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Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014372

Description: Shows the blue Southern Cross section of New Zealand flag departing from the Union Jack portion. The Union Jack tells the Southern Cross (New Zealand) that they don't want to be seen with their mum (Great Britain) anymore. Refers to New Zealand breaking away from the British Monarchy and becoming a republic. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016336

Description: The cartoon is entitled 'Old Mr Hubbard -' and depicts financier Alan Hubbard with his dog looking into a cupboard that is (nearly) bare. In fact what is in the cupboard is an image of an 'Emergency taxpayer' with an instruction to 'Break glass' and 'shake well'. Context; financier Allan Hubbard and his wife were personally placed in statutory management on June 20 this year, and South Canterbury Finance was placed in receivership. Hubbard is the majority shareholder in the company. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

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

Reference: DCDL-0013013

Description: Shows Auckland City politicians Bruce Hucker and Dick Hubbard shaking hands. Hucker addresses Hubbard as "Mother Hubbard" and Hubbard address Hucker as "Mother Hucker". Suggests the friendship is forced. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014366

Description: Shows a cargo ship called 'Supercity planning' with a load of containers arriving at a port. The containers are labelled non-smoking yet have smoke pouring from them. The cartoon is entitled 'Gunpowder plot' and an official on the wharf tells a passer-by that the laod is 'For controlled demolition of obsolete structures'. Refers to Auckland Supercity planning. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0013208

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key as a Maori Chief signing the Post-Election Treaty with Maori Party leaders Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples (resembling Captain Hobson) at Waitangi. Helen Clark is another Maori Chief who has not been invited to sign the treaty and she sits happily looking on in the background. Refers to the Treaty of Waitangi and the agreement between National Party and Maori Party following the general election. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0013268

Description: Shows three images of 'Great Kiwi Oxymorons Part I' events that have occured during the week. First image is of the drinking culture in which a drunk driver has hit a tree and is brandishing a broken bottle, looking for a fight. The second is of Anti-Israel protests against Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer at the Auckland Classic Tennis competition. The third is of two sharks. One looks frightened as the other says that it is a media beat-up and that his chances of being attacked by a Great White curator are really very low. Refers to the capture of a great white shark for captivity. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016334

Description: Cartoon is in three parts. In the first, ACT Party leader Rodney Hide putting a cat with the face of Heather Roy into a rubbish bin (refers to Rodney Hide's replacement of hid deputy Heather Roy with John Boscawen). In the second cartoon, Minister of Justice Simon Power is shown holding aloft a glass engraved with the words 'Drink Law Reform' and wishing he could make 'alcopops this insipid'. In the third, two rats representing 'Hanover' and 'Bridgecorp' finance companies are shown staring at a smug 'South Canterbury' bunny and wondering 'what's he got that we didn't have' (refers to Canterbury Finance investors being compensated by the government). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016330

Description: A drunken advertising tycoon drives a car that represents the 'drinking culture' and is relieved to have been 'Let off with a warning again' - he can't believe his luck. Context; the announcement on 23 August of new liquor laws aimed at the binge culture of young New Zealanders. Critics say that the changes fall far short of addressing the problem. The main feature recommended by the Law Commission's Report on the Liquor laws was raising prices which Simon Power has decided not to implement. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2 December 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016378

Description: Prime Minister John Key checks through a pile of Wikileaks documents and is highly offended that New Zealand is not mentioned anywhere. Context: WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its director. John Key is disappointed that New Zealand is sufficiently unimportant to have not been mentioned in the leaked documents. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024662

Description: 'Lennie the Lame Engine' (Mayor of Auckland, Len Brown) finds that the (Auckland City) rail loop is blocked by 'The Fat Controller' (Minister of Transport, Gerry Brownlee). The efforts of the Auckland City Council to establish a full urban rail transport system, a project especially promoted by the Mayor, was blocked by the reluctance of the Ministry of Transport to commit to it. The cartoon refers to the characters in a popular series of children's books 'Thomas the Tank Engine', which features a 'Fat Controller' resembling the Minister of Transport. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

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

Reference: DCDL-0013004

Description: Shows a couple sitting on fold out chairs on a Coromandel beach in front of a very modest bach. The man is reading in the newspaper that gold mining may start again in the Coromandel. He believes that they can't allow it to happen as it would ruin the ambience of the area. In the background are large ostentatious holiday homes sitting directly on the beachfront. Refers to Coromandel residents protesting against further gold mining in the area despite district planning allowing the development of the beachfronts. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

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

Reference: DCDL-0013008

Description: Shows Dick Hubbard, the Mayor of Auckland City, being interviewed by a journalist from the National Business Review (NBR). The journalist asks Hubbard about what he is praying for now. It turns out that Hubbard is thinking about the journalist being in Hell. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

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

Reference: DCDL-0013164

Description: Shows Auckland City Mayor Dick Hubbard as the meat in a hamburger sandwich in which the bottom part represents criticism and the top part represents Sister-city. Hubbard says "Ich bin ein hamburger!". Refers to Hubbard's statements concerning the economic benefits to Auckland from a sister city relationship with Hamburg and discovered that a formal economic analysis had not been conducted. Subsequently, it was discovered that Hubbard's claim of $500 million worth of economic benefit from a Hamburg sister city relationship was based on a "vibe" or his own personal estimates. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0013245

Description: Shows a Viking warrior in front of a burning Auckland War Memorial Museum. The warrior is holding a shield with the words "Director Vitali" and on the ground there skulls and bones. Vitali says "Sacking? I prefer to call it restructing". One of the skulls in the foreground says "More like TePapa-fication". Refers to the controversial restructing of Auckland Museum by new director Dr Vanda Vitali. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016379

Description: PM John Key throws dollar notes to two pigs who dance with glee; one of them represents 'Foreign film makers' and the other 'finance companies'. John Key says 'Look how much happier they are when they're well fed and free from constraints'. Context; the foreign film makers are Warner Brothers; the government has agreed to amend the country's labour laws and has offered a $25m tax break to the Hollywood studio Warner Brothers in order to get agreement to allow Peter Jackson to make the two 'Hobbit' films in New Zealand. The finance company was 'South Canterbury Finance' and the cartoon refers to the government's bail-out of the South Canterbury Finance Company so that investors would not lose money, after the company went into receivership. SCF was taken into receivership but its investors were guaranteed by the government and so all 30,000 fortunate high-risk investors will be paid out $1.6b thanks to the taxpayer. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0013209

Description: Shows Auckland City Council planners looking over urban transportation plans for a possible second harbour crossing, Mt Albert tunnel and rail. One of them asks if they could only have a expandable transport system that never got congested. In the background through the large paned windows shows the expansive Waitemata Harbour with only one ferry and yacht on it. Refers to the urban transportation problems in Auckland. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

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

Reference: DCDL-0013045

Description: Shows Auckland City Deputy Mayor Bruce Hucker and Mayor Dick Hubbard lying in a bed together. Hubbard tells Hucker that he would prefer a divorce but that he would settle for a large apartment. Refers to the sour relationship between the two men. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016370

Description: An old Hobbit representing the 'unions' squeezes his eyes shut and blocks his ears as he prepares to shoot himself in the foot. The title reads 'Old Hobbits return' but the 'o' is crossed through and an 'a' replaces it making the word read 'habbits'. Context; the government has agreed to amend the country's labour laws and has offered a $25m tax break to the Hollywood studio Warner Brothers in order to get agreement to allow Peter Jackson to make the two 'Hobbit' films in New Zealand. Disagreement between Warner Brothers and NZ Actors Equity over a union demand for negotiations over the terms and conditions offered in the contracts for actors and others working on the film. Helen Kelly is the President of the Council of Trade Unions (CTU). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016372

Description: Hillary Clinton American Secretary of State prepares to leave New Zealand on a large ship which is emptying its bilge tanks that represent 'culture' into the sea. PM John Key stands on the jetty and says 'The nukes stay banned but feel free to keep venting your bilge tanks'. Context; American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to New Zealand in November. The NZ-US Council says the signing of the Wellington Declaration will lead to even closer ties between New Zealand and the United States. NZ-US Council executive director Stephen Jacobi said it would have benefits for both parties in terms of political co-operation, trade, security and defence and sustainable development. The nuclear ban policy would require a referendum before making changes although Wikileaks indicates that some National MPs would certainly like to get rid of it. (NZ Herald 11 January 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 10 December 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016381

Description: Shows City Councillor Mike Lee and Steven Joyce Minister of Transport standing on either side of a plan for a tunnel running between Britomart and Newmarket in Auckland. Mike Lee says 'I have a vision of a tunnel' and Steven Joyce says 'I just have tunnel vision.' Context: Case findings from a $5 million study commissioned by KiwiRail and the former Auckland Regional Transport Authority predicted a $2 billion tunnel in central Auckland would pay for itself more than three times over. Transport Minister Steven Joyce said the report had raised "many unanswered questions", which needed to be clarified before taking the project to the next level. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).