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Date: 2013

From: Various artists :[Entries in the Young Cartoonist Award. 2013]

By: Drummond, Joshua, active 2013

Reference: DCDL-0025743

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key as a puppet on strings saying that 'Tony's just completing the smelter negotiations... Now, for the next act- the Mighty River Power Sale!'. In the background State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall is being jerked by strings pulled by Rio Tinto. The cartoonist has suggested that the government is not so much negotiating as being 'yanked around by Rio Tinto'. Refers to talks between state owned Meridian Energy and Rio Tinto, the owners of Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. Rio Tinto is one of the world's largest mining companies and is trying to negotiate a long-term subsidy to their power prices. Stuff has reported that: 'The smelter is New Zealand's largest electricity user, taking about 14 per cent of all electricity last year. A shutdown would flood the market with excess power and could potentially put a big dent in the profits of generators like Mighty River Power, which is about to float on the share market.' It is expected that Rio Tinto may sell the smelter, but if they close then power prices would fall flat, not encouraging the float of Mighty River Power. See Stuff, 10 April 2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023486

Description: Former Leader of the Labour Party, Phil Goff, confronts a reporter about his coverage of National Party members of parliament during the 2011 elections in New Zealand. The reporter states he was told not provide media coverage of Goff by members of the National Party. Refers to research by a Massey University professor that four of the country's top newspapers were biased in their coverage of the 2011 election. The study revealed that all four papers exhibited substantial bias in their selection and use of images during the election campaign, most of it in favour of Key and the National Party. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0024531

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key lying in a hospital bed, looking at the menu. He asks a nurse for Mr Ryall's head on a plate. A newspaper reads, 'Hospital meals to be outsourced to hubs- frozen and reheated.' Refers to Minister of Health, Tony Ryall's plans to streamline hospital food production, by having food prepared in hubs in Auckland and Christchurch, and then transported to hospitals across the country. There are concerns that the plan would cause job losses, and have patients eating food up to a week old. (Stuff.co.nz, 11 April 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024990

Description: Shows Finance Minister Bill English, dressed in a chef's uniform holding a platter labelled 'Budget '13'. Members of the National Party leadership, including Hekia Parata, Gerry Brownlee, Judith Collins, Tony Ryall, Steven Joyce, and Prime Minister John Key stand behind him. Key says to English, "Remember chef... Keep pretending it's haute cuisine!" Refers to the release of the 2013 budget for New Zealand, as well as the popular reality cooking show, Masterchef New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0021900

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key, Finance Minister Bill English and State-owned enterprises Minister Tony Ryall in a car whose number plate reads 'asset sales'. They are drag racing causing Winston Peters, leader of NZ First and Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei, to flee. Context: Refers to the government's determination to go ahead with the partial sales of assets, including four power plants, in spite of strong opposition. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019975

Description: Prime Minister John Key and government ministers Gerry Brownlee, Bill English, and [Tony Ryall?] are depicted on a summer beach vacation. All have large pot bellies. Key says 'It's been a great holiday, Gerry, but it's time to get back to business and sort out the economy'. Brownlee says 'Just don't say anything about tightening our belts.' English asks Ryall 'When is yours due?' Context: when parliament returns in 2012 (following the summer break) the National Government were expected to make cuts. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022431

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key, Co-leader of the Maori Party Tariana Turia and Tony Ryall Minister for State Owned Enterprises in a boat that has just come through rapids that represent 'water rights'. Pita Sharples is in the water. Context: The government needs coalition with the Maori Party to ensure numbers. The Maori Council has brought the issue of water rights to the Waitangi Tribunal in a bid to halt government asset sales. The Maori Party has set up a meeting about the water rights issue between the Iwi Leaders Group and the Government which has given assurances to the Maori Party. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017102

Description: A public service CEO sits at a table with PM John Key and says 'You're election promise was not to cut, but to cap!' John Key who clutches a large axe smiles as he asks 'Kneecap?' Context - the Minister of State Services Tony Ryall today (26 March 2009) announced a cap on the number of core government administration staff in the Public Service and selected Crown entities - effective immediately. The cap to be applied globally - to the total full time equivalent (FTE) staff in core government administration - not to individual organizations. National campaigned on "capping" the public service during the 2008 election campaign but this afternoon (8 Feb 2011), Mr Key said his Government had reduced the number of state sector jobs by five per cent. Labour and state sector unions say those job cuts are now affecting the quality of services. Mr Key said there was more to be done to make "government bureaucracy smaller and better" and he had asked for advice on "further reforms to streamline and improve" its performance. (NZ Herald 8 February 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0010226

Description: A dog with the head of Health Minister, Tony Ryall, barks furiously at Richard Thomson, the chair of the Otago District Health Board, who is standing at a hospital window. Prime Minister, John Key, (who broke his arm in an accident) tells Ryall that Thomson is 'not going to budge' and that he should 'try Bainimarama instead'. Refers to the conviction for fraud of two of Richard Thomson's staff; Thomson himself was held accountable and eventually replaced, though not before he had told Tony Ryall that he wasn't going to resign and that Ryall should show the courage of his convictions and sack him, because the fraud had begun before he had even joined the ODHB and he himself had initiated the investigation which brought the matter to a head. A defiant Mr Thomson told NZPA he believed the real motivation to sack him was because he was a Labour Party member. Mr Ryall's decision reeked of political interference, he said.The fraud actually involved the DHB's former chief information officer Michael Swann and his friend and business associate Kerry Harford were found guilty in December last year of defrauding the board $16.9 million. The fraud happened over a period of six years. The reference to Bainimarama relates to his refusing to make a date for democratic elections in Fiji in spite of an ultimatum from the Pacific Forum. (NZ Herald 17 February 2009) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).