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Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014897

Description: The cartoon shows Minister of Energy and Resources Gerry Brownlee with his mouth open showing two teeth, one labeled 'credibility' and the other 'gap'. Text above reads 'Tasman wage gap $40 wider despite Brownlee's denials...news'. Economic Development Minister Gerry Brownlee has claimed the gap in average wages is now less than it was when Labour left office in November 2008. However, a comparison of average weekly earnings in November 2008 and February this year shows New Zealand wages grew by 5.2 per cent over that period while Australia's grew by 6.7 per cent. The wage gap between New Zealand and Australian workers has widened by $40 to $580 a week since National came to power in late 2008 promising to address the income gap. (Stuff) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017519

Description: Text reads 'Finance Minister says low wages in NZ are "a way of competing with Australia"'. Below, a kangaroo in Australia holds a big bag of money and faces off against a kiwi in New Zealand who holds a much smaller bag of money. Further text reads 'DUEL ECONOMY Presenting pay packets at 5,369,137 paces'. Context - Finance Minister Bill English has come under fire for saying low wages in New Zealand help it compete with neighbouring Australia. Bill English said that 'New Zealand wages are 30 per cent below Australia's giving us an 'advantage'. Labour leader Phil Goff commented "This from a Government which campaigned at the last election on closing the gap with Australia". There is a wordplay on the word 'duel' meaning 'fight' or 'competition' and 'dual meaning 'two'. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1982

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :One folder of original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in the 1970s and 1980s.

Reference: A-305-165

Description: The cartoon shows Uncle Sam holding a blanket, ANZUS Security Blanket, over a quivering figure, New Zealand, and saying there's a hoard of Russians invading the Pacific. Refers to the ANZUS treaty and America wanting to update it. In 1982 the National Government established the Parliamentary Disarmament and Arms Control Committee, in response to growing public concern over ANZUS and the nuclear issue. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Extended Title - Everywhere I see Russians! Millions of them! Pouring into the Pacific! Armed to the teeth! I think I'm going to have to sell you a new security blanket to cope. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, 180 x 270 mm.

Date: 2002

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

Reference: DX-003-093

Description: Prime Minister Helen Clark, and possibly Immigration Minister Lianne Dalzeil welcome Winston Peter's into a circus tent labelled "NZ Circus" where Asians are welcome and Asian is spoken. The very angry Peters is shown with a thunderstorm above his head and a fuse which is lit. Extended Title - NZ circus Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2011

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017084

Description: Text reads 'Marlborough fibre-optic options' and two men discuss the newly introduced Broadband; one says that it is not as fast as smoke signals but better than pigeon post' Context - the Economic Development Ministry on its Rural Broadband Initiative; sources have said the Economic Development Ministry had recommended that Telecom and Vodafone be awarded the $285 million contract to improve rural broadband and that approval by ministers was a formality. (Stuff 1 February 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017057

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister has removed all the waffle from his policy as instructed by the PM but now there is nothing left but a blank piece of paper. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DX-001-517

Description: Caricature of Winston Peters, leader of the New Zealand First Party lifting the sheet on a dead body labelled, Mushtaq. (reference unknown) Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017044

Description: A fat cat 'CEO' holds a glass of champagne in one hand and a newspaper reading 'Minimum wage rises by 25%' in the other. A female cleaner stands in front of him with a mop in a bucket and says 'Tell you what, I'll accept the minimum if you'll accept minimising your maximum...' Context - Minister of Labour Kate Wilkinson has announced an increase, from $12.75 an hour to $13, that would take effect from April 1. "The 25c increase in conjunction with last year's tax cuts ensures that workers on the minimum wage have maintained the buying power of their wages." CEOs continue the trend which has seen their pay outpace that of other workers over the past decade. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017540

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The Minister tells a reporter 'the country's low wage rates will attract overseas businesses! I've already had inquiries from several sweat shops'. Context - Bill English has said that low wages in New Zealand help it compete with neighbouring Australia. Bill English said that 'New Zealand wages are 30 per cent below Australia's giving us an 'advantage'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017533

Description: The cartoon shows Finance Minister Bill English standing on a turnscrew that represents 'NZ wages'; he yells 'Where the bloody hell are ya?!' as the screw is turned by two convicts chained to the handles. Nearby is a newspaper which reads 'Low wages a way of competing with Aus.' Context - Finance Minister Bill English screws the workers; he has come under fire for saying low wages in New Zealand help it compete with neighbouring Australia. Bill English said that 'New Zealand wages are 30 per cent below Australia's giving us an 'advantage'. Labour leader Phil Goff commented "This from a Government which campaigned at the last election on closing the gap with Australia". Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1985

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[36 original political cartoons, drawn for the New Zealand Listener. 1984-1990; and two photocopies].

Reference: C-128-029

Description: Shows Labour Party politician Geoffrey Palmer in America. He's gone there to discuss New Zealand's nuclear free stand. After an initial overwhelmimgly warm welcome he is left in the wilderness of the Harlem back streets. Some of these cartoons may have been displayed in an exhibition curated by Roger Smith for the Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust about 1990-1992 (or about 1986). Other Titles - Taxi. Extended Title - 'Let me carry your bags....' 'Come to our house!' 'We'd like to be your friends....' 'We love you...' 'Gosh, they're very friendly here...' 'Hey, buddy can you spare a dime?' 'Um, how about a New Zealand dollar..?' 'Forget it!' 'Nuclear weapons"... Did you say nuclear weapons?... How many do you want?' 'Say, you look very familiar to me...' '...Whitehouse? man, you must be crazy, this is Harlem!' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, felt tip and letratone. 425 x 640 mm

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0026199

Description: Shows two recreational fishermen discussing how trawlers are going to be fitted with cameras to ensure they don't fish illegally. In the background of the shed are banners and placards which ironically protest against the GCSB Bill and spying. Colour and black and white version available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0024716

Description: Two frames show suburban houses at night where inside a living room, two children bargain with their parents over the cost of showing their parents how to make the old analogue television set recieve the new digital signal. A nearby newspaper headline reads 'Youth Rates'. Refers to New Zealand change to digital television by end of 2013 and to the Starting Out wage which came into effect 1 May 2013. This allows people aged 16 to 19 to be paid 80 percent of the adult minimum wage for the first six months of their employment (Stuff 6 April 2013). Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0025430

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key seated at a desk and addressing a group of three men wearing sunglasses and trench coats. Key says: "Voters say I'm cutting you GCSB chaps too much slack!" One of the men opens up a case and replies "They may say that publicly, Prime Minister, but let us play you what they're saying in private..." Refers to ongoing public debates around the Government's sanction of the GCSB's (Government Communication Security Bureau) role in spying on so-called 'ordinary' New Zealanders. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0025422

Description: Two men seated at a table labelled IPCA (Independent Police Complaints Authority) ask a police officer: "When your officers terrorised busloads of Urewera children what on earth were they thinking?" A thought bubble reveals the policeman thinking about the attacks on the Twin Towers, and ex-President of the United States, George W Bush, who is saying "blah blah blah". Refers to the Authority's investigation into the so-called Urewera raids, which on 23 May, labelled the police actions during the raids unlawful, unjustified and unreasonable. The investigation revealed that during the raids 3 children under 10 allegedly had rifles with red laser lights pointed at them and were kept under armed guard in a shed for nine hours without food or water during the Urewera police raids in 2007. See Stuff, 23.5.2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0025406

Description: Two teachers walk through a school, with one commenting to the other: "It's knowing that if Novopay handled MP's salaries and their back-dated pay hikes, mister fix-it would have it fixed by lunch time!" Refers to the troubled teacher pay system Novopay, where teachers had been under- and over-paid, with a fix seemingly some time away. Mr Fix-it refers to National MP Steven Joyce, the Minister for Economic development. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0025619

Description: Shows Conservation Minister Nick Smith on a tramp calling out 'No tunnel'. The echo he hears is 'But maybe a monorail!". Refers to Smith declining an application by Milford Dart Limited to build an 11.3km bus tunnel beneath parts of Mount Aspiring and Fiordland National parks. Smith is to consider the Riverstone Holdings bid to build the 41km monorail through the Snowdon Conservation Area in the next few months (see Radio New Zealand 18 July 2013). Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017333

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister tells a man that the government has decided that instead of introducing the ultra-fast Broadband, they will go for the cheaper option of 'thinband'. Context - The government plans to set up a Crown-owned fibre investment company to invest in companies which deliver fibre optics - reaching 75 percent of the population over 10 years. The government is committing up to $1.5 billion and expects it to be at least matched by private sector investment. Access to the country's new ultra-fast broadband network could cost up to $80 a month - but there may not be a huge breakthrough in speed, leaked documents reveal. The Herald has obtained a "price book" revealing the charges the Government expects on the fibre network, which will cost taxpayers $1.5 billion. The price book is a document given to potential internet providers and reveals the wholesale cost per month. Retail costs can be estimated by adding an 18 per cent retail margin as defined by the Commerce Commission previously, and GST. That would mean a moderate cost of between $47 and $80 per month for access, with speeds starting at double those on the present copper wire network. NZ Herald 23 March 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0029611

Description: Shows John Key pointing at a skeleton covered in cobwebs representing 'Child poverty problem'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0027972

Description: Shows John Key, Steven Joyce and Tim Groser all discussing National Party position on climate change. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).