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Date: 2010

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0015843

Description: The cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key and Minister for Local Government Rodney Hide, who are horrified at the Frankenstein monster they have created that represents the Auckland 'Super City'. The monster has snapped the leather straps that held it down in the science laboratory and is now rising up repeating the mantra 'Consultation... inclusive... public transport...' Refers to the official launch of the supercity with the 9th of October local body elections in which Len Brown was elected mayor. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017618

Description: A large aeroplane from the 'Big Spender Airlines' fleet stands on the tarmac. At the bottom of the carpeted stairs into the plane is a notice that reads 'Royals, MPs and others on public money perks'. Nearby a man reads a paper with the headline 'PM - MPs in high-stress jobs' and beside him is another paper with a headline that reads 'Need to take wives, girlfriends, partners on holiday with them'. Context - Rodney Hide's attack on the use of expenses and perks by politicians and his own use of taxpayers' money to fund his girlfriend's expenses on a recent international trip. Published in Whangarei Report Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0013939

Description: The cartoon shows Rodney Hide, the Minister for Local Government, saying that he can 'honestly say that plans privatising Auckland supercity infrastructure have been taken off the table'. On the table nearby is a guillotine with the words 'Public assets sale' painted on the blade. Refers to proposals to create seven council-controlled organisations (CCOs) to manage most of Auckland's services and government legislation being set up to deal with it. Green MP Sue Kedgley says that it should be left up to the newly-elected council to decide whether it wants to set up any CCOs, not the government. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017688

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. A colleague is outraged that the minister did not support his leader in the leadership coup after he had said that he would. The minister's reply is 'Ten minutes is a long time in politics'. Context - the ACT party is in disaray after former leader of the National Party overturned ACT leader Rodney Hide and took over as ACT leader in a fairly bloodless coup. Some ACT colleagues did not support Rodney Hide as might have been expected. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017858

Description: Two men stand on the balcony of a tall building in Epsom using a telescope to spot John Banks who is heading their way. Context - The Act Party is refusing to reveal if anyone other than former Auckland City mayor John Banks has put their name forward to be the party's candidate for Epsom. The incumbent Rodney Hide does not have the backing of new ACT leader, Don Brash. . 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-0014392

Description: ACT leader and Minister for Local Government, Rodney Hide, is dressed as a Roman soldier and carries a huge axe on his back. A man who represents 'Local Government' leaps through three hoops that represent 'Fiscal envelope', 'Core activities' and 'Decision-making' into a small bucket of water labelled 'Re-election'. Rodney Hide laughs like maniac and from a flame-thrower that represents 'changes to Local Government Act' he fires a blast after the man whose pants catch fire. Refers to the 'supercity' and the debate over the formation of the council and the election of mayor. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017609

Description: The cartoon shows a definition of the word 'brash'. It reads 'brash, aggressive noun, rash, pushy, tactless or in this case, ACTless, the antithesis of Hide, party animal any party - lacking discernment, having leadership aspirations for the Don of a new error'. Context - former National Party leader Don Brash has taken over the leadership of the ACT Party in a coup, throwing ACT leader Rodney Hide out. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0017775

Description: Former National Party leader Don Brash rises as a vampire from his tomb and grabs ACT leader Rodney Hide by the throat. The headstone for the tomb features a statue of Roger Douglas and bears the words 'Lest we forget - Rogernomics'. Don Brash says 'ACT needs fresh blood and I need fresh brains...' Context - Don Brash has ousted Rodney Hide from the leadership of the ACT Party and taken over the role himself. Roger Douglas is now an ACT MP but is famous (or infamous, depending on you point of view) for his monetarist market forces economic reforms, dubbed Rogernomics, when he was Minister of Finance in David Lange's Labour government in 1984. Don Brash is very committed to similar thinking on economics policies.. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0017718

Description: Text reads 'Warning to farmers - wild animals killing stock!'It continues with lengthy text that suggest that a prize bull on the Molesworth (St.) Station has been viciously killed by having its head ripped off, its guts removed and its 'hide' ripped off in a 'brash' attack. Context - this is a metaphor for the trouncing of former ACT leader Rodney Hide by former National leader Don Brash who has taken over the role himself. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0017239

Description: A policeman stops a queue of politicians at a checkpoint in Christchurch saying 'Sorry, no politics past this point'. In the queue are Prime Minister John Key, Minister of Finance Bill English carrying a ledger, leader of ACT Rodney Hide wearing his yellow jacket and carrying an axe and a saw and lastly leader of the Labour Party Phil Goff. Context - the Christchurch earthquake of 22 February 2011 and the danger of political point-scoring rather than serious co-operative work to rebuild Christchurch. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0016334

Description: Cartoon is in three parts. In the first, ACT Party leader Rodney Hide putting a cat with the face of Heather Roy into a rubbish bin (refers to Rodney Hide's replacement of hid deputy Heather Roy with John Boscawen). In the second cartoon, Minister of Justice Simon Power is shown holding aloft a glass engraved with the words 'Drink Law Reform' and wishing he could make 'alcopops this insipid'. In the third, two rats representing 'Hanover' and 'Bridgecorp' finance companies are shown staring at a smug 'South Canterbury' bunny and wondering 'what's he got that we didn't have' (refers to Canterbury Finance investors being compensated by the government). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017692

Description: Text reads 'When Rodney awoke that morning, he became aware of someone else in the room...' The cartoon shows former ACT leader Rodney Hide sitting in a hospital bed with former National Party leader Don Brash beside him. Do Brash asks whether Rodney Hide is aware that he had a major fall in the night. Context - the ACT party is in disarray after former leader of the National Party overturned ACT leader Rodney Hide and took over as ACT leader in a fairly bloodless coup. Published on the on the Scoop nationwide website. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017753

Description: Former ACT leader Rodney Hide fronts up at the enrolment desk for a seminar called 'Plan for life after parliament'. The man at the desk tells Hide that 'Don has already put your name down'. Context - Don Brash has ousted Rodney Hide from the leadership of the ACT Party and taken over the role himself. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0016913

Description: Leader of the ACT Party Rodney Hide relaxes on the psychiatrist's couch and tells the psychiatrist that 'ACT belives that widespread catastrophic changes in climate is not proof of climate change...' A newspaper lying on the floor has a headline reading 'Record floods, record snow, record drought'. The psychiatrist wonders whether Mr Hide is familiar with the term 'in denial'. ACT leader Rodney Hide has said climate change and global warming was a hoax. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012124

Description: Shows a 'buffoon' wearing a jester' cap. Text reads 'Rodney Hide would not take offence after Tau Henare called him a "buffoon" and a "jerk-off"...' The 'buffoon' says 'But us buffoons and jerk-offs do'. Refers to Tau Henare's expressing of his disapproval of Rodney Hide's threat to resign as Local Government Minister if the Government approved separate Maori seats on a new Auckland super city council. There is a word play on 'pays' and 'days'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0011492

Description: Rodney Hide, Minister of Local Government, stands on a stage dressed in a tiny pair of swimming trunks and shows off his slim waist and huge biceps as he shows to his astonished audience an image of himself before his makeover. 'Today, slimming for councils the Rodney way' and refers to his efforts to make city councils more fiscally accountable.. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014429

Description: Shows a man who represents the 'Super City Bill Select Committee' who with a large pair of shears is cutting all the feathers off the Minister for Local Government Rodney Hide. Rodney Hide laughs at the headless and plucked chicken beside him who represents the 'Auckland ratepayers' and says that it could be worse, he could have ended up looking like the headless chicken. Refers to the new Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill that has just been tabled in Parliament. Two thirds of Auckland's city services will still be run by unelected Council Controlled Organisations and local boards do not have powers enshrined by law. CCOs must hold their meetings in public and their minutes and decisions will be made public. Local boards will still have control over their patch and the Auckland Council cannot take their powers without an agreement. Mr Hide said the Auckland Council will appoint the chair and deputy chair of the CCOs and will be able to fire the entire board from day one. People are concerned about what seems like an undemocratic solution to the managing of Auckland. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017844

Description: Rodney Hide, who has been overturned as ACT leader by Don Brash, appears as Superman, but, against a background of skyscrapers, is falling from a very high building. Context - Don Brash took control of the ACT Party after a bloodless coup. Title supplied by librarian The cartoon was drawn to accompany an article called 'When there's no success like failure' in the 'Nick Smith on business' column in the NZ Herald 6 May 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016286

Description: The cartoon is an 'NBR Advent Calendar' (National Business Review). In a snowy Christmasy scene can be seen the Beehive, holly, reindeer, and many politicians having Christmas fun (or not). Context; Maori MP Hone Harawira in a grass skirt throws a snowball at Finance Minister Bill English, PM John Key conducts Minister of Social development Paula Bennett who is singing carols and ACT leader Rodney Hide sings beside her with his music upside-down, A judge throws ex Minister of Womens and Ethnic Affairs Pansy Wong out of a window in a bucket of water and ex Labour MP Chris Carter throws himself from a window. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0012326

Description: Cartoon shows Prime Minister, Phil Goff in a can of worms labelled 'John's electoral system turmoil' and Minister for Local Government, Rodney Hide, in a second can of worms labelled 'Rodney's Chunky Auckland Super City Chaos'. In the background is a third can labelled 'Ministerial Housing Rort'. John Key says that if you hold your nose and shut your eyes they are yum. Refers to the decision that the Government will spend millions of dollars holding a referendum on whether MMP should be dumped - a system Prime Minister John Key thinks New Zealanders are increasingly comfortable with. Mr Key said National would hold the referendum to honour its election pledge and let people "kick the tyres" of the electoral system. Refers also to the rows over the supercity which are about Maori representation on the council and how much of Auckland is included among other things. Published in the Listener Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).