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Date: 2006

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009685

Description: Shows large UFO stadiums coming to land in Auckland Central. People are running away in horror. Refers to the various plans for a new stadium in Auckland. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014293

Description: A visitor to New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup complains to the man from whom he has rented a pitiful room that he had expected a harbour view because of the large sum he paid. The landlord tells him that he can see the sea from the roof and goes on to ask him if he can rent him some soap. Refers to the huge numbers of visitors expected for the World Cup and the premium that unscrupulous people will be able to charge for rooms. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0018736

Description: Text reads 'News: During the Rugby World Cup cargo ships will continue to unload their freight next to the Party Central Cloud.' The cartoon shows a huge ship unloading cargo right beside the 'Cloud' in which revellers 'get a few on board' during the Rugby World Cup. Context: Cargo ships will regularly be arriving during the Rugby World Cup, dwarfing the Cloud and Party Central. The New Zealand Herald reports 180 cargo ships are expected to dock during the tournament, including six that will park up right next to the long, low-rise Cloud venue. (3News 23 August 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0018433

Description: A man stands in one of the 'sheds' on Queens Wharf; he is on the phone and asks someone 'How much are Rugby World Cup fans paying for beds here in Auckland, and how many do they need?' Context: There was a demand for beds ahead of the Rugby World Cup. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014773

Description: Shows the Minister for the World Cup Murray McCully dressed as a clown and holding a deflating balloon in one hand and a melting lollypop in thee shape of a rugby ball in the other. Behind him is a trestle table laden with children's party food and on the wall is stuck a poster advertising the misspelled 'Party Sentral'. Refers to slowness and indecisiveness over Auckland's preparations for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0013295

Description: Shows an American tourist couple on a tour of the Auckland waterfront in 2011. On the waterfront is a large golden rugby ball monument. The husband tells his wife that is their 'Monument to City Priorities'. Refers to the Auckland city priorities leading up the 2011 World Cup. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0002729

Description: The cartoon shows two men shouting obscenities at each other in two small scenarios. In the first they are shouting about where the new Auckland stadium should be and in the second they are shouting about who should bear the cost. Refers to the preparing of a new stadium for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014324

Description: A group of hopeful young people arrive at the entrance to the 'RWC Party Central' (Rugby World Cup) which includes the words 'Alcohol Free Zone'. The policeman at the entrance tells them that these words do not mean they do not have to pay for alcohol but that there won't be any. There is a call for the RWC Party Central to be alcohol free which is a stance criticised as having the potential to make New Zealand a laughing stock. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014775

Description: The cartoon shows a large pink balloon representing 'Government plans for RWC [Rugby World Cup] Party Central'. Air spurts out of a small hole. Refers to slowness and indecisiveness over Auckland's preparations for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0002297

Description: The scene shows a huge stadium right on the Auckland waterfront. It is hosting the 2011 Rugby World Cup. A ball has been kicked over the edge of the stadium and into the harbour. A seagull and a couple rowing a dinghy look somewhat startled when a man leans over the stadium edge and asks if they will send the ball back. Refers to suggestions that a stadium might be built on the Auckland waterfront in time for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014797

Description: Minister for the Rugby World Cup, Murray McCully, has 'managed to secure the services of an acknowledged World Cup Event Manager' to help him decide on 'Party Central'. Before him is an octopus which has latched itself to a box labeled 'somewhere else' as opposed to another labelled 'Auckland'. Refers to the slow start and indecisiveness around the creating of the events centre 'Party Central' for the Rugby World Cup. The octopus is a two-year old "psychic" octopus, who achieved national celebrity status in Germany for having a 100 percent success rating in choosing match winners. English-born Paul the mollusk, who lives in The Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany, chose the winner for every match that Germany played in, having predicted that Germany would beat Australia, Ghana, England and Argentina but lose to Serbia. Paul makes his "predictions" when two plastic boxes are lowered into his tank, both containing a mussel and the German national flag in one box and the flag of the opposing team in the other. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014251

Description: In the first of two frames a group of people show reverence as they stand before the shroud of Turin. In the second frame a crowd bows down before the Rugby World Cup. Comment on the New Zealand reverence for rugby. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0013833

Description: A man and a woman sit watching television and reading the newspaper. The man comments that now they are squabbling about republicanism and the woman sees that as a diversion from the real issues until the World Cup. Refers to Green Party MP Keith Locke's Head of State Referenda Bill which would send New Zealanders to the polls to decide whether or not to retain the status quo with a British monarch as head of state or move to a New Zealand head of state selected by a democratic process. The bill, which is expected to reach Parliament in March, will have enough support that only two National or ACT Party MPs will have to add their backing for it to pass. The World Cup is to be held in Auckland in 2011 and there seem to be squabbles over designs and finance that makes them far from ready as yet. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012580

Description: Two men walk past a dairy that has several posters leaning against its wall referring to the Rugby World Cup and the stadium spending frenzies in both Auckland and Dunedin as well as the suggestion that the World Cup is predicted to lose $40 million. One of the men believes that it all went so wrong when Hobbs, Umanga and Clark lumbered NZ with the last thing it needs. Refers to the decision to bring the Rugby World Cup to New Zealand in 2011 by former PM Helen Clark, Jock Hobbs the chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union, and former All Black captain Tama Imanga. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

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

Reference: DCDL-0004145

Description: Shows Prime Minister, Helen Clark and Finance Minister, Michael Cullen sitting at a conference desk. A man has arrived dragging a huge ball and chain that bear the words '$50 million Eden Park upgrade'. He explains that John Banks wants to be Mayor of Auckland but he does not want the chains that go with the office. Refers to the debate over whether Auckland rate-payers or the government should pay for the upgrade that Eden Park needs to prepare it for the 2011 Rugby World Cup and the fact that the new mayor, John Banks has overturned the decision made by the old mayor and council that Auckland would foot the bill. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

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

Reference: DCDL-0002949

Description: A secretary in the Office of the Rugby World Cup, phones Trevor Mallard, Minister for the World Cup, to tell him that a man is in the office offering to lend his ladder to help with the temporary seating option, though he wants it back after the event. Refers to anxiety that the government is considering a cheaper temporary seating plan for the Rugby World Cup in 2011 than the expensive option. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014030

Description: In the first of three versions the cartoon shows the words 'RIGHT here', RIGHT now, and WRONG group' with ticks beside the first two 'rights' and a cross beside the 'wrong'. The second version has the text 'out of tune' in the left top corner. The third version has the words 'Putting the feelers out for a World Cup song'. Refers to the choice of a cover of Right Here, Right Now by The Feelers as a marketing jingle for the 2011 Rugby World Cup which has been widely panned by New Zealanders posting on the social networking site Twitter. Three versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0011564

Description: John Banks Mayor of Auckland City sits at a desk offering for 'only $500' Auckland supercity passports and residence and membership of John Banks' hapu. When an official from the immigration Service arrives to investigate John Banks tells him that he will stop this activity if the officer comes up with $85 million to upgrade Queen's Wharf before 2011. Refers to a whole muddle of issues; the Auckland Suprcity issue with John Banks styling himself as mayor, the offering for $500 New Zealand passports to Samoan overstayers and the problem of upgrading Queen's Wharf in time for the Rugby World Cup. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017500

Description: Two farmers chat across the farmyard gate. One comments 'I suppose a giant plastic waka will help keep the traditional culture alive' and the other replies 'With the price of dairy products these days, maybe Fonterra should build a giant plastic milk bottle'. Context - The government has hit back at criticism over a $2 million waka venue centre for the Rugby World Cup (RWC), defending the cost as necessary to host a world-class event. Co-leader of the Maori Party Pita Sharples says the waka will promote Maori culture during the Rugby World Cup. There has also been heated debate about the price of milk for New Zealanders at a time the dairy industry is doing very well. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0004155

Description: Shows six possible uses for a stadium ranging from a potty to a stand for Sports Minister, Trevor Mallard to speak from. Refers to heated debates about the building of a new stadium in Auckland in preparation for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. In the end the idea of building a new stadium was scapped and a decision made to upgrade Eden park. Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called 'Politics. stadium - whalemeat'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).