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"Nearly all my life folk have said 'I can pick you're a southerner from the way that yo...
Date: 2011
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0017063
Description: An elderly man struggles along with huge lead balls shackled to his ankles; the smaller one is labeled 'Chinese garden' and the larger 'stadium'. He says 'Nearly all my life folk have said "I can pick you're a southerner from the way that you speak". These days they say "I can see you're a Dunedinite from the way that you walk".' Context - Older southerners often roll their 'r's. In Dunedin the running of the Chinese Garden is estimated at over $500,000 a year and along with the new Forsyth Barr Stadium is a burden on Dunedin rate payers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Pushing it uphill. 5 January 2009
Date: 2010
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0013457
Description: The cartoon shows Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin sitting in a Dunedin City Council (DCC) car laden with a $360m debt and being pushed up a hill by a sweating '(I)rate payer'. Refers to the cost being born by Dunedin ratepayers of the new stadium. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Nisbet, Alistair, 1958- :"Rubbish collection... sewer... roads... squanderings... bail ...
Date: 2011
From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0017070
Description: A man sits at a table reading a C.C.C. (Christchurch City Council) report with the title 'Where your rates go!' He says 'Rubbish collection sewer roads squanderings bail outs' Context - After the Christchurch earthquake of 4 September 2010 rates have been of particular concern to residents which means people are sensitive to any possibility of squandering. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
NZ's UPHILL REPRESENTATIVE. SPENDING. 24 February 2010
Date: 2010
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0013772
Description: The cartoon shows a skier heading up a mountain track that has the word 'spending' printed on it. Text reads 'NZ's uphill representative'. The skier is Mayor Peter Chin of Dunedin who is being criticised because of the huge expense to ratepayers of the new stadium. There is also a reference to the Winter Olympics that are in progress in Vancouver. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"Hey guys! The Easter bunny's been!" 29 March 2010
Date: 2010
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0014008
Description: The cartoon shows an Easter bunny carrying a basket labelled 'Debts' that is full of Easter eggs. Children nearby gather eggs in delight. The bunny has the face and mayoral chain of Mayor Peter Chin. Refers to the large debt that Dunedin rate-payers have been landed with because of the building of the new stadium. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
The Chinese Garden. 3 February 2011
Date: 2011
From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0017113
Description: A crowd of people watch a Chinese dragon parading through the new Chinese Garden in Dunedin to mark the 'Year of the Rabbit'. Someone says 'This'll be good for the gardens - they just need to hold some more regularly-occurring celebrations' and someone else suggests 'Council employee of the month'. Context - the running of the Chinese Garden is estimated at over $500,000 a year and along with the new Forsyth Barr Stadium is a burden on Dunedin rate payers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
DCC STADIUM SPENDING. "Another recall... accelerator permanently stuck!" 5 February 2010
Date: 2010
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0013616
Description: Two mechanics stare at a car that represents 'DCC Stadium Spending' that is raised in the garage for servicing and one comments that there will have to be another recall as the accelerator is permanently stuck. Refers to the blow-out in Dunedin of spending on the new stadium, controversial because of the load put on ratepayers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"Thanks mate... we did do a fine job of capping the spill. But capping Council spending...
Date: 2010
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0014821
Description: A man is filling up his car at a BP petrol station. The BP employee serving him comments that BP did a fine job capping the oil spill but they didn't manage to cap council spending. Refers to the increased rates bills for Dunedin residents because of the new stadium. Refers also to attempts, as yet not wholly successful, by BP, to cap the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Tremain, Garrick, 1941-:"I think we could bomb in Dunedin" 28 March 2011
Date: 2011
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0017389
Description: A group of clowns sit around a table playing cards near the circus tents. One of them says that they could bomb in Dunedin because 'with their Council and Stadium Trust they've had their fill of clowns and circuses'. (By 'bomb' he means fail financially). Context - Problems over the costs to ratepayers of the new stadium and other council initiatives like the Japanese Garden. There is a second version of this cartoon at DCDL-0017388. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"Better get used to it son - you're gonna be stuck with it for a bloody long time!" 7 J...
Date: 2010
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0013458
Description: The cartoon shows a sweating ratepayer shovelling up dung being dropped by an elephant representing the 'DCC' (Dunedin City Council). He dumps it into a pram on top of a screaming baby who represents 'ratepayers to be'. Refers to the cost being born by Dunedin ratepayers of the new stadium. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"We used to do B&B till the rates hike killed it... now it's just a chair and cuppa." 5...
Date: 2010
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0014711
Description: A couple of tourists have arrived at what they thought was a B & B but discover that it is a 'C & C' called 'Sleepy Hollow'. The proprietor tells them that the rates hike killed their 'B & B' business so now they just do 'C & C' - a chair and a cuppa. Refers to the rates hike in Dunedin required to pay for the new Forsyth Barr Stadium. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Tremain, Garrick, 1941-:"We've cancelled our Dunedin itinerary" 28 March 2011
Date: 2011
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0017388
Description: A group of clowns sit around a table playing cards near the circus tents. One of them says that they have cancelled their Dunedin itinerary because 'with their Council and Stadium Trust they've had their fill of clowns and circuses'. Context - Problems over the costs to ratepayers of the new stadium and other council initiatives like the Japanese Garden. There is a second version of this cartoon at DCDL-0017389. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Smith, Hayden James, 1976- :[Costs of Dunedin's new stadium] 3 March 2011
Date: 2011
From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0017251
Description: Two men look at the almost completed Dunedin Stadium; one of them says 'features some REAL innovations, all right. Did you know it's inflatable?' His companion thinks he means 'the roofing' but he means 'the cost'. Context - Cartoon refers to the ever-expanding list of items not included in the "fixed price" contract for Dunedin's new Forsyth Barr Stadium being built for this year's Rugby World Cup. Some are quite necessary (and costly) for it to be usable for such events - examples include kitchen fit-outs, scoreboards and replay screens. "Possible additional" spending could be $4.35 million. The stadium's total cost was just shy of $200 million back in June 2009 ($261 million including interest on loans). (notes from the cartoonist) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Parsons, Alex, fl 2013: Tonyseta Marryatteolata. 2012
Date: 2013
From: Various artists :[Entries in the Young Cartoonist Award. 2013]
By: Parsons, Alex, active 2013
Reference: DCDL-0025729
Description: Shows Christchurch City Council CEO Tony Marryatt as a flying insect that 'preys on Christchurch ratepayers. Usually not detected at first, tends to leave a painful lump. Often found on golfcourses'. Refers to Marryatt's lack of popularity with Christchurch rate-payers, especially owing to wide media coverage of the pay rise he received in the wake of the Christchurch Earthquakes. The cartoonist also links his work with cartoonist Garrick Tremain's Birdwatcher's Guide, see A-298-150. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :[Rates base]. 1 May 2013
Date: 2013
From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons
By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)
Reference: DCDL-0024815
Description: A small house is shown on an enormous foundation block labelled 'Rate$'. The cartoonist's comment is 'Like for like for the house...Total dislike for the foundation!' In Christchurch there were prospects of large rises in householders' rate to help finance the Christchurch Rebuild project. In view of the damage to housing, rate increases may be badly disproportionate. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :Punchbag. 1 October 2014
Date: 2014
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0029563
Description: Shows the ratepayer as "The reliable old Punching bag' as a boxer representing DCC ineptitude, unwise investing, fraud, Stadium and Chinese garden. Refers to the Dunedin City Council ratepayer. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Tremain, Garrick 1941- :News - Cruise ship numbers growing... 19 February 2012
Date: 2012
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0020265
Description: Refers to news that a surge in the number of cruise ships heading to New Zealand is expected to inject an estimated $40 million a year into the Dunedin economy. The cartoon suggests that cruise ship passengers will visit the albatross colony at Taiaroa Head and the new stadium. The stadium has become 'an albatross round the necks' of Dunedin ratepayers which has been exacerbated by the probability of the folding of Otago Rugby Football Union. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Smith, Hayden James, 1976- :Deep within the stadium's complex structure...29 February 2012
Date: 2012
From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0020413
Description: A screw comes loose 'deep inside the Stadium's complex structure. Refers to the building of the controversial Forsyth Barr Stadium that it is hoped will bring huge benefits to the region but which is also costing ratepayers a lot of money. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Clark, Laurence, 1949- :'EXCUSE ME, MAYOR TILLER! there's someone from the government h...
Date: 2012
From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0020400
Description: The Kaipara District Council has accepted a proposal for the Australian company Earth Tech to design, build, finance and operate a Mangawhai sewerage scheme expected to cost $29.8 million. However ratepayers, who are expecting a large rate increase, claim the council has lost control of the management of the wastewater scheme and have asked police to investigate after it kept funds it had admitted it should not have gathered. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Tremain, Garrick 1941- :"I'm starting to wish William Webb Ellis had kept his hands in ...
Date: 2012
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0021471
Description: Refers to the man credited with being the inventor of rugby football. The Rugby World Cup is named the 'William Webb Ellis cup'. The cartoon is about the woes being experienced by Dunedin ratepayers obliged to pay high rates because of the building of the new stadium, the debt incurred by ORFU (Otago Rugby Football Union) and the IRB (International Rugby Board) rule change. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).