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Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021291

Description: Context: Leader of the ACT Party, John Banks, lied about so-called anonymous donations made to his Auckland mayoralty campaign. In fact they had come from Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021366

Description: Context: John Banks has been in big trouble over the Dotcom affair in which he failed to disclose that he knew Dotcom donated funds for his Auckland mayoral campaign and then lied and 'failed to remember' various other embarrassing incidents. John Key has yet to sack him. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021585

Description: Shows John Key attempting to silence Hekia Parata who is holding papers about class size. Behind Key is John Banks who has been put under a blanket. Banks is accompanied by a headless man with a suitcase of money and his friend Mr Crimp. Context: Parata has been criticised for National government plans to increase class sizes and fire teachers. Key intervened and claimed that no school would lose more than two teachers. (NZ Herald website 30 May 2012). Key has refused to sack ACT MP John Banks despite allegations that Banks knew his anonymous donor Kim Dotcom (NZ Herald website 7 May 2012) and accepted donations from anti Maori Invercargill businessman Louis Crimp (NZ herald website 21 May 2012). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021198

Description: Shows ACT leader John Banks being conveyed in a charabank in Hong Kong. Context: The references to memory relate to John Banks inability to recall having received hospitality from millionaire Kim Dotcom with a discounted deal at Kim Dotcom's favourite Hong Kong hotel during his stay there last year. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021119

Description: Context: ACT Party leader John Banks received a donation from internet millionaire Kim Dotcom during his campaign for the Auckland supercity mayoralty in 2010 but declared it as anonymous in his campaign returns. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0022448

Description: Shows ACT leader John Banks denying all knowledge. Context: refers to the Police announcing they don't have enough evidence to prosecute John Banks over his 'anonymous' campaign donations. John Banks received donations from Skycity and also from Mr Dotcom for his 2010 campaign for the Auckland mayoralty. He denied knowing who the donors were thus breaking the law. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0022852

Description: Shows a blindfolded ass with a sword in one hand and two bags of money in the other. ACT leader John Banks crawls on his belly to help the blind ass by picking up money that is spilling from the bags. Context: quoted comments of Associate Minister of Education John Banks as quoted by Kim Dotcom to the NZ Police. John Banks tried to justify his actions by persuading Kim Dotcom that he could help him more if the donations were anonymous. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0022998

Description: ACT Party leader John Banks addresses a crowd under a sign reading 'story time with the associate minister of education John Banks. This week: The Great Escape''. Banks tells the audience that 'A team of the very best police officers that this country could assemble went through this intensively and extensively. They weighed every word and every witness, every sentence of every witness, every paragraph of every witness, and they concluded no charges, and we've moved on'. Context: John Banks was embroiled in controversy over donations he received from SkyCity and German millionaire Kim Dotcom during his campaign for the Auckland mayoralty in 2010. A police investigation into the donations agreed with Banks's position and he was not prosecuted. c Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0023164

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key and ACT leader John Banks drinking tea. Both are having trouble with their memories. Cartoon accompanied by a lot of text on the subject of Lance Armstrong a the doping scandal and the two politicians and memory problems. Context: Refers to the sensational announcement that Lance Armstrong had been using illegal drugs during his record-breaking cycling career. I use that as a metaphor for the constant 'can't remember' responses given by PM John Key (re the spy agencies and Kim Dotcom) and John Banks [re Kim Dotcom]. Obviously the tea cups refers to the infamous 'teapot tapes' farce palyed out before the Election. (Context notes by cartoonist) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).