink on A4 size paper. Photocopy on A4 size paper
Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :The new political dynamic. National Business Review, 7 ...
Date: 2005
From: Various artists :Collection of photocopies, newspaper clippings and bromides of cartoons by Bromhead (A-314-1), Brockie (A-314-2) and J. C. Hill (A-314-3).
By: National Business Review Ltd
Reference: A-314-2-081
Description: Helen Clark, leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, as a charioteer in the 'Labour' chariot, is cracking her whip over four 'horses' - a sheep representing the United Future Party, a dog representing Jim Anderton and his Progressive Party, a turkey representing the New Zealand Green Party and a pig representing the Maori Party. She is trying to drive them towards 'the promised land' (of government). The general election in September 2005 had produced no clear result as no party had won a majority but, as leader of the party that had gained the most votes, Clark was in the process of building support from amongst the minor parties to put together a government. Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping.. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping 200 x 270 mm.
Hubbard, James 1949- :I'm waiting for Mr Right...and Left..and Centre... Dominion Post,...
Date: 2005
By: Hubbard, James, 1949-; Dominion post (Newspaper)
Reference: A-317-085
Description: Labour Party leader Helen Clark, caretaker prime minister of New Zealand after the September 2005 election, as a bride on a church pew, is looking to form a goverment with the support of the minor parties - from right, or left or centre of the political spectrum. Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping.. Physical Description: Newsclipping, 160 x 240 mm.