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Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021291

Description: Context: Leader of the ACT Party, John Banks, lied about so-called anonymous donations made to his Auckland mayoralty campaign. In fact they had come from Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0024302

Description: Commentary from the cartoonist 'There's a strange irony in the way our secret agents and spies have themselves attracted a lot of probing and sniffing by parliament and public. In particular, the current examination of their activities in regards Kim Dotcom'. Following the debacle over the Government Communications Security Bureau's actions in the Kit Dotcom affair, the Bureau came under much unwelcome scrutiny from the media and public. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021366

Description: Context: John Banks has been in big trouble over the Dotcom affair in which he failed to disclose that he knew Dotcom donated funds for his Auckland mayoral campaign and then lied and 'failed to remember' various other embarrassing incidents. John Key has yet to sack him. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021585

Description: Shows John Key attempting to silence Hekia Parata who is holding papers about class size. Behind Key is John Banks who has been put under a blanket. Banks is accompanied by a headless man with a suitcase of money and his friend Mr Crimp. Context: Parata has been criticised for National government plans to increase class sizes and fire teachers. Key intervened and claimed that no school would lose more than two teachers. (NZ Herald website 30 May 2012). Key has refused to sack ACT MP John Banks despite allegations that Banks knew his anonymous donor Kim Dotcom (NZ Herald website 7 May 2012) and accepted donations from anti Maori Invercargill businessman Louis Crimp (NZ herald website 21 May 2012). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0020473

Description: People queue with money to buy their way into New Zealand. Context: a reference to Kim Dotcom's being able, in spite of past convictions, to secure New Zealand citizenship because of his huge wealth. Kim Dotcom has been accused of internet piracy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021198

Description: Shows ACT leader John Banks being conveyed in a charabank in Hong Kong. Context: The references to memory relate to John Banks inability to recall having received hospitality from millionaire Kim Dotcom with a discounted deal at Kim Dotcom's favourite Hong Kong hotel during his stay there last year. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021118

Description: A headless figure of a man carrying two bags. Context: ACT Party leader John Banks received a donation from internet millionaire Kim Dotcom during his campaign for the Auckland supercity mayoralty in 2010 but declared it as anonymous in his campaign returns. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021119

Description: Context: ACT Party leader John Banks received a donation from internet millionaire Kim Dotcom during his campaign for the Auckland supercity mayoralty in 2010 but declared it as anonymous in his campaign returns. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0022852

Description: Shows a blindfolded ass with a sword in one hand and two bags of money in the other. ACT leader John Banks crawls on his belly to help the blind ass by picking up money that is spilling from the bags. Context: quoted comments of Associate Minister of Education John Banks as quoted by Kim Dotcom to the NZ Police. John Banks tried to justify his actions by persuading Kim Dotcom that he could help him more if the donations were anonymous. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0023587

Description: Cartoon showing Kim Dotcom looming over police, saying, "Sorry to bust in on your drinks, boys" Context: Details of the top secret international spy agency ring known as Echelon will have to be produced after a new judgment in the Kim Dotcom case. (New Zealand Herald, 6 Dec 2012) Note from the artist: "Our spy agencies, which specialise in uncovering dim dark secrets, have discovered they're not totally beyond the law themselves. The court ruling must feel like an invasion of privacy for them." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0020084

Description: Refers to the arrest of Kim Dotcom, a German millionaire and founder of file-sharing site Megaupload, who was arrested on behalf of United States authorities, including the FBI, in a police raid at his $30m Coatesville mansion in Auckland. US authorities are now seeking his extradition. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).