Rape victims

Date: 1983

From: [Ephemera and posters of A2 size relating to sexual abuse, rape and assault. 1980-1990s]

By: Young Women's Christian Association of Aotearoa-New Zealand

Reference: Eph-D-SEXUAL-ABUSE-1983-01

Description: Poster shows a head and shoulders illustration of a grimacing woman coloured green, against a magenta background. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, 553 x 397 mm. Provenance: Donated by Andrea Tangohau, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: 2006

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to the justice system and process]

Reference: Eph-A-JUSTICE-2006-01

Description: Illegally distributed flier breaching name suppression order. It protests that Clint Rickards, Bob Schollom and Brad Shipton were acquitted of the rape of Louise Nicholas owing to suppression of information to the jurors. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy on flier, 145 x 110 mm.

Date: 1984 - 1991

From: [Ephemera and posters of A2 size relating to sexual abuse, rape and assault. 1980-1990s]

By: Wellington Independent Rape Crisis Centre

Reference: Eph-D-SEXUAL-ABUSE-1980s-01

Description: Poster shows a large black and white photograph of an ear with a tear trickling from its inner corner. Date estimated as 1980s, because the phone number has only 6 digits, beginning with an 8. Such numbers were prefixed by a "3" in about 1991. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 420 x 600 mm.

Date: 1985

From: [Programmes and fliers relating to plays and dramatic performances in New Zealand. 1985].

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-1985-01

Description: An appeal by playwright and theatre producer Mervyn Thompson to the women who had campaigned to stop production of his play, because of his alleged "anti-women" attitudes. A group of women had physically attacked him on 1 February 1984. Quantity: 1 typescript pamphlet. Physical Description: Typescript on two sheets 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Maria Heenan in 2004.

Date: 1980 - 1989

By: Women Against Pornography (Organization : N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-SEXUAL-HARASSMENT-WAP

Description: Includes: "Pornography free zone" stickers. Stagecraft Theatre presents "Masterpieces", by Sarah Daniels, directed by Christine Hunt. 21 April - 1 May 1993. Flier. Pacific Island Traditional Counselling Abuse Project (Inc). Introduction to the project. 1980s. "Pornography is violence against women" Sticker. "This is women hating". Sheet of four identical stickers. Sheet of four statements about rape, on fluorescent orange sticker. Women Against Pornography. "Women - how do men see you?". Leaflet [1980s?] Women reclaim the night. Friday June 29th [1990]. Pamphlet. "Sexual harassment free zone" stickers (2 sizes, 2 copies of each) Auckland Rape Crisis Centre, 63 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby. Pamphlet [1980s]. HELP Foundation, Newton. This pamphlet is about sexual assault. [1980s] YWCA Sue Lytollis Self defence courses. Learn self defence now. [1980s]. Pamphlet. Old male tales. Rapist are to blame for rape. Rape Awareness Week, 3-7 November [1980s?]. Pamphlet. Rape; a male problem. Men Against Rape. Pamphlet [1980s?] Quantity: 15 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (approx). Physical Description: Photolithographs on sheets, sizes varying araound 250 x 180 mm. Provenance: Donated by Women Against Pornography, via the Wellington Independent Rape Crisis Centre, in 2004. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Related material from this accession is in Oral History OHColl-0753, and Manuscripts MS-Group-1307..

Date: 1976

From: [Ephemera, posters relating to women, women's rights, employment, social status. 1970-1977]

Reference: Eph-C-WOMEN-1976-04

Description: Shows a row of men with dark glasses and large noses flanking a devilish figure caricaturing Dr Erich Geiringer who points down to a prone female figure. This refers to the acquittal of Dr Geiringer on a charge of rape in May 1976. Two copies held, one on yellow paper and one on red. The yellow one is the one for which there is a colour transparency available. Other Titles - Malepractice, malpractice Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on coloured sheet 352 x 243 mm.

Date: 1980

From: [Ephemera, posters of A3 size, relating to women, women's rights, employment, social status. 1980]

By: Alston, Sharon Kathleen, 1948-1995

Reference: Eph-C-WOMEN-1980-04

Description: Shows a knife stuck into what may be flesh, with a dark splattered wall behind. Note on back of file print says: "Poster designed by Sharon Alston, 1980, sponsored by YWCA. Source: Poster exhibition at Women's Gallery, Wellington, 22 April - 7 May 1981". Two copies held Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 500 x 378 mm. Provenance: One copy acquired in 1984, one donated from the collection of Fran Richardson in 2002.

Date: 1980 - 1989

Reference: Eph-B-SEXUAL-HARASSMENT-WAP

Description: Includes: "Women reclaim the night". March Friday 28th October. Posters [1983 or 1988?] Image or reality? Should pornography be outlawed? Forum, Wed March 27 [1985?]. Flier. Stickers mounted on card: "History is not her story", "Is your husband a rapist?", People are womin too", "Equality is making him sleep on the wet patch", "This shop sells woman hatred", Stop rape", "Destroy pornography", "Rape manual", "Stop! This is offensive, insulting, and degrading to women", "One man's Sunday dinner is one womin's Sunday gone". [1980s] Quantity: 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on sheets, sizes varying around 300 x 210 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Related material from this accession is in Oral History OHColl-0753, and Manuscripts MS-Group-1307..

Date: 1983

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: H-719-023

Description: A gigantic judge speaks from over his bench to a very small woman looking up at him and holding a handbag labelled 'rape victims'. This implies that the law is prejudiced against the rights of rape victims. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies newspaper clipping.. Physical Description: Newspaper cutting 130 x 155 mm.

Date: 8 March 2007

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000169

Description: Photographs of a demonstration against the treatment of rape cases by police and the courts, taken 8 March 2007 by Dylan Owen. Shows protestors gathered in Civic Square, marching to the Central Police Station on Victoria Street and walking along Lambton Quay to the High Court on Molesworth Street. The protest was in response to two trials at the High Court at Auckland where Clint Rickards, Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum were found not guilty of indecent assault and rape Quantity: 98 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2007

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0008345

Description: "The Jitterati" cartoon strip. Shows Jaimee and Debbie discussing the thin blue line of female police officers at the protest last week. Jaimee can't work out if it was an act of breathtaking cynicism or clumsy sincerity. Debbie says she is going with 'Clumsy sincerity'. Jaimee agrees for the sake of their souls is should be. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Twitter Inc (Firm); Facebook (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0025650

Description: A woman goes to the Dubai Police asking for help since she has been raped. The Police state that she is now under arrest for sex outside of marriage. Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'Dubai's treatment of rape victims is effectively a crime in itself. And there's no change on the horizon'. In July 2013 a Norwegian woman who had complained of being raped was charged by a Dubai court under Sharia law of extra-marital sex. Published on Martin Doyle's cartoon Facebook site (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Martin-Doyle/607865899238901?ref=hl) and Twitter (Twitter@Mart_cartoons) 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: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0026240

Description: A be-wigged judge in his full robes states "I believe it was the foolishness of the victims venturing out alone at night, dressed as they were that led the jury to acquit the man on two indecent assault charges". In the background two sinister men approach him. One says "Hey, let's roll that silly old git in the frock and the funny wig!" Cartoon inspired by a number of New Zealand court cases, and a specific case in Auckland, where defendants accused of rape claimed that the victim dressed provocatively and had taken 'risky' behaviour by walking alone at night. The wider context refers to the public discussions around 'victim shaming' and 'victim blaming'. Accompanying note from cartoonist states: 'Women's suffrage week and Justice Priestley explains jury's acquittal of man on indecent assault on two young women. Didn't run in any paper.' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0026673

Description: One citizen in a park and reading a newspaper remarks to another 'They're saying those ratbags did what they did because they were afraid of being called gay!' The other replies 'Whatever happened to a fear of being called the accused?' On 13 November 2013 a psychologist, Neville Robertson, from the University of Waikato, said that some boys grow up in a culture where it is important to show they're macho, and don't want to risk being seen as effeminate or gay. Such motives could outweigh a fear of breaking the law, as could have happened with the Roast Busters. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026684

Description: Hanging from a RadioLive microphone are two earphones labelled 'JT' and 'WJ'. On 11 November 2013 RadioLive announced that Willie Jackson and John Tamihere would not return to RadioLIVE for the rest of 2013. Six major advertisers announced that they had pulled advertising. The move comes after hosts Willie Jackson and John Tamihere interviewed a friend of an alleged victim of the Roast Busters group and seemed to be victim- blaming and supporting rape culture Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0026672

Description: Radio talkback hosts Willie Jackson and John Tamihere ('JT'), both very casually dressed, walk away disconsolately after their sacking by Radio? Willie Jackson says 'Can you believe it?! Sacked for suggesting a young rape victim was a willing partner!' To which John Tamihere replies 'Maybe it was because the clothes we were wearing!' On 11 November 2013 , following protests from their sponsors and public their employers, RadioLive, told Willie Jackson and John Tamihere that they would not return as talk back hosts to RadioLIVE for the rest of 2013. This was following their controversial interview with a teenage girl over the Roast Busters sex scandal. Among other allegations against the girl involved, they brought up the accusation that the victim by wearing provocative clothing had increased her chance of being raped. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 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); Waikato Times (Newspaper); Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0026785

Description: Under the caption 'The trouble with young girls is... / a few expert opinions,' the cartoonist presents a variety of male perspectives on the rape of young girls by members of the Roast Busters gang in Auckland. The cartoon critiques perspectives that place the blame on the girls themselves, rather than on their rapists. In one panel, two men say, "They drink to much!" while having another round themselves. In the second panel, radio broadcaster John Tamihere says, "They call a bit of mischeif 'rape'", and his co-host Willie Jackson replies, "Yep J.T. and then they all start saying it". In a third panel, two members of the Roast Busters gang ask for the question to be repeated, and one tries to get a photo of himself. In the final panel of the cartoon, two police officers discuss the case. One says, "They don't come forward with complaints, do they Supt?" and the other replies, "Well, four did sir, but remember, we didn't like the way they were dressed." Cartoon references the Roast Busters gang in West Auckland, who maintained a Facebook page where they boasted of having sex with intoxicated underage girls, some as young as thirteen. Although official complaints were made, and police eventually identified 35 men of interest between the ages of 17 and 25, no formal charges were laid against the assailants. Radio Live hosts Willie Jackson and John Tamihere were stood down in November 2013 following on air comments in which they questioned the habits and dress of a friend of an alleged survivor of rape. (See 3News.co.nz, 11 Nov 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0025466

Description: Against a background referring to the recent military coup in Egypt against the elected government of Mohamed Morsi, two women comment. One says 'Things must be pretty bad in Egypt if a military coup is genuinely worth celebrating'. The other says 'They are and it is'. Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'Irrespective of all other issues in Egypt, the use of rape as a political weapon is chilling. Why does this phenomenon of Tahrir Square get so little media attention?' During the protests against President Morsi in Tahrir Square in July 2013, many women were raped by counter-deminstrators, led by President Morsi's party, the Islamic Brotherhood. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0029729

Description: Cartoon shows Minnie Mouse standing on a pedistal instead of the ancient Greek goddess of Justice, Themis. She holds a set of scales in one hand, and a sword in the other, which has sliced through a piece of paper labeled, 'Roastbuster cases'. Cartoon refers to an announcement by Police on 29 October 2014 that no charges would be laid against a group of males aged 17 to 25 who boasted online that they had had sex with intoxicated underage girls. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2015

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0030788

Description: Cartoon shows a car full of Waitemata policemen dressed as the fictional incompetent 'Keystone Cops' hitting a sign saying 'Caution: Roastbusters.' Refers to an Independent Police Conduct Authority report outlining failures of the Waitemata police staff involved in investigating the 'Roastbusters' sex abuse allegations. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).