Mayors - Public opinion

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0026465

Description: Shows Auckland Mayor Len Brown reading a newspaper with the headline 'Bledisloe cup blitz'. An assistant says "Don't you just love the All Blacks your worship?" Brown replies "Anything! That can get me off the front page!" while also thinking 'Get hundreds of Aucklanders into homes and the media don't want to know - but get just one into a hotel...' Refers to the All Blacks win against Australia in the third and final Bledisloe Cup test on 19 October, making it a headline-grabbing 3-0 series win. Also refers to revelations that Auckland Mayor Len Brown had a two-year affair, and the public censure and wide media coverage that resulted. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0026464

Description: A four panel cartoon in which two men in suits walk down a corridor, passing an unseen couple in the third frame, with one man saying: "Personally, I can't see why a mayor should resign from public office for... some misdemeanour in his private life. After all, that sort of thing... has always gone on... Oops!! Sorry your worship!! Excuse us Madam!! ...in the corridors of power." Refers to revelations that Auckland Mayor Len Brown had a two-year affair, which was followed by public censure and calls for his resignation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026495

Description: The re-elected mayor of Auckland, Len Brown, shouting 'Im still here!', flies through the air as Superman. From Auckland City come exclamations: 'It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Len Brown'. Brown's Superman costume covers only the top half of his body, leaving his lower part exposed. Brown was re-elected mayor of Auckland in October 2013. Days after his re-election stories broke regarding Brown having an extra-marital affair with a younger woman, Bevan Chuang, who served on an Auckland Council advisory board. Brown released a statement confirming the affair. Hence his nakedness below the waist. Cartoon refers to a comic book character, Superman, and also to the common term 'Super-City', used for the enlarged Auckland City. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0025298

Description: Against the background of a devastated Christchurch, Gerry Brownlee as a bull tosses the Mayor of Christchurch, Bob Parker, while the Deputy Mayor, Ngaire Button, as a hapless toreador attempts to restrain him. In June 2013, Gerry Brownlee, the Minister for Earthquake Recovery, clashed bitterly with the Mayor of Christchurch, Bob Parker and with his deputy, Ngaire Button over trhe delay in the issuing of building consents for the Christchurch Rebuild (Stuff.nz) Title from file name Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0021073

Description: Two visitors are shown Auckland Mayor Len Brown's official chair - it is a fence. In the rubbish bin are documents relating to the Ports of Auckland industrial dispute and on the desk is a document about the 'convention centre deal'. The fence is where the mayor sits when making hard decisions. Context: The mayor refused to involve himself in the Ports of Auckland dispute when a large number of Aucklanders were threatened with job loss. In exchange for Skycity's building a new convention centre the Government is expected to change gambling laws to allow the casino to have 500 more poker machines. Len Brown supports the government deal for the new convention centre but has concerns that Sky City is not doing enough to address gambling problems. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).