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Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0016211

Description: A man wants a smartphone at a Christmas sale and hopes he can get a cheaper one that is occasionally stupid. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0017457

Description: A couple have visited a travel agency to book a holiday. The man says 'We would like to visit a country which is financially stable and free of natural disasters and civil unrest' and the travel agent asks him 'What's your second choice?' Context - there is a global financial crisis and there is also civil unrest in many African countries and in the Middle East as well as continuing fighting in Afghanistan, difficulties and dangers in Iraq still as well as in Iran and many other parts of the world. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025950

Description: Under the heading 'blown away' a figure from Contact Energy blows towards wind turbines and signs labelled 'proposed wind farm' Waikato's west coast', uprooting them in the process. Refers to news reports on 21 August that Contact Energy were looking to backtrack out of the Hauauru ma raki venture, a proposed wind farm on Waikato's west coast between Port Waikato and Raglan. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025949

Description: A man approaches another man behind a desk labelled PM. He has two large mail bags, one is very large and labelled 'rugby claims', and the other is tiny and labelled 'croquet claims'. The man with the claims says "We should change our national game." Also includes a caption: 'ACC received 59,124 new claims for rugby injuries in its 2012/2013 year - news'. Refers to news reports that rugby-related injuries, especially concussions, were costing the Accident Compensation Corporation millions of dollars per year. Rugby is considered to be New Zealand's national game. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026019

Description: Shows a door to the Labour Party with a sign advertising 'Situations vacant Leader of the Labour Party'. A man stands at the door and explains to the labour party member that "I'm actually looking for permanent work". Context is the contested Labour Party leadership and the party's recent history of short leadership terms. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026072

Description: Shows a Labour Party bus labelled 'Leadership roadshow' with a voice commenting "Keep it well to the left". Refers to the contested role of Leader of the Labour Party and to their place on the political spectrum. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026216

Description: Shows Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler announcing that the OCR (Official Cash Rate) remains the same. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026221

Description: Shows David Cunliffe, the new Labour Party leader, as a soldier in the trenches. He says "Since my promotion - I have placed the Labour Party on a war footing. New uniforms have been ordered". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026222

Description: Shows a doctor telling his patient, who is leaning/listing far back on his heels, that they have been watching too much America's Cup racing. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026217

Description: Shows David Cunliffe, the new Labour Party leader, on a podium announcing "This contest has been a win for Labour and all those New Zealanders who currently don't have a voice". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026495

Description: The re-elected mayor of Auckland, Len Brown, shouting 'Im still here!', flies through the air as Superman. From Auckland City come exclamations: 'It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Len Brown'. Brown's Superman costume covers only the top half of his body, leaving his lower part exposed. Brown was re-elected mayor of Auckland in October 2013. Days after his re-election stories broke regarding Brown having an extra-marital affair with a younger woman, Bevan Chuang, who served on an Auckland Council advisory board. Brown released a statement confirming the affair. Hence his nakedness below the waist. Cartoon refers to a comic book character, Superman, and also to the common term 'Super-City', used for the enlarged Auckland City. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026687

Description: St Peter at the gates of Heaven's 'Extinct Section' welcomes a duck: 'According to a recent Department of Conservation audit - you must be a South Island brown teal duck'. On 14 November 2013 a A Department of Conservation audit showed that the state of 20 bird species had worsened over the past four years. In particular, the South Island brown teal, a duck mainly located in Fiordland and listed as threatened with extinction since 2009, could not be found. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026685

Description: The Labour Party aims a cannon at a balloon labelled 'Govt Skycity deal' as it floats over Auckland City. David Cunliffe, the Labour Party leader, warns his gunner to 'Keep the powder dry'. On 13 November 2013 Labour fired a warning shot at SkyCity, saying it would not honour compensation clauses in a deal that would see the casino operator build a $402 million international convention centre in Auckland in exchange for more gaming machines and an extension of its licences. The 35-year compensation clause was to allow SkyCity compensation if the Crown changed the concessions - a provision seen as targeting a possible Labour-Green government scrapping the deal. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023513

Description: Two men sit at a bar drinking beer, and discussing the number of recent suspensions and injuries on the All Blacks rugby team. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023514

Description: Shows a traffic police officer stopping a man driving a car who is holding a cell phone. The driver says that he thought the phone was smart, until now. Refers to a recent police crackdown on cell phone use while driving. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023515

Description: A woman sits with her husband at the doctor's office, and says that she suspects her husband is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after watching the All Blacks loss at Twickenham. Refers to the New Zealand rugby team, the All Blacks, which lost their final game in an otherwise undefeated season to England on 2 December 2012. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023935

Description: Shows a door-to-door salesman dressed as an American Indian giving an unhappy farmer a quote of $150 for a rain dance. The background shows a farm clearly in a drought. Refers to the drought warning as farmers cope with dry conditions. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0023829

Description: Commentary on the prevalence of fraudulent claims to the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC). Shows two trapeze artists, one of whom hangs backwards and claims to have a bad back; the other artist reaches out to him, but in the process, falls off of his swing, without a net. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024117

Description: A lonely Waikato woman reads an obviously fraudulent profile on an internet dating site. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0023827

Description: Shows a happy looking Black Caps cricket player going to bat with a clock showing the time to be 11:50, and then walking off the field looking dejected at 11:50. Refers to the dismal performance of the New Zealand Black Caps cricket team against South Africa, where New Zealand scored their lowest test score since 1955, scoring only 45 in 19.2 overs. By the end of the first test, they trailed by 207. (Stuff.co.nz, 3/1/13) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).