Shearer, David James, 1957-

Date: 2000 - 2004

By: New Zealand Labour Party

Reference: Eph-B-NZ-LABOUR-2000/2004

Description: Includes pamphlets, brochures and ephemera about the policies and strategies of the New Zealand Labour Party, Labour's women cabinet ministers, Labour's young candidates, Labour's gay and transgender politicians, and pamphlets and fliers for the following politicians: Helen Clark (Prime Minister) Russell Fairbrother (Napier) Phil Goff (Mt Roskill) Marian Hobbs (Wellington Central) Graham Kelly (Mana) John Kennedy (Nelson) Winnie Laban Trevor Mallard (Wainuiomata) Mahara Okeroa (Te Tai Tonga) Lynne Pillay (Waitakere) David Shearer Dianne Yates (Hamilton) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on fliers and pamphlets, sizes varying below 330 mm.

Date: 2002

By: New Zealand Labour Party

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-LABOUR-2002

Description: Comprises cards and fliers about the policies of the Labour Party, from 2002. Includes flier "A strong voice for Pacific peoples" (showing Mark Gosche, Luamanuvao Winnie Laban, David Maka and Taito Phillip Field) Includes pamphlets for the following electoral candidates: Richard Barker (Hastings) David Benson-Pope (Dunedin South) Georgina Beyer (Wairarapa, 1999) Gill Boddy-Greer (Ohariu-Belmont) Chris Carter (Te Atatu) Harry Duynhoven (New Plymouth) Russell Fairbrother (Napier) Margaret Hayward (Rangitikei) Marian Hobbs (Wellington Central) Darren Hughes (Otaki) Annette King Damien O'Connor (West Coast / Tasman) David Shearer (Whangarei) Judith Tizard (Auckland Central) Dianne Yates (Hamilton). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 63 pieces of ephemera. Physical Description: Photolithographs on fliers and cards, sizes varying below 200 mm.

Date: 2012

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020264

Description: The voter is thankful that the elections are over, David Shearer the new Labour leader is grateful that he has time now to build up the Labour Party and Prime Minister John Key can proceed with his plans. He holds a banner that reads 'Assets 4 sale'. Context: Refers to the government's controversial intention to sell off some or parts of some state assets to raise revenue. Prime Minister John Key believes the Government could free up as much as $10 billion from the partial sale of key assets including state owned power companies and a stake in Air New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0011126

Description: David Shearer, the Labour candidate for the Mt Albert seat that has been the seat of former Prime Minister Helen Clark, arrives by parachute. Now that Helen Clark has taken up her new position as leader of the United Nations Development Programme her Mount Albert seat in Auckland has become vacant and so a bye-election will take place. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022509

Description: Shows David Shearer, Leader of the Opposition (Labour Party), and has half shorn sheep. Refers to Shearer being behind in the popularity polls. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0011471

Description: Prime Minister John Key and Leader of the opposition Phil Goff stand on a ledge half way up a tall peak named Mt Albert. Phil Goff checks that David (Shearer) is all right as he disappears higher up the mountain and John Key yells down to Melissa (Lee) to get her finger out as she struggles to catch up. Refers to Labour Party candidate David Shearer's resounding victory in the Mt Albert bye-election over National's candidate, Melissa Lee. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0011475

Description: Caricature of David Shearer, successful candidate in the Mt Albert Bye-election. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0011045

Description: Shows two soldiers in a bombed out area in Baghdad, one of who has his binoculars trained on New Zealand where David Shearer is seen to be leaving suicide bombings, snipers, sectarian violence and civil war for a snipe at Mt Albert. David Shearer is currently the UN Secretary-General's deputy special representative to Iraq and has been selected as Labour's candidate in Helen Clark's Mt Albert seat. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0025593

Description: Depicts an elderly lady called Dorothy standing in her hallway on the telephone to Prime Minister John Key. In her living room a newspaper with the headline 'The GCSB debate' is lying on the armchair. Refers to comments by Key that he would commit to a future review of intelligence agencies in the controversial Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill. Labour Party Leader David Shearer said that if Key was serious about negotiating on the bill that Key should pick up the phone and call him (see New Zealand Herald 9 July 2013). Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025598

Description: The Secretary tells The Aide that the media are more interested in the manner of the Minister's utterances rather than what he says. The Aide replies that since he talks 'mostly rubbish', they should be thankful. Refers to several politicians, but particularly the Prime Minister and the then leader of the opposition, David Shearer, both of whom had particular mannerisms of speech. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025611

Description: Depicts Journalist Duncan Garner doing his political commentary slot in the Radio Live studio about a possible challenge to David Shearer for leadership of the Labour Party. Refers to Garner saying that his speculation on a leadership coup came from 'word from the inside' of the Labour Party (see Radio Live 10 July 2013). Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0025757

Description: Depicts Labour Party Leader David Shearer as a bird handler with a vulture on his wrist. The vulture is dripping blood from it's beak and is labelled 'Caucus". Refers to rumours that Shearer would be challenged for leadership of the Labour Party (see Stuff 10 July 2913). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0025759

Description: Depicts the red 'Labour' car screeching on the road after an abrupt u-turn into an unsealed side road signposted as 'Coup rumours, silly side issues, going nowhere'. It has already passed signposts to sealed highways 'Asset sales', 'Solid energy', 'Pike river highway', 'Jobs', 'Power prices'. Refers to unrest within the Labour Party and rumours of a leadership coup against David Shearer (see National Business Review 22 July 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-: Digital cartoons published in The Press, Sunday Star Times, Dominion Post, and other publications

By: Dominion post (Newspaper); Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0025878

Description: Drawn in the style of Salvador Dali and titled after one of his lithographs, the cartoon shows the leader of the opposition, David Shearer as a disembodied head, lacking all potency and supported by multiple props. Two Labour Party supporters are holding further props. One asks 'Where shall I shove this one?' The other looks anxiously at a floppy clock ticking relentlessly to the election. By July 2013, with the Labour Party, and David Shearer in particular, lagging in public opinion polls, supporters were wearying of the attempts to prop up his leadership as an alternative to that of the government. With a year and half to the election, cutting their losses and installing a new leader seemed the more viable option. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0025844

Description: The leader of the Opposition, David Shearer, advertises the Labour Party housing policies, situated at No 1 Leadership Crisis Lane. The policies feature 'Policial plank construction! Left facing! In the xenophobic zone! Poor Sheng fui! Desperate vendor!' The cartoonist's comment is 'A do up!' On 28 July 2013, David Shearer, then leader of the Labour Party, announced a policy of restricting foreign ownership of existing housing, but with exemptions for Australian buyers. This proposal to provide a partial solution to the housing crisis was decried as being borrowed from the 'left' Green Party, being anti-Asian, and merely an attempt to improve Shearer's image as a leader. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0025937

Description: Shows a man walking away carrying a flag marked 'L', leaving behind a dead skeletal horse with the Labour party's mark on the saddle. Uses the popular saying 'flogging a dead horse' to pass comment on the resignation of Labour party leader David Shearer on 22 August, saying that he did not think he had the support of his caucus. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0025938

Description: Shows Labour Party leader David Shearer holding up two dead and decaying fish labelled 'left' and 'right'. Refers to Shearer's announcement on 22 August that he would step down as leader of the Labour party as he did not think he had the support of his caucus. Also refers to an incident on 20 August where Shearer brandished two dead snapper in parliament during a debate on the reduction of snapper quotas. The intention was to demonstrate the difference in fish size in relation to discrepancies in the legislation. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Nelson mail (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025953

Description: Shows David Shearer in a small life-boat rowing away from a larger ship carrying the Labour Party's flag and filled with rats. Shearer asks: "I thought the rats were supposed to leave the ship?" Prime Minister John Key is shown fishing on a desert island. Refers to the resignation of Labour leader, David Shearer, on 22 August 2013, saying he did not think he had the support of his caucus. The cartoonist refers to the perception that Shearer was 'too nice' for politics. The cartoonist may also refer to John Key's political isolation, with National facing a decreasing number of political allies with whom to form a coalition. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0025959

Description: Shows Labour Party leader David Shearer as a fisherman, who has lost two fish labelled 'leadership' and 'polls'. Refers to the announcement by Shearer on 22 August that he would resign as leader and to his failed move to draw attention to discussions around modifications to the snapper fishing quota when he held up two dead snapper during a parliamentary debate on 20 August - a move that drew widespread ridicule in the media. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Bell, Jeff, 1978-: Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025999

Description: Cartoon shows leader of the Labour Party, David Shearer, as a movie theatre usher, standing beside a small building labelled, 'Labour housing policy', and inviting people towards it. Meanwhile, a crowd of people ignore Shearer, and instead flock to a movie theatre in the distance, where banners read, 'Now playing - Fonterra Disaster, Royal Baby, Spying Scandal.' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).