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Date: 2011

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017763

Description: Above the cartoon are the words 'Gang relocating to new premises'. A family has stopped to look at an interesting building called the 'Hundertwasser Art Centre' but the small boy asks 'Can we go and play on the BOUNCY CASTLE?!' Context - The Whangarei District Council has agreed to get the public's opinion on the Hundertwasser Art Centre proposed for the former Northland Harbour Board building at the Town Basin. The late Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser first sketched a concept for the building in 1993, including a ramp leading to a roof-top garden and rounded corners. The potential economic impact for Whangarei is estimated at $3.7 million a year. The Rebels Motorcycle Club is relocating from a building in Porowini Ave, a commercial area in Whangarei because of public pressure on the building's owner. The cartoon suggests that the Rebels Club could use the Hundertwasser building for their premises. (Northern Advocate, 26 April and 4 May 2011). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017650

Description: Several parents watch a game of football being played by two teams of small boys. All the members of one of the teams are lying on the ground screaming while one of the boys from the opposing team protests 'All I did was toss them the ball to kick off. There is a newspaper nearby with a headline that reads 'World Cup providing great inspiration for young players'. The boy has forgotten that he is playing football, not rugby. Published in Whangarei Report 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: 2009

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

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017620

Description: A man and a woman sit in bed having a furious row about whether the baby should be given a rugby ball or a soccer ball for Christmas. The sensible older sister says she has bought him a teddy bear. On the wall above the bed are posters for the All Blacks and the All Whites. Context - the popularity of both rugby and soccer tends to have ups and downs in New Zealand. It is likely that it will be the man who wants his son to play rugby since rugby is definitely the choice of the good Kiwi bloke. Published in Whangarei Report Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017745

Description: Two happy duck hunters return home with a successful booty. One of them reckons that 'Mum'll be chuffed!! When she cooks this lot up for a mothers' Day dinner, it'll be the best gift I've ever given her!' The mother can be seen vacuuming through the open doorway. Context - The duckshooting season started on 1st May, the weekend before Mother's Day. Mother will be cooking the ducks for her own celebratory dinner. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017621

Description: A very cheerful man is cooking huge amounts of meat and sausages on a barbecue in his back garden. The neighbour holds up a newspaper with a heading reading 'ETS laws' and 'fires' with a cross and 'trees' with a tick. He says 'I've counteracted the carbon pollution by planting 50 marijuana plants behind the shed. Context - Attempts to counteract the effects of global warming by offsetting carbon emissions with tree planting. Published in Whangarei Report Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017743

Description: The scene is a very typical house in a suburban street. In the hedge is a newspaper with a headline reading 'Emails, Twitters etc causing demise of Postal Service - Daily mail services may be cut'. A woman can be seen through the window at her computer. A dog sits crossly beside the letter box and thinks 'Rats! What the heck fun can you get chasing an email supplier?!' Context - Up to 20 New Zealand Post shops and Kiwibank outlets are set to close, meaning dozens of staff are going to lose their jobs. NZ Post says it's losing $40 million on its 304 shops, which is a cost CEO Brian Roche says is unsustainable and continuing to rise. The main reason is the use of email and online social networking that mean fewer letters are being written. (TV3 15 April 201 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020691

Description: Shows a most glorious sewage treatment centre in the style of Hundertwasser. Context: Refers to the newly completed, $5 million Hatea Storage Tank and Treatment facility that the Whangarei District Council says will dramatically reduce the number of wet weather, untreated sewage spills into Whangarei Harbour. There is proposal to build an art centre in Whangarei designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017765

Description: The scene is a rural community in the eraly morning. A man swears as he walks his bike up a steep hill. His wife and child wave farewell and the child asks 'Why did Daddy say that word that you told me not to say?' Floating at the top of the cartoon are two newspapers reading 'More petrol price increases coming' and 'Save on household costs - Go to work on a bike'. Context - The cost of living and the high prices for petrol and food in the current economic climate. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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: 2009

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

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017616

Description: A man slumps in his armchair and reads an article entitled 'All Blacks. Henry to sort out lineout problems'. His wife complains about his untidiness and says 'You're a fine one to criticize the All Blacks lineout skills, when you can't even reach up to hang up your coat!.. Published in Whangarei Report Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017614

Description: A man who has just done the collection in a church service counts the takings and says 'You can tell the recession's over - Four buttons and two washers more than last week'. Refers to the news that the recession is officially over with latest figures showing the economy expanded 0.1% in the June quarter, ending 15 months of economic decline. Published in Whangarei Report Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017622

Description: Santa and Mrs Claus are splashing through their flooded garden, loading presents into the sleigh. Santa Claus says crossly 'They'll sure start believing in global warming when they strat opening this years lot of soggy presents'. Context - The problem of global warming. Published in Whangarei Report Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017886

Description: A New Zealand Post employee smiles as he weighs a parcel and says to the old woman at the counter 'Don't worry. None of our Whangarei branches will be closing. But soon you'll be weighing, putting the stamps on and posting your mail all by yourself'. The old lady says 'Oh dear! Will you be providing a bicycle?' Context - Up to 20 New Zealand Post shops and Kiwibank outlets are set to close, meaning dozens of staff are going to lose their jobs. NZ Post says it's losing $40 million on its 304 shops, which is a cost CEO Brian Roche says is unsustainable and continuing to rise. (TV3 15 April 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017612

Description: A class of children stand on strike with their arms folded. The teacher says 'They've gone on strike until we recount all the "fail" marks they've had for spelling - when WE'VE been misspelling place names for years'. On the blackboard is the text 'Wanganui should be Whanganui'. Context - the row about putting the 'h' into the name 'Wanganui'. Published in Whangarei Report Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018060

Description: In six frames various people express their opinions about how the Whangarei City Council should spend its money. The first woman thinks the 'Hundertwasser Art Centre will put Whangarei on the map' but a man thinks they should 'clean up the harbour first. A man wonders whether an international tourist attraction or a clean harbour would be best; another woman wonders why they can't have both; an elderly woman says she thought the council already had the sewage spills under control and the last person grumpily worries that they won't get either. Context - the Whangarei District Council has a multi-million-dollar upgrade of its wastewater system under way. A model of the proposed Hundertwasser Art Centre has also been displayed to the public. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023096

Description: In six frames a woman talks to her husband about the Kim Dotcom spying saga and discovers that he has never heard of Kim Dotcom. She realises that it is contagious. Context: Relates to the Kim Dotcom spying scandal when it transpired that the GCSB was spying on Dotcom who has New Zealand residency. The United States wants to extradite him on copyright infringement charges. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017615

Description: The scene is the A & P Society's cookery competitions. A woman reads a newspaper with a heading that reads 'Crack-down on food not made in licensed kitchens'. A health inspector has condemned as unsafe the jam and pickles of all the contestants and one of the has jammed a bucket over his head. Another contestant tells her neighbour that 'the danger-to-your-health in Aunt Mildred's jam, isn't in the eating of it - but the telling her'. Published in Whangarei Report Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017764

Description: A fortune teller tells PM John Key that she can 'see the end of a GREAT honeymoon... and the beginning of a difficult marriage'. Context - The budget looms at the end of this week and the New Zealand economy is struggling. Prime Minister John Key's assurances that he is confident about the path his government is taking, begin to sound hollow. The honeymoon may be ending as New Zealand heads towards the November elections. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017574

Description: A sad-looking man holds a notice that reads 'Will make ANZAC Day poppies for food'; beside him is a collecting bowl. Context - the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association said yesterday that Australian company Cash's had won the tender to make the poppies from 2012. The parts for 1.2 million poppies a year will be made in China and then assembled by workers across the ditch. The move has outraged Christchurch RSA, which has held the contract since 1931, first employing war veterans and later people with disabilities. (Stuff 10 December 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).