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Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017463

Description: The cartoon shows leader of the Labour Party leader Phil Goff as a lobster; he eating sitting on a pie that represents the 'Darren Hughes Affair' chips and tomato sauce. Unfortunately the tomato sauce bottle has tipped over and several fish who represent the media are having a feeding frenzy in the sauce that represents a 'leadership coup'. Context - Phil Goff is doing badly in the polls with his leadership being increasingly questioned and now Darren Hughes, who was a rising star has been forced to resign as Labour's chief whip after a sexual misconduct accusation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Mulheron, Michael, 1958-: Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post

Reference: DCDL-0017413

Description: Leader of the Labour Party Phil Goff slips on a banana skin; in the background is the Beehive, and Labour's Chief Whip Darren Hughes walks away looking somewhat dejected. Context - Chief Labour Party whip Darren Hughes has been forced to resign after an 18 year old student laid a sex complaint with police. Police are still investigating. The mishandling of the affair by Phil Goff is yet another blow for the Labour Party as the November election approaches. The cartoon accompanies an article by Tracy Watkins in 'Political Week' - it is entitled 'Hughes' problem, Goff's nightmare'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017401

Description: Text at the top reads 'A fear crack'; a whip lashes across the cartoon and ends in the word 'Labour'. Below is the word 'WHIPLASH Hughes at fault?' A second version has text at the top reading 'A fear crack in election year' and below is the word 'LABOUR' with a fernleaf above and a whip lashing through it; below is the word 'whiplash!' A third version is the same as the first but has the text 'A fear crack in election year' at the top. Context - Chief Labour Party whip Darren Hughes has been forced to resign after an 18 year old student laid a sex complaint with police. Police are still investigating. This is yet another blow for the Labour Party as the November election approaches. There is a wordplay on 'whip' as in 'chief whip' and 'cracking whips'. Quantity: 3 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017468

Description: The word 'LABOURed' is in left top corner. Below are a number of speech bubbles that contain speeches from someone in the Labour Parliament trying to find new candidates 'Hey, just ringing to see if you want to come back to parliament' and a whole lot of excuses and refusals 'You're next on the list to replace Darren..' 'I think you've rung the wrong number', 'I'd rather take an enema'. Context - the poor polling of both Phil Goff, the Labour Party leader and the Labour Party as a whole after a series of misfortunes, gaffes and disasters like Darren Hughes, who was a rising star, forced to resign as Labour's chief whip after a sexual misconduct accusation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017405

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The politician says that it is the party president's fault if he thinks he ia always the last to know about sensitive caucus matters; he should check the politician's facebook page more often. Context - In the Darren Hughes affair it seems that Labour Party President Andrew Little only heard some time after the event. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017410

Description: In four frames a man watches the news on TV. He hears that 'Severe aftershocks continue as the demolition crew move into the red zone.. amidst the badly damaged infrastructure..' His wife offers him a cup of tea and assumes the report is about Christchurch but it is not, it is about 'Phil Goff & Labour' Context - Christchurch continues to have aftershocks following the February 22 earthquake and the Labour Party is suffering one bodyblow after another - the last being the Darren Hughes affair. This is disastrous for Labour because the 2011 election is in November. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017402

Description: Text above reads 'Hughes right & Hughes wrong?' (wordplay on 'Who's right and who's wrong?) Above the words 'LABOUR whiplash!' is a fernleaf ending in a lashing whip. Context - Chief Labour Party whip Darren Hughes has been forced to resign after an 18 year old student laid a sex complaint against him with police. Police are still investigating. This is yet another blow for the Labour Party as the November election approaches. The word 'whiplash' suggests an over-hasty reaction. 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: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017392

Description: Chief whip for the Labour Party, Darren Hughes, whips in a frenzy the naked back of Labour Party leader Phil Goff who thinks to himself 'That *!#* whip has to go!.. Context - Darren Hughes has been forced to resign after an 18 year old student laid a sex complaint with police. Police are still investigating. This is yet another blow for the Labour Party as the November election approaches. There is a wordplay on '*!#* whip' and another word often used to describe an excessively stupid individual. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017552

Description: A man representing the Labour Party aims an arrow at a target labeled 'Nats' but he has the head of the arrow pointing at himself. In the background is another Labour Party man shot with two arrows and covering his face in despair. Context - Labour has been suffering a series of disasters like the mishandling of the Darren Hughes affair but Labour leader Phil Goff says he remains hopeful of "confounding expectations" after a poll showed 78 per cent of voters overall and 55 per cent of Labour Party voters did not believe he could win the election. (NZ Herald 19 April 2011) 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-0017461

Description: Leader of the Labour Party Phil Goff stands before an array of bottles and containers of various potions like 'Vitalise Polling Cream', 'Anti-aging Mid life crisis milk', 'Rogernome make up remover', 'Career Rejuvinate juice', 'Gaffe mouth-wash', and 'MP Remover - fast-acting'. He holds a bottle of 'Goldie Locks hair colour' and says 'Thanks Darren, you cost me another whole bottle!' Context - Phil Goff is doing badly in the polls and now Darren Hughes, who was a rising star has been forced to resign as Labour's chief whip after a sexual misconduct accusation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: New Zealand Press Association

Reference: DCDL-0018038

Description: The cartoon shows former MP, Darren Hughes, riding a unicycle that represents 'Labour', on a tightrope tied to a signpost that reads 'redemption', but the rope is fraying. Context - The decision by the Police not to charge former Labour MP Darren Hughes in relation to a sex complaint from a Victoria University student. Hughes resigned from the Labour Party after the accusation was made because of the media frenzy brought about by Phil Goff's attempt to keep the affair quiet (which he did for 3 weeks). Now that his name is saved Hughes is considering his future. The cartoon suggests that he may be redeemed but his future in Labour is compromised. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).