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Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017018

Description: Prime Minister John Key grins cheerfully as he sets fire to a bonfire made of banknotes that represent 'tax-cuts'; he yells 'Fire! Fire!' and in the next breath says 'Sell some assets!' On the other side of the fire is Finance Minister Bill English who is forking more banknotes onto it. Context - The parlous state of the economy; tax cuts were made in the last budget but then cancelled out by raising GST thus creating a general rise in the cost of living. John Key is now considering selling state owned assets - selling off the family silver. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016187

Description: A man stares in dismay at the newspaper headlines in the 'Daily Bugle'; it has been a bad news week with the Pike River mine disaster, North Korea attacking the south, the failure of the G20 Assembly, the 'Irish economy in ruins', the Black Caps being thrashed and two million lambs dead. However the one bit of good news is Pope Benedict XV1 accepting the use of condoms for gay male prostitutes with HIV - particularly critical for Africa. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0016986

Description: A woman is confused over conflicting messages she is getting about the economy and the part she should play to help it. She is concerned because higher commodity prices have pushed food prices up but is told they have also increased the value of our dollar which means she will pay less for what we import but she is not allowed to buy them because she is supposed to be saving. The man offering the information and advice is PM John Key. Both colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017234

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister tries to guess what Treasury's prediction for the economy is and says they will say 'things will get worse before they get better. His aide tells him that Treasury has not said anything about 'getting better'. Context - The stagnant economy is going to experience even more difficulty because of the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017526

Description: Prime Minister John Key and Finance Minister Bill English stand beside a gigantic tree which bears the words 'Borrow and Spend'. Bill English says 'There's demand we make some effort to cut this down, John!' and John Key replies 'No worries, Bill I've got the rubber scissors here'. Context - criticism of the government's handling of the economy. Suggests that the two ministers don't agree and that the prime minister is less anxious to cut borrowing and spending than the finance minister. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016984

Description: Two crocodiles bite each other's tails; one represents 'unemployment figures' and the other 'The economy improving'. Context - 'New Zealand's jobless rate unexpectedly widened in the fourth quarter, sparking a sell-off in the kiwi dollar which dropped as much as half a cent on the release as the country's economic recovery struggles to take hold'. 'The Reserve Bank is forecasting a return to growth this year after the economy narrowly avoided recession in 2010. The implication of the cartoon is that the 'unemployment figures' would seem to cast doubt over a claim to an improved economy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017407

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. A reporter asks the minister if he is worried about the amount of money the country owes and the minister confidently reassures him that he is not at all worried but he sweats with relief that he wasn't asked whether he was concerned about being able to pay it back. Context - Could refer to Bill English as Finance Minister and New Zealand's high debt which has been increased by the Christchurch earthquakes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017494

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. An adviser tells the minister that the PM wants him to justify spending 2 million on a waka made of plastic. The minister retorts angrily that he wouldn't have approved the spending had he known the fact, not that it was to be made of plastic but that it had to be justified. Context - The government has hit back at criticism over a $2 million venue centre in the shape of a waka 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 and at other events (like the America's Cup). Labour Party MP Shane Jones asks "How can Dr Sharples and Prime Minister John Key actually believe that this expensive indulgence is a positive advertisement for Maori? The truth is they don't but they're both working together in a desperate effort to keep the Maori Party afloat. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016895

Description: The title reads 'NZ business community opinion...' A man sits on s tool with his feet in a bucket of water - on the bucket are the words 'recovery 2011'. The man thinks it 'could be worse... not cold, merely tepid...' Context - The NZ economy has shown positive signs recently including improvements in business and consumer confidence in January, a rise in job advertisements, a return to growth in the manufacturing sector, as well as record highs for export commodity prices but inflation pressures are likely to appear quite benign through 2011 and spending by households remains torpid. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017324

Description: The cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key as a large bird; he smiles as he offers a mouthful of worms to a number of hungry businessmen in a nest. Context - Published in New Zealand Herald Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015962

Description: A group of children are out 'tricking and treating' for Halloween. A groaning ragged skeletal man walks past them and they realize that he is not trick or treating but is the New Zealand economy who 'always looks like that'. Reference to the economy struggling out of the recession. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017180

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister has presented the PM with his 'idea of introducing a carbon tax to reduce emissions' and is eager to know whether the PM liked it. His aide says it 'has gone up in smoke' (ie 'been burned'). Context - the continuing struggle to get carbon emissions down which has not been helped by the PM's burning of a good idea. There is a certain amount of ironic truth in the cartoon which suggests that the government is not taking global warming seriously in its struggle to stabilise the economy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016931

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0016936

Description: PM John Key sits at his desk looking grim. Everything in the room has a 'for sale' label attached to it. Context - Prime Minister John Key believes the Government could free up as much as $10 billion from the partial sale of key assets including state owned power companies and a stake in Air New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016073

Description: Prime Minister John Key and Governor of the Reserve Bank Alan Bollard are flying in a hot air balloon. John Key starts by declaring that he cannot interfere but then proceeds to do so by asking Alan Bollard to have the Reserve Bank devalue the Kiwi dollar. Alan Bollard wishes he could throw Key out of the basket but thinks it would make things worse. The surge in the kiwi dollar is related to the weak US currency rather than New Zealand's economy. Prime Minister John Key says the Government has no intention of intervening to try to bring down the New Zealand dollar, despite acknowledging the huge pressure the strong currency is putting on exporters. Mr Key says he has had no advice so far about the Reserve Bank increasing the cash supply in order to cheapen the New Zealand dollar. (Radio New Zealand News 1 November 2010) Bollard said the kiwi's strength against the US dollar, and recent volatility on a trade-weighted basis was outside the central bank's control and he talked down the ability of the Bank to push down the currency through intervention. (TVNZ 10 November 2010) 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: 2010

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016899

Description: A couple are shopping in a supermarket. The woman says that 'Standard and Poor says the country's high debt level is our fault' and her husband replies 'I was thinking of taking out a mortgage to buy a block of cheese'. Context - New Zealand is a highly indebted country with a high exchange rate. The block of cheese comment relates to a joke made by John Key when Labour announced a tax cut in the 2008 budget of $16 which Key pointed out would buy a block of cheese. Quote 'Labour will get a revival before going to the polls, it thinks, having given the average worker of New Zealand a family sized block of cheese. That is what the tax cut is worth'. (NZH May 23 2008) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017053

Description: A woman reads the newspaper and comments to her husband that 'Bill English thinks we have the potential to slip back into recession...' The husband who is half asleep in an armchair sipping on a glass of wine says 'better build some more bike lanes...' Context - Finance Minister Bill English has confirmed the government is concerned about a double dip-recession, echoing Prime Minister John Key's caution in the face of weak employment figures and a fast-slowing Australian economy. A recession is defined as two successive quarters in which the economy shrinks. The 'bike lanes' comment is a perception of how the government might deal with the problem based on performance to date. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017003

Description: Around a table sit Minister for Energy and Economic Development Gerry Brownlee, Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully, PM John Key and Finance Minister Bill English; Gerry Brownlee says that tourism now earns more than farming, Murray McCully argues that 'we are still dependent on wool' and John Key laughs and says that 'we can't pull tourism over peoples' eyes'. Context - Tourism outstrips farming as top export earner. Figures released by Statistics NZ show international tourists spent $9.5 billion while visiting New Zealand for the year ending March 2010. Tourism exports contribute more than $560 million more than dairy exports - worth $8.9 billion over the same period, down from $9.9 billion the previous year. (ODT Hamish McNeilly 18 November 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).