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Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0023596

Description: Shows a pink suit dress labelled 'Hekia Parata Minister'and high heeled boots walking on their own without a body. There is a sign nearby that reads, 'Teachers Novopay shambles'. Refers to the Novopay school online payroll system, which has made over 8,000 errors in payments to New Zealand teachers since the system was implemented in August 2012. Minister of Education Hekia Parata has received heavy criticism for the implementation of Novopay, but continues to support the use of the system despite its issues. (Stuff.co.nz, 25 Nov 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0024270

Description: Shows a man in gumboots and a sunhat standing in a desert, where the sun shines brightly and a 25 cent piece falls from the sky. A heading says, 'Drought declared .... news' and the man says, 'Only 25 cents an hour has trickled down in the last year'. Refers to a 25 cent increase in the minimum wage to $13.75, which will come into effect on 1 April 2013, amounting to an additional $10 per week for a full-time. Reports have stated that a living wage in New Zealand is $18.40 per hour. 'Trickle-down economics' is the idea that economic benefits to businesses and the weathy will 'trickle-down' to eventually benefit the poor as well. The term is generally used ironically or as pejoritive. New Zealand has suffered a severe drought during summer 2012-2013. (New Zealand Herald, 26 Feb 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0024766

Description: A youth looks at a ladder with a very low first rung. Many steps are missing before the next rung can be reached. 'Big Biz', backed by the government, tells him 'What's yer beef? We think it's a major step on to the job ladder...' In May 2013 the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment introduced the 'starting-out wage' for those under twenty years old. This was below the minimum adult wage and was greeted enthusiastically by many employers as much for getting labour at a minimal cost as for the ostensible purpose of giving the unemployed a start on the 'job ladder'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0024607

Description: Shows a rugby player justifying his $1 million salary because they have to deal with 'stress, anxiety, job security, lack of social support'. Down in the 'real world', a family says that they also face these challenges on $45,000 per year. The average New Zealand salary in 2013 is approximately $55,000 while the New Zealand Rugby Union is about to boost player salaries, pushing the playing wages of top All Blacks close to $750,000 a season, with some also earning in excess of $1 million a year once personal sponsorship deals are added. See Stuff, 21 April 2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0020292

Description: Cartoon shows four well-fed men, identified as Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) drinking champagne. One, holding a newspaper with headlines reading 'Minimum wage raised 50 cents an hour', remarks that with 'snivelling malcontents' having got a wage increase, as CEOs they also needed an increase. In February 2012, the minimum wage was to be raised by 50 cents an hour, less than had been hoped for, but which was criticised by other classes of society. At the same time, excessive pay increases were recorded by already well-paid and under-performing heads of corporations, the civil service and local bodies. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0021455

Description: Shows a caregiver in a resthome for the elderly looking sadly at her mean pay packet. Context: A report from a Human Rights Commission inquiry calls for an increase in pay for aged care workers. Prime Minister John Key says that "It's just that there is a very large cost and that would require us substantially increasing funding, and it's funding we just don't have at the moment." (NZ. Finance Yahoo May 9 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0021603

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key as each of the three monkeys who hear, see and speak no evil. He is sitting on three plinths labelled 'wages for resthome carer'. Context: Key says district health boards will not be given more money to raise pay of low paid aged care workers (Stuff website 28 May 2012). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2015

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0030329

Description: Shows Bill English, Finance Minister, dressed as Elvis Presley and singing "Return to sender...". He holds a letter which states 'Dear Mr English, We really need a pay rise now. Yours sincerely, Low & Middle Income Earners'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).