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Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0016906

Description: A member of parliament is annoyed when he hears that MPs are to lose their travel perks but brightens when he realizes that they will get a pay rise to compensate. Context - Just before Christmas 2010, the Remuneration Authority, the independent body that sets politicians' pay, confirmed a 1.4 percent increase for their pay, backdated to July and a one-off $2000 payment to cover the reduced use of MPs' travel subsidy. The rise boosts Prime Minister John Key's salary to $400,500 and a backbencher's to $134,800. A further lump sum is also expected early this year after the travel perk was scrapped. Critics consider this greedy and insensitive at a time when many New Zealanders are struggling. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016053

Description: Speaker of the House, Lockwood Smith, wearing little swimming togs and grinning, leans against the door of the 'Parliamentary Trust' with a box of nails and a hammer beside him. He is the proprietor and has nailed up the door. On the other side of the wall, since this is a facade only, a huge pig representing 'MPs' wallows in a trough that represents 'travel perks'. Text above reads 'MPs travel perks now secret'. Lockwood Smith has come up with a solution to the concerns of ratepayers over the amount of money spent by MPs on perks and overseas trips; they simply won't be told. Refers to the news that individual MPs' use of travel perks - such as what was used by Act leader Rodney Hide to take his fiance on an overseas holiday - will now be kept secret under new rules. Previously the quarterly release of members and ministers expenses disclosed the amount spent on this perk, and this is how Mr Hide's trips to Europe and Hawaii with his partner were exposed. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016109

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister is outraged at the idea that MP travel perks could be abolished and replaced by a 'measly $9000 pay increase' because, he says, they rip the system off for FAR more than that. Refers to Lockwood Smith's statement that $9,000 is taken out of MP salaries to pay for the travel subsidies - this suggests that MP salaries should be increased by $9,000. There will be a redesigned scheme to allow subsidies for MPs' work related travel. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0016098

Description: A small fat plane representing 'MPs travel perks' rests on the tarmac. The title reads 'Final hoarding call? (wordplay 'hoarding' and 'boarding') and further text reads 'The plane is ready for departure... unless... of course it's a Qantas flight, then any number of possibilities could occur'. Refers to the news that the PM says MP travel entitlements are to be abolished but MPs elected before 1990 will keep the perk - follows a demand by the public for transparency. Refers also to a recent spate of incidents that have led Qantas to suspend its A380 fleet until it is confident of the safety of the superjumbos following the mid-air explosion which forced one of its aircraft to make an emergency landing in Singapore. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016256

Description: A pansy with the face of MP Pansy Wong grows in a pot labelled 'Wong perks'. Beside the pot is a bag of fertiliser in which a trowel with the face of PM John Key stands; he says 'I'm not protecting her!!' Above is a rhyme entitled 'Pansies', which reads 'Grow best in loose rich soil. Decline in the heat. Do not last a full season. Need water and fertiliser'. Refers to the resignation of Minister of Women's Affairs Pansy Wong after it was revealed that on a trip to China in 2008 her husband Sammy Wong was involved in a business deal. An independent investigation of travel claims by Mrs Wong and her husband Sammy was ordered by Speaker Lockwood. The trip was made with a 90 percent taxpayer-funded rebate on their airfares, and it is against the rules to use the allowance for private business. Mrs Wong has apologised and paid back the $474 rebate for the China trip. An Auditor-General's inquiry called for by the Labour opposition is not considered necessary. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0028686

Description: Shows the MP for Upper Creek talking to Jim where he could make savings. Jim suggests his salary and travel budget. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).