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Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0005187

Description: Shows leader of the opposition National Party, John Key, as a sergeant major, wearing a lemon-squeezer hat and carrying a baton, shouting insults at a very scruffy-looking youth with a gang patch and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Refers to the speech made by John Key at the Orewa Rotary Club January 29th, 2008, the main part of which targeted the problem of teenage crime and unemployment. John Key recommended a 'boot camp' approach. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012135

Description: Prime Minister John Key welcomes Pita Sharples, Co-leader of the Maori Party, to a seat in the sun but points him towards a seat that represents 'Foreshore seabed concession' because all the 'Auckland supercity seats' are taken. Refers to the argument about Maori seats on the supercity council which Pita Sharples advocates. The suggestion in the cartoon is that because the Maori Party has already won what can be seen as a concession in the Foreshore and Seabed debate, (a review) they should not expect to get the seats that they want on the supercity council. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0005184

Description: Shows Prime Minister, Helen Clark, approaching with a lighted match, a member of the Ratana Church, who carries a French horn and is shackled by his ankle to a huge bomb. She says that she is here to celebrate his birthday and historic links with the Labour Party. Behind him National leader, John Key approaches with a cake that National has made and in which is embedded a file. Refers to the visit made by both leaders, to the Ratana Pa annual celebrations marking the birth of Ratana's founder, with the intention of wooing the Maori vote in the run up to the 2008 election. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

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

Reference: DCDL-0013178

Description: Shows Helen Clark and John Key driving a moped scooter over the 'Nippon Clip-ons' of the Auckland Harbour bridge which represent Consensus politics. The clip-ons are dangerously tacked on to the side of the bridge. Refers to the consensus between Labour and National parties. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0010226

Description: A dog with the head of Health Minister, Tony Ryall, barks furiously at Richard Thomson, the chair of the Otago District Health Board, who is standing at a hospital window. Prime Minister, John Key, (who broke his arm in an accident) tells Ryall that Thomson is 'not going to budge' and that he should 'try Bainimarama instead'. Refers to the conviction for fraud of two of Richard Thomson's staff; Thomson himself was held accountable and eventually replaced, though not before he had told Tony Ryall that he wasn't going to resign and that Ryall should show the courage of his convictions and sack him, because the fraud had begun before he had even joined the ODHB and he himself had initiated the investigation which brought the matter to a head. A defiant Mr Thomson told NZPA he believed the real motivation to sack him was because he was a Labour Party member. Mr Ryall's decision reeked of political interference, he said.The fraud actually involved the DHB's former chief information officer Michael Swann and his friend and business associate Kerry Harford were found guilty in December last year of defrauding the board $16.9 million. The fraud happened over a period of six years. The reference to Bainimarama relates to his refusing to make a date for democratic elections in Fiji in spite of an ultimatum from the Pacific Forum. (NZ Herald 17 February 2009) 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: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0011464

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key and Melissa Lee, the National candidate for the Mount Albert by-election held in June 2009. John Key continues to be positive in an ironical way about Melissa Lee in spite of the embarrassing gaffes made by National's inexperienced candidate. In the event Melissa Lee's vote tally was poor and the Labour candidate, David Shearer, won with an increased majority. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005929

Description: Shows Finance Minister, Michael Cullen, and Leader of the National Party, John Key, each standing behind a roadside stall that is laden with jars of honey. The jars are labelled with words such as 'trust me', 'dreams', 'faith', 'blind promises', blind trust', 'big ideas', 'hope' etc. Refers to the promises being made by the two main parties in the run up to the 2008 election. Refers also to the strange cases of people becoming very sick in the Coromandel area after eating honey contaminated as a result of bees feeding on tutu (Coriaria arborea) bushes. Published in the Sunday Times Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0012378

Description: In the first cartoon Prime Minister, John Key, and Co-leader of the Maori Party, Pita Sharples, drive past leader of the Labour Party, Phil Goff, enveloping him in clouds of noxious fumes from their battered old four-wheel drive. A label stuck to the back of the vehicle reads 'Emissions deal' and Pita Sharples leans out of the window and congratulates Phil Goff on walking because it is 'better for the environment'. Refers to the deal about managing emissions that was stitched up between the National government and the Maori Party without the Labour Party. In the lower frame a second cartoon shows three gang members with 'H' on their patches marching past a signpost that points to 'Whanganui, Whaikato, Whaitomo, Whellington, Whestland and Mt Chook'. Refers to the row about putting the 'H' into the name 'Wanganui' and also to the regulation that forbids the wearing of gang patches in the city of Wanganui. The Mayor of Wanganui, Michael Laws, wants the status quo maintained in the spelling of 'Wanganui' and he is responsible for the gand patch ban. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0013337

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 'Maori sovereignty'. 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: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0011514

Description: Shows Rodney Hide Minister for Local Government swinging an axe as though he is fighting in one of the African wars and cutting the red tape of local bodies to shreds. He tells 'bwana', Prime Minister John Key, who stands in the background that the way will soon be clear. Refers to Rodney Hide's enthusiastic attack on what he regards as over-resourced local bodies, particularly his reducing the seven Auckland local bodies to one that will result in a 'supercity'. Published in MG Business Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0012867

Description: Prime Minister John Key holds a paper called 'Auckland Super City Boundaries' and announces that they are not going to slice up Rodney after all. Co-leader of the Maori Party Pita Sharples who stands beside him thinks this is a pity while leader of the ACT Party Rodney Hide looks impervious. Refers to debate about which parts of wider Auckland will be included in the Auckland supercity restructuring. Refers also to the incident when Rodney Hide was recorded at a fund-raising breakfast for his party saying that Prime Minister John Key had done nothing and to Rodney Hide's attack on the use of expenses and perks by politicians and his own use of taxpayers' money to fund his girlfriend's expenses on a recent international trip, for these reasons Rodney Hide may not be so popular with the PM. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0010984

Description: Minister for Local Government, Rodney Hide, and Prime Minister, John Key, both of whom wear babies' nappies, play in a playpen. They pull dolls that represent Aucklanders to pieces and throw them out of the playpen. They also have blocks that spell out 'Auckland' that they are making a mess of stacking neatly. A large block bearing the words 'Royal Commission' is tossed out too. Refers to the determination of the government to make a 'supercity' of Auckland which currently has seven separate councils. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0010296

Description: Former Prime Minister, Helen Clark, sits on a couch relaxing with a glass of wine as she watches footage of the attack at Waitangi on Prime Minister, John Key. She is scornful of the attack and thinks that the protesters should have put more weight into it and perhaps worked on his broken arm. Refers to the traditional protests against prime ministers who attend the Waitangi Day celebrations. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0013269

Description: Shows John Key lounging on a beach chair drinking a cocktail. His adviser tells him that his critics are saying that he is being unpatriotic and that he should spend more time in Omaha rather than Hawaii. Key complains that Nebraska is too cold at this time of the year - Confusing Omaha in Rodney District with that of a city in Nebraska. Refers to the Prime Minister having holidays overseas while the country is in recession. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0011471

Description: Prime Minister John Key and Leader of the opposition Phil Goff stand on a ledge half way up a tall peak named Mt Albert. Phil Goff checks that David (Shearer) is all right as he disappears higher up the mountain and John Key yells down to Melissa (Lee) to get her finger out as she struggles to catch up. Refers to Labour Party candidate David Shearer's resounding victory in the Mt Albert bye-election over National's candidate, Melissa Lee. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012080

Description: Prime Minister, John Key, smiles brightly as he stands at a podium and delivers a speech in which he comments that another benefit of less restricted trans-Tasman travel is that it will make it much easier for Rodney Hide to emigrate to Australia. Rodney Hide sits nearby with his arms stubbornly folded; beside him is a poster reading 'I shall resign over Maori seats'. Refers to the The Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement that is an informal agreement between Australia and New Zealand to allow for the free movement of citizens of one nation to the other. Refers also to the tensions that are simmering over whether there should be Maori seats in the Auckland 'super-city' council. The Royal Commission which reported on Auckland's local government structure recommended reserved Maori seats but the Government scrapped that when it set out its plans for the city. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0011469

Description: Prime Minister John Key stands beside the mayor of Auckland Central John Banks who is dressed in a Superman outfit and explains that he only called John Banks 'Supermayor' because he is the mayor and he will tell you himself that he is 'super'. Refers to a speech made by John Key in which he seemed to endorse John Banks as a favoured candidate for 'Supermayor' of Auckland. This caused outrage among the other mayors. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2003

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DX-001-684

Description: Caricature of John Key, National MP for Helensville. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0011436

Description: Prime Minister John Key tells the Mayor of Central Auckland John Banks to back off, as John Banks, dressed as a Roman emperor and riding on a litter is carried through the streets. Refers to John Key's reference to John Banks as 'super mayor' of Auckland which suggests that the PM has stated an untimely preference for supermayor if or when the seven Auckland councils combine into a single council for a 'supercity'. Published in Scoop.co.nz Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).