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Date: 2013

From: Various artists :[Entries in the Young Cartoonist Award. 2013]

By: Drummond, Joshua, active 2013

Reference: DCDL-0025743

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key as a puppet on strings saying that 'Tony's just completing the smelter negotiations... Now, for the next act- the Mighty River Power Sale!'. In the background State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall is being jerked by strings pulled by Rio Tinto. The cartoonist has suggested that the government is not so much negotiating as being 'yanked around by Rio Tinto'. Refers to talks between state owned Meridian Energy and Rio Tinto, the owners of Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. Rio Tinto is one of the world's largest mining companies and is trying to negotiate a long-term subsidy to their power prices. Stuff has reported that: 'The smelter is New Zealand's largest electricity user, taking about 14 per cent of all electricity last year. A shutdown would flood the market with excess power and could potentially put a big dent in the profits of generators like Mighty River Power, which is about to float on the share market.' It is expected that Rio Tinto may sell the smelter, but if they close then power prices would fall flat, not encouraging the float of Mighty River Power. See Stuff, 10 April 2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Facebook (Firm); Scoop (Firm); Twitter Inc (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0025835

Description: A pot of gold, according to its label, worth $30 million, is poured into the aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point. Surrounding onlookers, 'Rio Dorado', 'Tiwai', 'Meridian' and another, make comments. The anonymous person asks 'What the flamin' hell is all that yellow stuff?' 'Tiwai' replies that it is 'liquid gold from the beehive smelter' and 'Meridian' comments 'Never smelt better'. Accompanying note from cartoonist states: '$30 mil is a gilt-edged sticking plaster over a festering smelter. Still, good work if you can get it.' In August 2013, after threats from Rio Tinto ('Rio Dorado' - 'Golden River'), the majority shareholder of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, of closure, the government gave a $30 million subsidy to support the smelter, guard against any unemployment and ensure that the smelter's power supplier, Meridian Energy, would still be able to offer a reasonable share price in the upcoming partial sale of its assets. This was widely regarded as blatant corporate welfare. Published on Martin Doyle's cartoon Facebook site (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Martin-Doyle/607865899238901?ref=hl) and Twitter (Twitter@Mart_cartoons) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0025875

Description: The Prime Minister, John Key, dressed as a fortune teller, peers into her crystal ball and tells her customer, the New Zealand tax payer, 'I see Rio Tinto staying at Tiwai Point for the long term - That'll be $30m ta...' In August 2013 the government paid the majority shareholder of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter a subsidy of $30 million in order that the smelter be kept open. Jobs and the share price for Meridian Energy, the Tiwai Point electricity supplier, may have been saved, but at a cost to the taxpayer. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025886

Description: Two men in lab-coats lean in a door frame at the Farewell Staff Party at the Invermay Canteen. The man on the left says "We'd have got some Government support if we'd given ourselves a catchier name" while the other replies "True!.. Something like 'Warner Brothers' or maybe 'Rio Tinto'." Refers to the announcement that staff numbers at AgResearch's Invermay facility will be reduced by 85. Also refers to the Government negotiating deals with Warner Brothers film studios to bring filming to New Zealand and with Rio Tinto over their ownership of the Rio Tinto aluminium smelter. 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-0025896

Description: Under the caption 'Point made...' the Minister of Finance, Bill English, waves a bag of money labelled '$30' at the smoke stack of the Tiwai Point smelter and says 'The bucks stop here'. In August 2013 Rio Tinto was granted a $30 million subsidy to keep the smelter open. Bill English's statement is a play on the old phrase 'The buck stops here'. 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-0026164

Description: Captioned 'Treasury's bottom line' is the calculation: '[Drawing of smelter smokestack] + $30 mill = 0 !' Refers to the $30 million subsidy paid out to Rio Tinto to keep the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter operating. The cartoon hints that the Government was anxious to settle with Rio Tinto over the smelter before it sold Meridian Ltd which supplies the smelter's electricity that it ignored Treasury's advice and made the subsidy tax free, thus producing no benefit for New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0024420

Description: Shows Pope Francis I, kneeling and kissing the foot of an inmate, juxtaposed with Prime Minister John Key kneeling to lick the bottom of a boot labelled, 'Rio Tinto'. Refers to the Pope's visit to a detention facility in Rome, where he washed and kissed the feet of 12 young inmates, and Key's negotiations with Rio Tinto, the owners of the Tiwai Point aluminum smelter. (NPR, 29 March 2013, and Stuff.co.nz, 2 April 2013) Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024442

Description: Shows a Rio Tinto executive sitting in a chair, drinking champagne. John Key looks cautiously into the room through a door which has been booby-trapped with a bucket of water labelled, 'Mighty River Power'. The Rio Tinto executive tells him to come in. Refers to negotiations between the government and British/Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, which owns just under 80% of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. The possible closing of Tiwai Point could impact power prices throughout the country, including at Mighty River Power, the first state-owned enterprise to have shares sold in the government's privatisation plan.(New Zealand Herald, 2 April 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0024445

Description: Two cartoons showing Minister for State Owned Enterprises, Tony Ryall commenting on the negotiations between the New Zealand Government and the Rio Tinto group, who own just under 80% of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. (New Zealand Herald, 2 April 2013) Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0024458

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key playing tennis with Rio Tinto, and although the ball is bouncing just behind him, he proudly announces that it's in their court. Refers to negotiations between the government and British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, which owns just under 80% of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024684

Description: Shows Rio Tinto Group, a British-Australian mining corporation, portrayed as fictional super-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld from the James Bond film series, who is often seen stroking his white cat. Rio Tinto stands with his foot on a dynamite trigger, which is hooked up to the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. He says "Give us the deal we want or you'll get... er... cheaper electricity. Damn- this super-villain act is harder than I thought!" Refers to negotiations between Rio Tinto and the New Zealand government, which has refused to offer more than a short-term subsidy to the mining giant in order to keep the aluminium smelter open. (New Zealand Herald, 2 April 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).