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Date: 2000

Reference: H-638-001/018

Description: Topics include developments along the Wellington waterfront, Prime Minster Helen Clark's attack on spend-thrift television managers, controversy over the national museum Te Papa's presentation of artworks, the Constitutional Conference 2000, the rebel coup in Fiji, activist Tame Iti's visit to Fiji during the rebel coup, the character of Jenny Shipley, the Leader of the Opposition, New Zealand's health record compared to that of France, New Zealand doctors and nurses emigrating while immigrant doctors are not employed in New Zealand, Associate Minister of Maori Affairs Tariana Turia's use of the word holocaust in a Maori context, the falling New Zealand dollar, the use of human DNA in pig embryos, American miltary responses to cut-backs in New Zealand defence spending, the non-pacific nature of the Pacific Ocean, the New Zealand-Australian agreement reached over social welfare and immigration policies, logging of native forests on the West Coast, the Treaty of Waitangi Tainui settlement advantaging the Hong KOng and Shanghai Bank. Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of black ink drawings.

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0016491

Description: Deputy Prime Minister Bill English and Co-leader of the Maori Party Pita Sharples try to push a huge wheel that represents 'Constitutional reform' up a steep hill; air is escaping from the tyre. In the foreground Prime Minister John Key bows before the queen. The cartoon suggests that PM John Key can continue to bow to the queen as though she is irrelevant to his 'brand of constitutional reform'. John Key promised a constitutional review in the Maori party's support deal; the review has stalled at high level by arguments over both the terms of reference (the Maori party wants wider ones than National) and who should be on the team. An example of John Key's brand of constitutional reform is Rodney Hide's drive for reform of the way laws are made. A second example is local government. The drivers are Hide as Local Government Minister, associate minister John Carter and Environment Minister Nick Smith. A third is co-governance and co-management in Treaty settlements, a radical shift brought about by Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson - this limits regional councils and adds to their costs in money and time - viz Waikato River. Until very recently the Department of Conservation administered and managed that land on behalf of the nation of New Zealanders as a statutory duty. In a widening range of places it is now to share management. Next is the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. (Notes from an article by Colin James -Key the constitutional reformer - Colin James's column for the Dominion Post and Press for 7 June 2010) Published in the Listener Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016357

Description: Pita Sharples Co-leader of the Maori Party holds a document entitled 'Constitutional Review' in his left hand and a glove puppet representing Finance Minister Bill English in his right. The puppet says '..and Pita will be my right hand man with this...' The review, announced today by Deputy Prime Minister Bill English and Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples, will also look at the role of the Treaty of Waitangi within constitutional arrangements and whether New Zealand needs a written constitution. The review is part of a confidence and supply agreement between National and the Maori Party. (NZ Herald 8 December 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).