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Date: 2013

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Herald on Sunday (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025254

Description: A child is told "Father Christmas is real" in the first part and then as an adult is told by [possibly the Prime Minister, John Key] that "Global warming is real" while Key holds an envelope which reads "carbon tax". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022133

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key riding a blinkered and struggling 'parliament' and announcing the passing of the asset sale law by a single vote a 'resounding victory'. Context: Legislation allowing the partial sale of four state owned energy companies has passed Parliament by a single vote. The absent United Future MP Peter Dunne was reserved for particular criticism. Dunne's vote, combined with that of Act MP John Banks and the 59 of National overcame the 60 dissenting votes of Labour, the Green Party, New Zealand First, the Maori Party and Mana's Hone Harawira. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021068

Description: A man labelled 'Sky City' scores a jackpot on a gaming machine with a winning flush of John Key pictures. Context: Prime Minister John Key was in favour of Sky City casinos building a convention centre in Auckland in return for a law change allowing the casino to have more gaming machines and tables. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022376

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key, convinced that everyone is on solid ground, sitting on a rainbow that represents 'asset sales' and offering to negotiate the issue of 'water rights' with Maori who are represented by a small black cloud passing over the sun. Context: Refers to the government's determination to partially sell several state owned enterprises. The achievement of this goal is being stymied by the Maori Council's decision to take the issue of water rights to the Waitangi Tribunal. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022848

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key at the top of a tall unsupported ladder reaching for the moon which represents 'asset sales'. Context: refers to the government's intention to sell assets which has been delayed because the Maori Council is taking the subject of Maori water rights to the Waitangi Tribunal. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022773

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key's foot stepping on a brake. Context: the Maori Council has taken the government to court to try to establish Maori water rights and thus delay or prevent asset sales. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023074

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key arriving in Hollywood to be greeted by Mickey Mouse who suggests that the PM should feel right at home in Hollywood after the Dotcom saga. Context: Prime Minister visited Hollywood to promote New Zealand as a venue for film-making. He was dogged by the Kim Dotcom fiasco during the visit. Kim Dotcom is an Internet entrepreneur, being charged for copyright infringement who has New Zealand residency. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023075

Description: Show Prime Minister John Key with memory chip stuck in his head. He tells ACT leader John Banks that he will return it in due course. Context: Refers to John Key's failure to remember having heard about Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom several months earlier that he admitted and also to John Banks failure to remember meetings with Kim Dotcom. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023017

Description: Prime Minister John Key is in bed covered in papers titled 'Dotcom spies', 'Dotcom police', 'Dotcom FBI'. Context: In February 2012 the New Zealand Maori Council lodged a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal over Maori ownership rights to water in response to the Government's plan to sell state owned assets in power companies. Later that year Key became embroiled in the Kim Dotcom illegal spying and donations affair. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022957

Description: Shows Kim Dotcom as an octopus holding in his tentacles Prime Minister John Key, ACT leader John Banks and a ghost representing 'GCSB' (Government Communications Security Bureau). Context: Relates to the Dotcom affair. The GCSB has been accused of illegal spying on Kim Dotcom. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022955

Description: Shows two ostriches with their heads in a bucket on which are the words 'The Dotcom affair'. Context: Suggests that both Prime Minister John Key and ACT Party leader John Banks have their heads in the sand over the Dotcom affair. John Banks received donations from Skycity and also from Mr Dotcom for his 2010 campaign for the Auckland mayoralty. He denied knowing who the donors were thus breaking the law. John Key is denying knowledge because he needs John Banks in parliament to give him the majority he needs. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022956

Description: Cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key as the three wise monkeys (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil) sitting next to a sign that reads 'Planet Key'. Context: Suggest that Prime Minister John Key is ignoring the implications of the Dotcom affair as well as other current political problems. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023136

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key triumphantly lifting a lid that represents 'the deficit' from a glass that is maybe half full of maybe half empty. A man representing 'the economy' asks the question. Context: One of the government's election promises was to have the deficit reduced and the budget returned to surplus in 2014 to 2015. It seems that this may be possible but at what cost. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016112

Description: PM John Key holds a card that reads 'Two Wongs don't make a right...' and thinks to himself that the 'travel perk' is 'nothing but "travel murk"'. Refers to the news that the PM says MP travel entitlements are to be abolished but MPs elected before 1990 will keep the perk - follows a demand by the public for transparency after several scandals (Pansy Wong most recently) over misuse of the entitlement. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016115

Description: PM John Key struggles along a road 'going somewhere' carrying a suitcase labeled 'MPs' travel perks' and with a tag reading 'Pansy Wong' that he feels is 'getting heavier by the day...' Refers to the news that the PM says MP travel entitlements are to be abolished but MPs elected before 1990 will keep the perk - follows a demand by the public for transparency after several scandals (Pansy Wong most recently) over misuse of the entitlement. Pansy Wong resigned her portfolios as Ethnic and Women's Affairs Minister because she broke the rules when she and her husband went to China and he conducted business while he was there. Pansy Wong is being further investigated. There are two private companies registered at Ms Wong's Botany electorate office in which Mr Wong has interests. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017020

Description: Text reads 'A matter of values...' PM John Key admires a scantily-clad young woman and pronounces her 'hot'; he then looks at a bespectacled man from the state-sector and pronounces him 'cold'. Context - John Key told Radio Sport host Tony Veitch last week that Actress Elizabeth Hurley was ''hot'' and that he also rated Jessica Alba and Angelina Jolie. John Key says a drive for "better value for money" from New Zealand's state sector including health, welfare, and social services - particularly for children - will be a key focus for his Government this election year. He says 'we will scale up what works, and get rid of what doesn't.' The government has reduced the number of state sector jobs by five per cent. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015901

Description: Text above reads 'New Zealand Film Industry undergoes a screen test in front of the hard men from Hollywood...' A man representing the film industry is dressed in sackcloth and offers a dish of 'humble pie' while tipping ash over his head. Refers to the Hobbit saga that has developed into a dispute between Warner Brothers, represented by Peter Jackson, 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 very nearly caused the film to be made somewhere else. The battle, which has been resolved successfully after meetings between PM John Key and Warner Brothers representatives, divided New Zealanders. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015987

Description: Prime Minister John Key and American Secretary of State Hilary Clinton sit facing one another across a table and Hilary Clinton asks John Key to join military exercises if he has any military left. The title reads 'US - NZ relations...' Hilary Clinton was in New Zealand in early November and during the visit both signed the 'Wellington Declaration' that 'formalises a new strategic partnership between the two countries, commits to regular meetings at foreign minister level, working together on trade and holding annual military talks'. Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully told Morning Report there have always been limitations on interactions because of New Zealand's nuclear free legislation. "It means that while Australia and the United States have an alliance, we don't have one, and we had to try and find a new, positive way of expressing a partnership that wasn't an alliance." (Radio New Zealand News - 5 November 2010). Refers also to the news that the Defence Force is to be overhauled in a radical plan that will see military bases consolidated and current spending trimmed by up to $400 million a year to help fund big ticket purchases. A government White Paper said today the outcome would be a "smaller, modernised and upgraded defence estate", in which private sector financing and expertise might be used for some functions. (Stuff 2 November 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016925

Description: PM John Key looks at the 'NZ In tray' which is stacked high with bills and loans and stealthily opens the door to the 'family silver'. Context - The government's controversial intention to sell off some or parts of some state assets... Prime Minister John Key believes the Government could free up as much as $10 billion from the partial sale of key assets including state owned power companies and a stake in Air New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016111

Description: PM John Key is on his way to the APEC Conference. He is encouraged because a door representing 'Trade with Japan' is ajar. Refers to the APEC Conference where Mr Key attended talks with Japanese leaders who made a significant move towards opening up trade. Japan has been highly protectionist, and Mr Key said the Japanese government was now talking about joining the TPP. "Japan's prime minister intends to have a discussion with the Japanese people over the next few months to see if he can get political buy-in for Japan joining the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership of 9 nations), and if he is able to do so it would be very exciting -- the third largest economy in the world, a huge market already for our goods and services, running at about $6 billion in two-way trade a year and that's with some very high tariffs. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).