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Date: 1990 - 2002

Reference: A-366-133/179

Description: Cartoons on electoral issues, MMP, drugs, alcohol, smoking, computers, banks and cars relating to political and social issues in New Zealand and overseas. 146-149 a series on petrol prices. Quantity: 47 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen drawings on paper, sizes vary.

Date: 1999 - 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-606

Description: 88 cartoons on social and political issues. The topics include student loans and voting, East Timor violence, Jonah Lomu, NZ elections, politics and rugby, Doug Graham, national pride and rugby, children and television, Pakistan politics, the All Blacks, the Alliance at the elections, compulsory military service advocated by Winston Peters, National/Labour health policies, Max Bradford on university campus and peacekeeping, removal of tariffs, television and the world cup, Helen Clark apparently supporting a Green candidate, Winston Peters and coalition partners, election poll results, meat industry, rugby (France vs NZ), rugby world cup, Winston Peters as political dinosaur, list MPs, Winston Peters's supporters, gay issues in politics, NZ First and election policies, electoral advertising, Labour-Alliance coalition, NZ First sinking, excuses for poor performance in rugby and surgery, the Green party, economic growth and political performance, National's poll results, Russia and Chechen terrorism, similarity between party policies, women in politics, political corruption and immigration, Helen Clark's pre-election confidence, Winston Peters comeback, David Lange's alcoholism, drinking age lowered, Helen Clark and Jim Anderton, slow vote counting, the Mars lander, gender difference in education, Greens in parliament, Winston Peters small majority, minority government, beech logging, opposition media training, Labour defence review, Richard Prebble's loss in Wellington Central electorate, Helen Clark's political style, Titewhai Harawira and marae speaking rights, new cabinet ministers, Jim Anderton and TV sports, the Reserve Bank and the NZ economy, Helen Clark to avoid Waitangi, name suppression in American millionaire cannabis charges, Police Commissioner Doone out, Doone in PM's dept, Shipley on Doone, pension goes up, news readers' salaries, builings on Lambton Harbour, Marion Hobbs and TVNZ, destruction of Grozny, national socialism in Austria, Waitangi Marae in 2000, low wages for medical staff, treaty settlement payouts, Jim Anderton as political dinosaur, TV stars' salaries, the F16 aircraft deal, attacks on TVNZ/Paul Holmes, WINZ, Nandor Tanczos and alcohol in parliament, the Americas Cup, NZ cricket, smoking in Australian cricket team, new broadcasting boss, Helen Clark's popularity. Quantity: 88 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromides, various sizes.

Date: [ca 4 Nov 1970]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1970/4763-F

Description: Marijuana seedling, Porirua, part of a planting being investigated by Wellington drug squad detectives. Photographs taken circa 4 November 1970 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014890

Description: The cartoon shows a postcard sent from Gore covered with almost unintelligible text, obviously written by someone very high on dope. It mentions seeing a big fish called Brad Pitt. Text below reads 'One of several tourists' postcards mailed this week'. The words 'high price' are written across the stamp. It is addressed to 'The folks back home - you know who you are... and where you all live'. A second version mentions seeing Elvis. Refers to 'The smell of cannabis being burnt by police in the Gore station incinerator [that] is getting up the noses of some nearby businesses, although others admit they do not mind it.' (Southland Times). Brad Pitt was supposed to have dined with New Zealand film director Sir Peter Jackson at Indian restaurant Tulsi in Miramar. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0010914

Description: Shows a rail link being built that will provide access for Northlanders to the Auckland market; in the distance the Auckland Skytower shines like a beacon. In the foreground is a Northland train station on the verandah of which stand several men with the goods they want to send to Auckland. A Maori man covered in tattoos holds onto a large bulging sack and smokes a 'cigarette' telling the curious man beside him who is holding a can of oil (from the Marsden Refinery) that it is 'parsley'. ONTRACK and the Northland Regional Council are entering a joint venture arrangement to advance the land designation process and share the costs of land acquisition so that a 16 km line to Marsden Point from a junction with the North Auckland Line 25 km south of Whangarei in Oakleigh could be built that would cost NZ$86.5 million. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0020023

Description: Cartoon shows a group, wearing black singlets and shorts, apparently a sports team, all smoking marijuana. A banner reads 'The All Weeds'. One member of the group is asking 'What sport do we play anyway?' Another replies 'Dunno...I forgot maan!'. Refers to an overseas news item that drug use, particularly of marijuana, was more widespread in Australia and New Zealand than in the rest of the world. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022140

Description: A cheerful Maori Rastifarian arrives at a museum confident of finding 'heads'. Context: Confusion over the term 'pot-heads'. Twenty tattooed Maori heads have been repatriated from France to New Zealand after more than 200 years. The United Nations 2012 Drug Report says New Zealanders are among the highest users of illegal drugs in the world, and top the list for cannabis use. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022729

Description: Shows a young man smoking dope and wondering whether his intelligence will be effected. Context: In a study of more than 1,000 adolescents in New Zealand, those who began habitually smoking marijuana before age 18 showed an eight-point drop in IQ between the ages of 13 and 38, a considerable decline. The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, charted the IQ changes in participants over two decades. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019111

Description: The cartoon is divided into three frames; the title of the first frame is 'Fanzone "the All Blacks",'that of the second is 'Fanzone "the Warriors",' and that of the third is 'Fanzone "the ACT Party".' The cartoons show crowds at each fanzone. Those in the All Blacks and Warriors fanzones shout 'Great scrum! Great line-out' etc but the crowd at the ACT party fanzone are half-hidden in a cloud of marijuana smoke. Context: In a move that astonished everyone ACT Party leader Don Brash has announced that he wants the personal use of marijuana decriminalised. It is considered to be an expression of ACT's desperation as its polling continues to be bad and the November elections loom. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019013

Description: ACT leader Don Brash smokes marijuana and in a cloud of smoke says 'Dudes, dudes, dudes... Man this is some heavy skunk, man. No way should this be against the law.' He then realises that he is alone and declares this situation 'uncool'. A security guard tells him that 'The entire ACT caucus is retiring, Dr Brash. Most of them have already left the building.' Context: In a move that astonished everyone Don Brash has announced that he wants the personal use of marijuana decriminalised. It is considered to be an expression of ACT's desperation as its polling continues to be bad and the November elections loom. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019133

Description: ACT leader Don Brash sits with his feet on his desk, on which stands a healthy marijuana plant, and smokes dope. He says 'If you guys think I'm out of it now - wait until I start inhaling.' His deputy John Boscawen leaves the room saying 'I'm off, this party's going to pot.' Context: Act leader Don Brash admits it may look like the party is falling apart but says that's not the reality. Act Party MP John Boscawen that he will retire from Parliament at the election, citing family reasons. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019045

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Th minister's aide says to the minister that he sees that he (the minister) has suggested that marijuana be decriminalised and that people be given more rights to defend themselves'. He continues 'Judging by people's reactions to your first suggestion, you're going to need to use your second one. Context: these two policy proposals are constantly on the boil. The aide thinks that the minister will need the right to self-defence when he is attacked by people opposing the decriminalisation of marijuana. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019118

Description: ACT leader Don Brash emerges from a marijuana plot wearing hippie beads and headband and smoking a reefer. Someone says 'Poor Don He always has HIGH expectations' and someone else says 'Until he makes a hash of it,' (wordplays on 'high' and 'hash') Context: In a move that astonished everyone Don Brash has announced that he wants the personal use of marijuana decriminalised. It is considered to be an expression of ACT's desperation as its polling continues to be bad and the November elections loom. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0019061

Description: The cartoon shows ACT leader Don Brash smoking a marijuana joint labelled 'competence'. On his shirt are the words 'Brash act'. Context: Don Brash, leader of ACT, has announced that he supports the decriminalisation of marijuana thus jeopardising his parties ability to remain a coalition partner for the National party. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Fairfax Media Limited (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0019004

Description: The cartoon shows ACT leader Don Brash wearing a Rastafarian beanie, riding on a skateboard and smoking a marijuana cigarette from which comes puffs of smoke that form the word 'Desperation.' He shouts 'Like now man!' Context: In a move that astonished everyone Don Brash has announced that he wants the personal use of marijuana decriminalised. It is considered to be an expression of ACT's desperation as its polling continues to be bad and the November elections loom. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0020024

Description: Cartoon shows a New Zealander in a black singlet, holding a marijuana cigarette in the shape of New Zealand, singing the words to the first verse of a 'new National Anthem?'. Begins 'Marijuana at thy feet' and ends with 'God defend our weedy land!'. Refers to an overseas news item published in January 2012, which reports that marijuana use in Australia and New Zealand is one of the highest in the world. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Fairfax Media Limited (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0019773

Description: A farmer arrives at the front desk in the police station clutching a hairy young man round the neck. A notice on the wall reads, 'Farmers urged to report cannabis crops'. The farmer says 'We found this dope growing in our maize'. Context: In the first outcome from the recent Police-Federated Farmers Letter of Agreement, Federated Farmers is asking its members to actively assist the Police in combating the cultivation of cannabis. (Scoop 12 December 2011) Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018494

Description: The cartoon shows the leader of United Future, Peter Dunne, standing resolutely on a road beside a sign saying 'Road closed'. The cartoonist named the cartoon 'Peter Dunne, anti-drug campaigner'. Context: Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has admitted smoking pot just one day after pushing through a bill to ban copycat drugs. Parliament yesterday passed the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill, promoted by the United Future leader, that will make synthetic cannabis products illegal. He smoked cannabis a couple of times in the 1970s. He is Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has admitted smoking pot just one day after pushing through a bill to ban copycat drugs. Colour and black and white versions available Title from file name 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-0018544

Description: Text reads 'Poter [Peter] Dunne.Grassociate Minister of Health'. Below is the leader of United Future, Peter Dunne, who has a small bird on his head and a lit cigarette in his hand. He says 'Yes I've had a personal experience with the dope thing'. Context: Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has admitted smoking pot just one day after pushing through a bill to ban copycat drugs. Parliament yesterday passed the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill, promoted by the United Future leader, that will make synthetic cannabis products illegal. He smoked cannabis a couple of times in the 1970s. He is Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has admitted smoking pot just one day after pushing through a bill to ban copycat drugs. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017971

Description: Shows a naked, but for a marijuana leaf, Minister of Finance, Bill English, sitting in a deckchair in a sinking ship called 'HMS New Zealand' looking very relaxed and smoking marijuana. Context - The cartoonist writes that this is a 'caricature of Bill English saying the country was on it's way to economic recovery oh yeah'. The cartoon was drawn to accompany Nick Smith's article 'Pipe dreams not just for potheads' published in NZHerald Business Friday 3 June 2011. Nick Smith writes 'Bill English describe New Zealand's prison system as a fiscal and moral failure'. He continues 'Pot growers should not be in prison, despite their repeated misdemeanours. It's such an egregious example of English's fiscal and moral failure that the Finance Minister really should get on board Norml's bandwagon'. And continues 'English wasn't stoned; at last there appear to be genuine signs of economic recovery... No, the only stoner element in English's environment is his Alice-in-Wonderland dilemma: should he eat the cake labelled "government spending" and grow the economy, or drink the bitter bottle labelled "medicine" and shrink it?' (NZHerald 3 June 2011) Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).