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Date: 2013

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0023839

Description: Cartoon regarding the problem-laden school payroll system, Novopay, which has had over 8,000 errors since it was implemented in August 2012, including teachers being paid too much, too little, or not at all. Commentary from the artist: 'Given the colossal problems with the Novopay system up to Christmas, doesn't it seem odd that the responsible Minister should then go on holiday for all of the brief period available to cure the problems before school goes back in the new year??? You can guess what's about to happen [You heard it here first].' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0023983

Description: Commentary from the artist: 'Stephen Joyce, aka 'Mr Fixit', seems to be busy inculcating the idea that teachers should get used to the idea that it's normal to exist in a very abnormal state of payroll nightmare.' Shows a classroom full of panicked teachers being attacked by crocodiles. On the blackboard an oblivious 'Mr Fix-it' chalks the acronym 'SNAFU'. The malfunctioning of the teachers' payroll software program 'Novopay' continued despite the appointment of a taskforce under the minister Steven Joyce to address the problem. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0024228

Description: Shows a debt collector pursuing Steven Joyce, Minister of Novopay, regarding the high number of errors with the Novopay system. Commentary from the cartoonist: 'Having messed their pay around to no end, the government has (through its use of debt collectors) treated teachers like common thieves. But who exactly owes who....?' Context: Steven Joyce has sent debt collectors to return wages from teachers who were overpaid due to errors with the Ministry of Education's online payroll system, Novopay. Labour Leader David Shearer has criticised the use of debt collectors, stating that teachers should be the ones sending debt collectors to Steven Joyce's office. (Scoop, 12 March 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021975

Description: A school teacher, looking at the words `'League tables' scrawled in graffiti fashion on the school walls, says 'Sorry kids - those ignorant mongels have struck again...' Running away are two children whose jackets read 'JK' and 'HP'. The name of the school is given as 'Seigeville'. The Minister of Education, Hekia Parata ('HK') and the Prime Minister, John Key ('JK') proposed to measure national standards in education by introducing 'league tables' of individual schools. This was opposed by many in the education profession, especially teachers, who felt themselves 'under seige' by the Ministry of Education. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0020593

Description: Refers to the debate over whether larger classes effect learning. Cartoon suggests larger classes are bad for teacher mental health. 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-0023331

Description: Shows a teacher receiving a pay check with zero pay. Context: In the four pay cycles since the new Novopay system was introduced in August 2012, there were 8673 cases of school staff being either overpaid, underpaid, paid at the wrong rate or not at all. (Stuff 03/11/2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0019107

Description: The title reads 'Working with hopeless cases.' A man shouts at Education Minister Anne Tolley 'For the last and bloody hundredth time, Tolley... If "suspend" and "stand down" mean the SAME thing, what does it MEAN??!!!! Context: In response to questions asked in the house Mrs Tolley said that Deborah Mutu, who now works as a student achievement adviser for the Ministry of Education, was never suspended from her previous employment as principal of a Kaikohe kura while questions about the financial management of the school were investigated. Kura trustees have since confirmed that Mrs Mutu was stood down, and that she and her husband, Hone, who was suspended by the school about the same time, remained on full pay for nearly a year while serious complaints about the pair were investigated. Mrs Tolley had tried to establish a difference between the terms "stood down" and "suspended". (Northern Advocate 12 October 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).