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Date: 2015

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0030420

Description: Shows a couple having a cup of tea at their kitchen table. The man reads a newspaper and comments "The Maori King says Key sending a stand-in to Ratana was insulting". The woman replies "Really? Like God sending the Pope to the Philippines!". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023981

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The Politician remarks that he has made a speech attacking headline seekers, inconsistently hoping that it will be front page news in the newspapers. Both John Key and David Shearer attacked 'headline seekers' at the Waitangi Day ceremony. Both made front page news. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023914

Description: Shows David Shearer and John Key waiting on seats at the Ratana Pa during the Ratana Church anniversary celebrations. Key has brought a present of imported chocolates and asks Shearer what he has brought as a gift. Refers to Shearer breaking with tradition and staying on at the Ratana Church an extra day - a day usually zealously reserved for worship rather than faith. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-: Digital cartoons published in The Press, Sunday Star Times, Dominion Post, and other publications

By: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0025499

Description: Shows Hone Harawira telling Te Ururoa Flavell that he does not like the mug of John Key that Flavell is holding. Refers to Harawira calling Flavell uncharismatic and less pleasant than his Maori Party colleagues (Source: 3 News, 6 July 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0022360

Description: Shows in four frames Labour leader David Shearer whispering with his hand over his mouth to a man beside him something that the man is finding hard to hear. David Shearer looks quizzical when the man wonders whether what he heard was that 'Labour doesn't think Maoris own the water either'. Refers to the issue of Maori holding water rights that is holding up Prime Minister John Key's desire to partially sell several state owned assets. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020327

Description: Prime Minister John Key stumbles along a familiar trail carrying the 'SOE Act Rewrite' under his arm. Eventually he comes upon a sign that reads 'Ye Olde Clark trail' and sees ahead a grave marked 'RIP' and a battered copy of the 'Foreshore & Seabed Leg. 2004'. Context: refers to the government's attempt to exempt private investors from Treaty obligations over the SOEs the government wants to sell, by rewriting the SOE Act. Refers also to the failure of the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed legislation by Helen Clark's Labour government. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0020285

Description: Four panel cartoon. The Prime Minister, John Key, and his Deputy, Bill English, discuss the need to include a Treaty of Waitangi role to ensure Maori Party support for the partial asset sales bill. John Key states that they should not treat the Maori Party as a 'Government poodle'. They ponder in silence. Suddenly English suggests 'Chuck 'em a bone?...'. The bill for partial asset sales needed Maori Party support to proceed. The Party, sensitive to accusations of being too subservient to the National Government, was concerned lest Waitangi Treaty provisions be overlooked. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019246

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key helping in the clean-up of the oil spill on Tauranga beaches after the oil spill from the wrecked container ship 'Rena.' He talks into his cell phone saying telling Hone Harawira 'I've got a nice bit of foreshore for ya!' Context: A joke against Hone Harawira the leader of the new Mana Party. Hone Harawira believed strongly that someone should pay for the disaster. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0022356

Description: Shows people in a queue at a busstop. A woman is reading a newspaper which has an article about iwi claiming water rights and demanding all state asset shares and the man next in the queue tells her that they have discovered the 'greed particle'. Context: Refers to the Maori Council taking the question of water rights to the Waitangi Tribunal after Prime Minister John Key announced that the government intended selling shares in several state owned enterprises, mainly power schemes. The 'greed particle' is a joke relating to the search for the Higgs Boson particle, recently in the news. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022863

Description: A worried Hekia Parata, Minister of Education, tells John Key, the Prime Minister, that schools in Canterbury are resisting being merged. John Key replies that the government will go through a 'consultation process' and then 'do what we like'. However the schools are claiming marae status and thus protection under the Treaty of Waitangi. The 'Hui report' which the Prime Minister is holding confirms this fear. The Ministry of Education, given the excuse of the Canterbury earthquakes, announced that many schools there will be merged or closed. Threatened schools, particularly the two Maori language schools, lodged complaints with the Waitangi Tribunal. 'Hui reports' refers to the claims and resulting hui over the water rights of the proposed partial privatisation of state assets. Colour and black and white versions 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-0022892

Description: Shows three ducks named Dewey, Hui and Louie swimming in water. Context: At a hui called by Maori King Tuheitia, Maori said want their rights to water resolved on a national basis before the sale of state owned energy companies. Prime Minister John Key says the issue does not need a national solution and he will be talking with interested parties only (TV3 website 17 September 2012). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: National Business Review Ltd

Reference: DCDL-0022903

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key dressed as a pierrot looking up past a 'High Hopes' bubble as an 'Asset Sales' bubble bursts over his head. Context: a national Maori hui called on government to stop sale of power company shares until it had recognised Maori water rights (Stuff 14 Sept 2012). Cartoon is based on painting 'A Child's World' or 'Bubbles" by Sir John Everest Millais which became famous when it was used an advertisement for Pears Soap. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0014312

Description: The cartoon shows Tariana Turia, Co-leader of the Maori Party, standing in the wreckage of a living room with a rolling pin in her hand. She says to PM John Key that she is so angry about the backflip on ownership of the Ureweras that divorce could result. John Key, who is taking cover behind an upturned table' smiles bravely and says 'Tariana's a great kidder. We've never been happier'. Refers to the u-turn that John Key made over the ownership of the Urewera National Park which he had virtually promised to Tuhoe and his report later that Tariana was 'fine with it'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014356

Description: The cartoon is headed 'Forest slump' a word play on the film 'Forest Gump' and shows the Maori Party logo with trees falling out of it. Refers to John Key's apparent about-turn by denying that Tuhoe would ever be granted ownership of the Urewera National Park after Tuhoe believed that this was going to be the case. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0012172

Description: Shows Prime Minister, John Key, ushering Rodney Hide, Minister for Local Government, into a summer camp for 'kids from struggling families'. He tells the other kids that they should be nice to Rodney as 'he's never had any friends and has never learnt how to share...' Refers to a government initiative that will see thirty thousand children from struggling families get free access to holiday programmes under plans to help them stay out of trouble when school is out. A further 500 children looked after by foster parents or extended family will also get the chance to go to summer camp. The initiatives are cornerstones of a sweeping $84.55 million youth package unveiled by Prime Minister John Key and Social Development Minister Paula Bennett. Refers also to Rodney Hide's controversial refusal to permit dedicated Maori seats on the Auckland 'supercity' council. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0013338

Description: The cartoon shows a mug of coffee from which the Maori flag flies; the mug depicts the face of Prime Minister John Key and is held in the hand of someone representing 'Separatism'. Refers to the controversial decision by the government to fly the Maori flag as well as the traditional New Zealand flag next Waitangi Day. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0012163

Description: Shows two dogs chatting as one of them reads a newspaper which has a headline that reads 'Iwi denied super city seats'. The other dog has a large bandage around its neck which the dog says was put there by humans because his voice was loud, disruptive and upset the neighbours. The first dog comments that he thought they only did that to Maori. Refers to the argument about whether there should be Maori seats on the new Auckland supercity council. The Maori Party (Pita Sharples) wants them, Rodney Hide, leader of ACT has threatened to resign if they get them and the government has to take a compromise position between its two coalition partners. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0014346

Description: The cartoon shows a Maori butcher sharpening his knives as he prepares to take some choice cuts from the Prime Minister John Key. On the wall is a chart showing John Key on hands and knees divided Into cuts such as 'brisket', 'rib', and 'forked tongue'. Refers to a 'joke' by PM John Key when speaking at a tourism event in Auckland; Mr Key made a joke about enjoying a dinner at a Ngati Porou marae on the East Coast this week. He said 'the good news is that I was having dinner with Ngati Porou as opposed to their neighbouring iwi, which is Tuhoe, in which case I would have been dinner, which wouldn't have been quite so attractive'. The joke has been labelled badly timed and insensitive by a Maori Party MP. It was specifically referring to Key's apparent about-turn by denying that Tuhoe would ever be granted ownership of the Urewera National Park after Tuhoe believed that this was going to be the case. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0014386

Description: Prime Minister John Key stands in the Urewera National Park and says that 'The easy thing would have been giving it to Tuhoe who would cherish it forever. The tough call was keeping it so future generations could mine the crap out of it if they so felt...' Refers to Key's apparent about-turn after Tuhoe believed that they were going be granted ownership of the Urewera National Park by denying that this would ever be the case. Refers also to the government's desire to test drill for valuable minerals various 'Schedule 4' areas of national parks - that is the most environmentally valuable. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0014555

Description: The cartoon shows (from left) Minister of Energy and Resources Gerry Brownlee, who is wearing a 'sexy coal' tshirt, Finance Minister Bill English who wears a 'Double Dipton' tshirt, and PM John Key who wears an 'ambitions' tshirt. They stare at three tattered flags that bears the words 'Mining in Parks', 'Kiwibank sale' and 'Urewera settlement'. John Key who also holds a document headed 'whaling' comments that maybe they should do some market research first. Refers to all four of these recent issues - mining in Schedule 4 areas of national parks, government asset sales, the Urewera settlement with Tuhoe and the conservation of whales, as having been extremely contentious. So much so that a statement has been made that Kiwibank is not being sold and the mining is being 'rethought'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).