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Date: 2013

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024577

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key giving a presentation to a figure lablled, China, who sits next to a large pile of money. Key holds up an outline of New Zealand, next to a screen that says, 'Features: Available in 'clean and green' or customise to your choice.' Key says, 'Don't ask what it is- imagine what it could BE'. Refers to Key's visit to China to discuss trade and tourism. (New Zealand Herald, 10 April 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Fairfax Media Limited (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0020234

Description: Shows a huge bull wearing a judge's wig. Prime Minister John Key, holding a bucket, stares at it in a somewhat flummoxed way. Context: The Crafar farms are New Zealand's Largest Independent Dairy Farming Company. The farms were put into receivership in October 2009. The cartoon refers to the controversy over the offer to purchase that was made by Shanghai-based company Pengxin International Group Limited which was approved by the Overseas Investment Office. The High Court set aside the decision and ordered the Government to consider the application again. There is strong objection by many New Zealanders about selling land to foreigners. B&W and colour versions of this cartoon available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020109

Description: Prime Minister John Key looks on as a Chinese man milks a cow. Context: 'Nine months after it was first lodged, the OIO (Overseas Investment Office) is still considering Shanghai Pengxin's $200 million offer for 16 dairy farms formerly owned by the Crafar family which were placed in receivership two years ago.' The deadline for the decision is January 31. [NZHerald: Jan 20 2012] Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: National Business Review (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020223

Description: Shows characters representing China and the United States arm-wrestling across the Pacific Ocean. In a small frame is Prime Minister John Key flummoxed by 'divided loyalties', 'trade prospects' (with China) but a 'traditional ally' (with the US). Context: Relates to Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in which Mr Groser says anti-China rhetoric coming out of the US is becoming increasingly virulent. He says it seems to be coming from think-tanks and some academics, but does not think it is shared at the top levels of domestic politics. If it is, he says New Zealand would have no choice but to leave the TPP talks. (Radio New Zealand News 11 February 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020851

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key talking on the phone to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. He expresses concern about allowing a group of Chinese boat people to continue from Australia to New Zealand in their frail boat. She wonders therefore when he will be sending a plane for them. Context: Refers to a group of Falun Gong refugees from China who seemed determined to sail all the way to New Zealand after having initially arrived in Australia. The cartoon suggests that neither country wanted them. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: National Business Review (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020283

Description: Prime Minister John Key is in the act of clinching the Crafar Farms deal with a Chinese businessman when a judge from the 'High Court' tosses a hand-grenade onto the table. Context: The Crafar farms are New Zealand's Largest Independent Dairy Farming Company. The farms were put into receivership in October 2009. The cartoon refers to the controversy over the offer to purchase that was made by Shanghai-based company Pengxin International Group Limited which was approved by the Overseas Investment Office. The High Court set aside the decision and ordered the Government to consider the application again. There is strong objection by many New Zealanders about selling land to foreigners. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0020296

Description: Cartoon shows a cow representing the 'Crafar sale' who stares with astonishment at her own udder which appears as Prime Minister, John Key's face and says 'Embarrassed? Me? Why?' Context: The Crafar farms are New Zealand's Largest Independent Dairy Farming Company. The farms were put into receivership in October 2009. The cartoon refers to the controversy over the offer to purchase that was made by Shanghai-based company Pengxin International Group Limited which was approved by the Overseas Investment Office. The High Court set aside the decision and ordered the Government to consider the application again. There is strong objection by many New Zealanders about selling land to foreigners. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015396

Description: Prime Minister John Key and opposition Labour leader Phil Goff shake hands gleefully as they walk away with two pandas which have been acquired as a swap with the Chinese for two 'kiwis' Labour Chris Carter and Maori Party Hone Harawira. Officials have held talks on bringing a pair of Chinese pandas to New Zealand but early results are unlikely, Prime Minister John Key says.Now representatives from the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Environmental Risk Management Authority, the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry's biosecurity division, as well as others from the Internal Affairs Department and Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry are considering requirements. Chris Carter and Hone Harawira have both been embarrassments to their parties, Labour and Maori, in one way or another Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0015989

Description: Prime Minister John Key and American Secretary of State Hilary Clinton sit facing one another across a table as an enormous dragon representing China rears up behind them. The title reads 'The Clinton-Key encounter and the elephant in the room'. The encounter took place when Hilary Clinton visited New Zealand in early November; the two signed the 'Wellington Declaration that 'formalises a new strategic partnership between the two countries, commits to regular meetings at foreign minister level, working together on trade and holding annual military talks'. Refers on the one hand to the free trade deals that are so important to New Zealand and that, thanks to a trading partnership signed in 2008, means that New Zealand now sells to China in seven hours what it used to sell in all of 1972. Refers on the other hand to the sovereignty disputes over the Spratly and Paracel island chains, which are potentially rich in natural resources, have pitted China against some of its neighbors, including Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines. Clinton said the United States and every other nation "has a national interest in freedom of navigation, open access to Asia's maritime commons, and respect for international law in the South China Sea," which contains some of the busiest commercial sea lanes in the world and so she says the Obama administration wants claimants to pursue their disputes in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea rather than through coercion. (America.gov - 23 July 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016414

Description: Prime Minister John Key, facing in two directions at once, paddles along a shoreline wearing a gaudy summer shirt and shorts; looking in one direction he says 'Look, I'm relaxed about it..' and looking in the other he says 'There are two sides to this...' He holds a newspaper with a headline reading 'Cables expose Key over Dalai Lama contradictions'. Refers to news that the NZ Herald has revealed a leaked US Embassy cable that said Key had assured the Chinese premier he would not meet the Dalai Lama. But Key promised voters he would meet him. Foreign Minister Murray McCully insists there was no "official" instruction to senior politicians to avoid meeting the Dalai Lama. Key decided himself to dodge a meeting - and his Cabinet ministers made the same decision, all at the same time, all by themselves. Refers to the Dalai Lama's visit to New Zealand last December 2009. (NZ Herald 26 December 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014792

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key hanging onto the neck by a doglead of an enormous dragon which represents China. John Key assures the farmer threatening to shoot the dragon that he has it under control. Refers to Natural Dairy (NZ) Holdings Ltd, a Chinese company that wants to buy farms in New Zealand, [and that] has lodged an application with foreign investment regulators for approval to buy properties known as the Crafar farms. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).