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Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017523

Description: In the top frame Labour Party leader Phil Goff says 'Damien O'Connor's tirade against gays and Trade Unionists in the Labour Party must be condemned strongly, so I say, Tisk! Tisk!' A supporter says 'That's the best you can do? Comeon Phil, harden up' and so Phil Goff says 'Okay, okay, okay, Gimme a break, geez 'Tisk! Tisk! And Tisk!' Context - Labour MP Damien O'Connor has said sorry after lashing out about a "gaggle of gays" and "self-serving unionists" having too much control over the party. The cartoon suggests that Phil Goff didn't wholly disapprove of the sentiments expressed. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016269

Description: National Party Minister of Ethnic Affairs and Women's Affairs is thrown from a plane labeled 'Cabinet' by Prime Minister John Key who says 'Sorry Pansy... this is one flight you won't be taking!' Below a seal at Kaikoura says 'I thought humans were warm-blooded creatures like us... not cold blooded killers!!' Refers to the resignation of Minister of Women's Affairs Pansy Wong from her portfolio after it was revealed that on a trip to China in 2008 her husband Sammy Wong was involved in a business deal. An independent investigation of travel claims by Mrs Wong and her husband Sammy was ordered by Speaker Lockwood. The trip was made with a 90 percent taxpayer-funded rebate on their airfares, and it is against the rules to use the allowance for private business. Mrs Wong has apologised and paid back the $474 rebate for the China trip. An Auditor-General's inquiry called for by the Labour opposition is not considered necessary. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0011949

Description: Shows Sir Geoffrey Palmer beside himself with excitement as he describes the drunken debauched behaviour of young people in Courtenay Place while he was chairing a review of liquor laws. He says THAT IT WAS ALMOST AS BAD AS THE LABOUR CAUCUS FROM 1975 TO 1984. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017532

Description: The cartoon shows Labour MP Damien O'Connor shooting himself in the foot but unfortunately the bullet ricochets and hits Labour (Ric O'Chet) right where it hurts. Context - Labour Party MP Damien O'Connor ranted about a "gaggle of gays" and "self-serving unionists" having too much control over the party list; he was blaming the list process and the influence of union and rainbow sector groups for skewing the list against him and other rural and provincial-based candidates. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017377

Description: The cartoon shows Philip Taito Field leaving a court house; behind the door hides a mischievous-looking 'toff' who is about to give him whiskey and a gun. Context - The 'Nick Smith on business' column entitled 'Cheaper justice in a bottle of Scotch'. Nick Smith says 'It makes me pine for that kinder, gentler age when serious issues of political corruption were dealt with quietly and efficiently. Back in the day, according to some Tory toffs, you simply supplied a bottle of Scotch and a gun to the miscreant and off he went into the night'. He is commenting on Philip Taito Field's long drawn out and very expensive trial on corruption charges. Published in New Zealand Herald Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017859

Description: Caricature of Hone Harawira, who has started the new 'Mana Party'. He is shown as a baby in a plaid skirt and tam-o-shanter, breaking a patu in a tantrum. Context - The cartoonist says 'Hone using past injustices to hide the fact that really all he is doing is trying to get power, he's presuming anger for europeans breaking his heritage spirit (patu) but he's really just a dysfunctional human'. The cartoon was drawn to illustrate an article written by Nick Smith called 'Backwards into the future' which looks at similarities between Maori and Scots politics. 'Both Maori and Scots political groups trade on a sense of tribal injustice: that the perfidious Pakeha or Sassenach, respectively, has committed and continues to commit a crime against an entire people'. (NZ Herald 20 May 2011) Title provided by librarian Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: New Zealand Press Association

Reference: DCDL-0017861

Description: The leader of the new Mana Party Hone Harawira appears as a baby being fed bile by his mother, Titewhai Harawira aho says 'num, num'. Context - Hone Harawira has left the Maori Party because of insurmountable differences and has formed the 'Mana Party' which is further out to the left. His mother Titewhai Harawira has always been a Maori activist but her pronouncements are becoming more extreme. Titewhai 'Harawira, mother of independent MP Hone Harawira, turned up at a Maori Party hui at Te Tii marae yesterday [8 May] and was reportedly yelling, swearing and singing over the top of other speakers'. Pita Sharples, co-leader of the Maori Party says her behaviour has 'just grown and grown and so in the end it's sort of like uncontrollable now." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016112

Description: PM John Key holds a card that reads 'Two Wongs don't make a right...' and thinks to himself that the 'travel perk' is 'nothing but "travel murk"'. Refers to the news that the PM says MP travel entitlements are to be abolished but MPs elected before 1990 will keep the perk - follows a demand by the public for transparency after several scandals (Pansy Wong most recently) over misuse of the entitlement. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017507

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister is shocked to hear that he has been put 'way down the party list'; he demands to know if 'self-serving unionists and gays' have been put ahead of him and is stunned into silence when he discovers that everyone has been put ahead of him. Context - Labour MP Damien O'Connor has said sorry after lashing out about a "gaggle of gays" and "self-serving unionists" having too much control over the party. Also when Darren Hughes was forced to resign as Labour's chief whip after a sexual misconduct accusation, there was much redistribution of the Labour Party list MPs to get Hughes replaced by Louisa Wall. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016103

Description: Deputy PM Bill English is on the phone to the PM reporting that he has 'sorted out the Pansy Wong problem'. There is a plank leading from Bill English's desk to the window-sill - clearly Pansy Wong has had to walk it. Refers to news that Pansy Wong, resigned her portfolios as Ethnic and Women's Affairs Minister because she broke the rules when she and her husband went to China and he conducted business while he was there. Pansy Wong is being further investigated. There are two private companies registered at Ms Wong's Botany electorate office in which Mr Wong has interests. Both colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0018810

Description: The cartoon shows a hand making an offensive gesture. Text says that 'If you're a visitor in Auckland and you see this jabbed at you by another motorist... relax - it's just Tau Henare (one of our MPs) saying hello.' Context: Refers to an incident in Auckland when Tau Henare gave the fingers to another driver and shouted abuse at her. He was driving a National Party car. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0016092

Description: In the House surrounded by MPs in their seats, a security guard holds an MP upside down by his ankles and shakes him so that food, cash, wine, an Air NZ plane and dancing girls fall out of his pockets. The Speaker, Lockwood Smith asks 'Would the dis-honourable member care to explain?' Refers to the continuing interest in the spending of taxpayers money as perks by MPs and has resulted in the special travel allowance being scrapped altogether after a demand by the public for transparency. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017025

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister is suddenly concerned about the lack of rental properties in the city because his son has had to move back to live with him. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017256

Description: A man sits glumly in his armchair watching the 'latest' on Charlie Sheen on television. On the floor is a newspaper with an article on Charlie Sheen. The man who has been made redundant wishes he 'got a fraction of his publicity in my redundancy package' Context - American actor Charlie Sheen, television's highest-paid actor, has been sacked from hit sitcom Two and a Half Men and accused of criminal behaviour. He has now taken to the web and a live UStream show to air his grievances. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005720

Description: Shows a female reporter chasing Bob Clarkson, National Party MP for Tauranga, and asking for his response to accusations that he is fascinated by his testicles. Refers to the accusation by Winston Peters against his competitor for the Tauranga electoral seat, during the 2005 General Election. Published in The Press Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.

Date: 2009

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017619

Description: Two men sit in a pub, each with a newspaper; one reads about 'Mindless vandalism - memorial wrecked after only 6 days' and 'Hone's emails' and the other reads about 'School pupils with Monday morn hangovers' and 'Girl soccer player banned'. The first man says 'I don't understand the young'ns of today... so much agression, flaunting of rules, disregard for morals, overuse of foul language...' and the other says 'they need someone in authority to set an example - be a role model. An MP for instance'. The first man says 'It was an MP that I was thinking of'. Context - the suggestion that MPs are often not very good role models for the young because of their own bad behaviour. Published in Whangarei Report Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017819

Description: Two men stand in front of the Beehive which is covered in what looks like blood. One of the men says 'I hear it's a bit rough in there - zat blood?' And the other replies 'Ink'. Context - Politics heating up and many words spilt as the budget approaches and as we move closer to the November election. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016096

Description: The words 'RIGHT CALL ... WONG NUMBER' appear in large print in the centre of the cartoon. The title reads 'Minister resigns'. Refers to news that Pansy Wong, resigned her portfolios as Ethnic and Women's Affairs Minister because she broke the rules when she and her husband went to China and he conducted business while he was there. Pansy Wong is being further investigated. There are also two private companies registered at Ms Wong's Botany electorate office in which Mr Wong has interests. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016773

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister tells his aide that he has pointed out to the leader that he has not misbehaved this year and so deserves to be promoted back to the front bench. His aide comments that it is only the 5th January. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016113

Description: A government official responsible for 'MPs travel perks' tells his assistant that he is 'searching for any more Wong doings'. Refers to news that Pansy Wong, resigned her portfolios as Ethnic and Women's Affairs Minister because she broke the rules when she and her husband went to China and he conducted business while he was there. Pansy Wong is being further investigated. There are two private companies registered at Ms Wong's Botany electorate office in which Mr Wong has interests. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).