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Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023875

Description: The politician is told not to worry about the beneficiary numbers. 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-0024550

Description: Shows two knives beside a filleted fish which is just head, bones, and tail. One knife is labelled, IRD, and the other knife is labelled, Ministry of Social Development. Refers to a collaboration between the Ministry of Social Development and the Inland Revenue Department, which saw the cancellation of over 500 people's benefits due to welfare fraud. (Stuff.co.nz, 14 April 2013) Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024524

Description: The Politician is told that the people taken off the benefit have taken to the streets, not to protest, but to live. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0025638

Description: Shows a public notice sign declaring that the New Zealand government had 'gone benefishin''. Compares the benefisheries to the hunting and gaming season. Refers to the benefit changes that came into effect in mid July. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020323

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Refers to the determination of Minister of Social Welfare Paula Bennett to get people off benefits and into work. There is criticism about insufficent numbers of jobs and a lack of emphasis on job creation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Nelson mail (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021275

Description: Shows Paula Bennett, Minister of Social Development, introducing Doctor Josef Mengele as her new consultant. Context: Bennett announced that free long term reversible contraception will be offered to female beneficiaries and their 16 to 19-year-old daughters. Mengele was a German SS officer and physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp who used inmates for human experimentation, including sterilization. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0020434

Description: A rugby player holds a hideous baby that represents the 'Otago and Provincial Rugby debt'. A woman with a baby and a small child tells him that she has been told to get a 'real' job. Context: The Otago Rugby Football Union faced liquidation in February 2012, and the Dunedin City Council was expected to foregive repayment of a debt of $400,000 to help rescue the rugby union. A second element in the cartoon refers to the determination of Minister of Social Welfare Paula Bennett to get people off benefits and into work. There is criticism about insufficient numbers of jobs and a lack of emphasis on job creation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Fairfax Media Limited (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0020377

Description: Shows Minister for Social Development Paula Bennett becoming irritated because a man representing New Zealand fails to see the letters 'J-O-B-S' that she is convinced are spelled out on the optometrist's eye-test screen. Context: High level of unemployment in New Zealand and Paula Bennett's determination to get people off welfare and into jobs. Colour and black and white versions are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022671

Description: There are two versions of this cartoon. Shows a woman's arm, labelled PB on the sleeve, throwing a ball labelled `welfear' [sic] costs. An announcer states, `This is surely blatant scareoid [sic] use!! The minister doubles her previous best shot way out beyond the poverty line.' Context: Paula Bennett, Minister for Social Welfare, announced that unemployment beneficiaries who fail drug tests twice or don't apply for drug-tested jobs will have their benefits cancelled beginning in April 2013. A Health Ministry document indicates the proposal to cut benefits for job seekers who fail drug tests could cost up to $14 million a year, rather than the $6 million the Government claims it will save. (3News, 28 Aug 2012). Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Salient (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021362

Description: Shows Minister for Social Development Paula Bennett interupting two people in a passionate embrace. Context: Paula Bennett's suggesting long-ternm contraception for women on the benefit, a controversial idea that is not quite at the stage of being made compulsory. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021293

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Paula Bennett Minister for Social Development says that the welfare package reforms announced in the run-up to the 2011 election would cost at least NZ$520 million, and save NZ$1 billion over four years. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0020437

Description: Minister of Social Development and Employment Paula Bennett brags to a reporter about lifting herself off welfare and into politics and he responds by suggesting that she is 'still' on state assistance. Context: Paula Bennett was once a solo mother on a benefit and she often uses her own experience to suggest that being on a benefit should not limit a person's ambition. It is however true that life on a benefit is tougher now in 2012 than it was when she was a young woman. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020279

Description: Shows a mother sole saying farewell to her two children as she leave for work. Context: Refers to welfare reforms, orchestrated by by Paula Bennett, Minister for Social Development and Employment, one of which forces DPB recipients to seek part and full-time work. John Key is also being criticised for saying there are plenty of jobs available. Keith Ng looks at the figures in his blogpost 195,508 people can't be that lazy and concludes If John Key has found all the jobs, 195,508 people would like to know. (NBR March 1 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0020431

Description: Prime Minister John Key, alias Kermit the Frog, from the Children's television show 'The Muppets' sings along with Miss Piggy (Paula Bennett) a song with the words 'From the benefit straight to a job!' Context: The Muppets scooped the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 2012 84th Academy Awards, for 'Man or Muppet', music and lyrics composed by (New Zealander) Bret McKenzie. Refers to the determination of Minister of Social Welfare Paula Bennett to get people off benefits and into work. There is criticism about insufficient numbers of jobs and a lack of emphasis on job creation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0021452

Description: Shows Colin Craig, leader of the NZ Conservative Party, with a version of a 'scold's bridal' over his head. Context: Colin Craig made the statement that Kiwi women were the most promiscuous in the world and the taxpayer should not pay for their contraception. Mr Craig made the comment on Radio NZ yesterday while discussing Paula Bennett's controversial $1 million initiative to provide grants for women on the benefit to get long-acting contraception. NZ Herald May 10 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0019468

Description: In the background the container ship 'Rena' has run aground on a reef and in the foreground, floating on a liferaft representing 'Welfare to work', which is full of holes, sits Minister for Social Development, Paula Bennett, who says 'The Rena could have been floated if they'd only pumped it full of hot air..' Context: On the 5th October the container ship 'Rena' broke up on the Astrolabe reef off the coast of Tauranga. Paula Bennett's ambition to get people off welfare and into work seems like 'hot air' as in these times of economic downturn there are not enough jobs. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019402

Description: Prime Minister John Key and the Minister of Social Development Paula Bennett are exploding beneficiaries from a 'Big Bang Beneficiary Boom Box'. Context: Welfare changes have been announced that are targeting young people on benefits with the idea of getting them into work or training. But the government policy will do little to help disengaged young people unless accompanied by meaningful job creation policies and increased training opportunities. (Green Party press release in Scoop 14 August 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020049

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The Politician tells his aide 'It turns out we've been paying millions of dollars in benefits to dead people!'. The aide replies 'So you CAN take it with you!'. In January 2011 Social Development Ministry figures had shown that more than two million dollars had been paid out in benefits to deceased people. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018658

Description: A young woman stands with her trolley at the check-out counter in a supermarket. The checkout woman holds a card and says 'Sorry love, Ms Bennett's card won't cover the fags or the 6-pack And to be on the safe side I'd put the wine biscuits and brandy snaps back as well'. Context: The government plans to introduce a welfare payment card as part of its benefit reforms. Social Development Minister Paula Bennett is refusing to rule out extending the Government's newly proposed welfare payment card to adult beneficiaries. The payment cards to about 2600 young beneficiaries are intended to ensure their benefits are spent on essentials. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018644

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. When the minister hears that the unemployment figures are up he says 'Don't worry. That in itself will create more jobs. We'll need to hire more spin doctors'. Context: The government's welfare benefit reforms, that are targeting young people, depend on there being jobs for them, in order to be successful. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).