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Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0029558

Description: Shows eight panels depicting the outcome of the elections for each of the political parties - National, Labour, NZ First, Greens, Internet Mana, Maori, United, ACT and Conservative. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0029710

Description: Shows a pencil with commentary by cartoonist "My pencil lead... well it's not actually lead, it's graphite, which is a type of carbon... so don't tell Russel Norman and his Greens, otherwise cartoons could become a very taxing activity. Thanks". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]

Reference: DCDL-0029838

Description: Cartoon shows Green Party MP Steffan Browning dancing naked, and throwing flowers into the air. Two police officers look one, and one tells the other to call for backup. Cartoon references an online petition that Browning signed, encouraging the World Health Organisation to 'test and distribute homeopathy as quickly as possible to contain the [Ebola] outbreaks'. Browning was widely critised and demoted from his natural health portfolio as a result. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025709

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip.The civil servant tells the politician his party has gone down in the polls but the Green Party has gone up. Later the press secretary asks the civil servant how the politician took the news and he says that he went green. Refers to a recent opinion poll where the Greens gained popularity at the expense of the National Party. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Nelson mail (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026497

Description: Metiria Turei, dressed as a nurse and representing the Green Party, confronts Skycity Casinos, in the form of an electronic gaming machine. Turei calls it a 'bandit' to which the machine retorts 'Nanny'. On 18 October 2013 the Green Party proposed to introduce mandatory measures to limit what gamblers can spend on electronic gaming machines from 2017. The Greens co-leader, Metiria Turei, said that this was in response to the SkyCity deal, part of which allows the casino operation more gaming machines in return for building an International Convention Centre. The terms '(one-armed) bandit' and 'nanny (state)' were terms of abuse used by those for and those against the proposal. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023494

Description: The politician asks about the Green Party's reaction to a report which says fracking is safe, and is told 'they say it's full of faults'. Context: The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's interim report on fracking concludes that fracking can be effectively managed if best practice is enforced through regulation. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the creation of fractures in a rock layer to release petroleum and natural gas. Fracking has serious environmental risks, including contamination of ground water and increased earthquake activity. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024340

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key being filmed standing in front of a green screen, so his image is projected onto a scene of the yellow brick road, with jobs hanging from trees. A computer in the foreground says, 'A Hollywood production.' Refers to the Prime Minister's recent trip to Hollywood, and the government's claims that 3000 New Zealanders secured jobs with Warner Brothers on the Hobbit movies after the Government changed the law defining what constitutes a contract worker. (New Zealand Herald, 1 Oct 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024708

Description: Three frames depict a man opening his letterbox while saying he thinks the Labour-Greens power policy is outdated. He reads his power bill and swears, then adds that it is a 'splendid idea'. Refers to joint announcement by Labour and Green parties to create single state buyer of electricity to curb price increases (27 April NZ Herald). 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: Dominion post (Newspaper); Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0024805

Description: The Mighty River Power shareholder is the Hydra, injured by a hammer and sickle attack, but whose multiple heads are still alive and angry. Mighty River Power shares reduced in value during April 2013 after the Labour, Green and New Zealand First parties proposed to buy back the shares once in government. The hammer and sickle suggests that these proposals were communistic. The mythical Hydra grew a new head each time one was cut off; thus the opposition could not kill the semi-privatisation of Mighty River Power. 'Hydra' also puns with Hydro-electric power, the product of that company. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Nelson mail (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024603

Description: Shows leader of the Labour Party, David Shearer, and leader of the Green Party, Russel Norman, dressed as superheros, flying through the air holding a wrench labelled, 'NZ Power'. In the background, Prime Minister John Key says, 'Labour and the Greens have come up woth a plan to share the Power and money out fairly and evenly to all New Zealanders!' Deputy Prime Minister Bill English responds, 'What a dirty, rotten, low-down trick! *@%*!' Refers to a joint proposal from the two parties to create a single buyer agency called NZ Power, which will purchase all electricity at a price based on the cost of production. Under the NZ Power setup, Labour estimates that power bills will fall by $230-$330 per annum for the average residential customer. (Scoop, 18 April 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0024984

Description: Depicts a man playing a pokie machine. Behind him is a mother and children pulling at his arm. A sexy tempting woman is sitting beside the pokie machine, and at the back of the machine is a businessman pocketing cash money and a builder building a convention centre. A 'Greens" Party man is trying to eat the pokie machine while a man wearing an 'L' badge representing the New Zealand Labour Party is standing on the foot of the Green Party man. Commentary from the artist: "My cartoon addresses the issues surrounding the deal struck between the John Key government and SkyCity casino in Auckland re funding a convention centre in exchange for the right to install a large number of gambling machines. Encouraging gambling is itself a kind of gamble. But then again the Convention Centre is a tempting payout." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0025075

Description: Shows two figures labelled, Labour and Greens, standing outside covered in snow. A gust of snowy wind labelled, National, blasts them with snow. Text reads, 'POLLar blast!' Refers to cold winter weather in the South Island of New Zealand, as well as recent poll which showed National gaining favour following the release of the 2013 budget. Previous poll results had showed the reverse. (National Business Review, 29 May 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025005

Description: Two cartoons labelled, 'The kiwi bid'. One has the words, 'oil exploration', with an arm labelled Greens putting the letter 'f' in front of it to spell, 'fol exploration'. A second cartoon says, 'It's the driller killer', with an arm labelled Greens pointing to the words. This cartoon may be referencing an earlier cartoon of Winter's from 1 May 2013 with the words, 'The driller thriller', reference number DCDL-0024735. The cartoons refer to the Green Party's efforts to block the National Party's plans to offer a total of 1,500 square kilometres and 190,000 square kilometres offshore territory for oil and gas exploration permits. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025173

Description: The Politician is being interviewed by the media about the leaking of documents and he says that people who leak information "deserve to be publicly crucified!" but then when asked by the reporter where his information came from, he replies "It was leaked to me". May refer to commentary questioning why the Labour and Green parties were "crucifying" United Future party leader Peter Dunne over the recent issue of a leaked government report. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025281

Description: An MP tells a colleague that he has abandoned an idea to print more money in order to ease financial troubles because the country can't afford the paper or ink. Context - The Green Party chose to abandon their call for quantative easing after it was heavily criticised by other the political parties. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Nelson mail (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020694

Description: Shows Green MPs Russel Norman and Metiria Turei tending a flourishing tree that bears an apple representing 17%. In the background are Prime Minister John Key staring at a vulture in his bare tree and leader of the Labour Party David Shearer watering his drooping tree. Context: The Greens on the rise in the polls. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0020225

Description: Shows Mojo Mathers, Green MP, who is profoundly deaf. Context: Refers to the election of Green MP Mojo Mathers who is profoundly deaf. Mathers revealed she was told she must pay up to $30,000 for electronic note-taking in Parliament out of her own budget. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0020512

Description: Labour deputy leader Grant Robertson tells leader David Shearer that there is evidence that the Greens are developing a deadly weapon in attracting Brian Edwards. Context: refers to Brian Edwards, well-known media personality and author who has written in his own blog 'I find myself wondering whether I want to be bothered with the Labour Party any more. Increasingly, it seems to me, the Greens reflect the philosophical and moral values to which I subscribe more accurately than the Labour Party whose philosophical and moral values are now so ill-defined as to be beyond definition'. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 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-0019486

Description: Text reads 'Eating up the opposition's support' and the cartoon shows a voracious creature that represents the 'Greens' and which shouts 'Feed me!' Context: The Greens appear to be taking votes from Labour - their poll results are rising as Labour's fall. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018752

Description: Labour leader, Phil Goff, sweats as he hacks and slashes at wild undergrowth in the bush that represents 'The Greens'. Someone says 'It's Goff v's wild... and the wild's winning!' Context: Voters appear to be deserting the Labour Party for the Greens as Phil Goff's election chances look increasingly hopeless. The Greens have leapt to 11 per cent in today's Fairfax Media-Research International Poll and their rise has come at the expense of Labour, which has slumped to 25.7 per cent. Title from file name Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).