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Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017058

Description: A kiwi stands gloomily at the top of a cliff preparing to fall backwards into the recession below. Text reads 'The New Zealand economy steadies itself... preparing for a backward somersault, twisting two-and-a-half turns, double-dipping tuck in the pike position... or as us common folk call it - a fall'. Context - Finance Minister Bill English has confirmed the government is concerned about a double dip-recession, echoing Prime Minister John Key's caution in the face of weak employment figures and a fast-slowing Australian economy. A recession is defined as two successive quarters in which the economy shrinks. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0016093

Description: Finance Minister Bill English as a surgeon is dripping 'tax cuts' into a mortally ill patient who lies on an operating table and who represents 'the economy'; he is agitated that there are 'still no signs of life'. Underneath the table is a bin filled with the patient's organs. Nearby PM John Key suggests that he 'stop hacking bits off' to see if this would improve the situation. Refers to the economy, stagnating because of the need to save and bring down debt. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017926

Description: Text across the top reads 'Planker or plonker?' and shows leader of the Labour Party, Phil Goff, lying across a flimsy construction made of books, concrete blocks and planks and labelled 'Budget response'. Context - planking is a new craze with young people in which they lie flat with their arms at their sides on surfaces from which they could potentially fall - the more dangerous the better - and then they post images of themselves onto the Internet. The cartoon suggests that Phil Goff is a 'plonker' meaning 'someone who is a bit hopeless'. Phil Goff says New Zealand needed a bold vision and gutsy Budget and National failed on both counts. He also says the lackluster Budget tinkers and tampers but does no real good for New Zealanders. But if change is to happen Labour has to present an alternative vision that delivers more than a rehash of the old Labour standbys of more money for apprenticeship training, the reinstatement of research and development tax credits and reversing last year's tax cuts for high-income earners. Change will not happen if the perception remains that there is no alternative from Labour for John Key's optimism alone as a means to solve New Zealand's economic problems. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0029833

Description: Cartoon shows Trade Minister Tim Groser as a trick-or-treater standing outside the door of the 'Secret US-Japan TPP talks'. Groser is dressed as an angel, and holds a bag out. However, it's uncertain if he will get lollies or tricks from the two shadowy figures just inside the door. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0024764

Description: A cow, labelled 'Cowmmodity prices' flies over the moon to illustrate the tile 'Soar point'. Led soaring dairy product prices as well as the drought, the the cost of living rose rapidly during the first half of 2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0018682

Description: The title is 'Curiouser & curiouser'. The Minister of Social Development, Paula Bennett, is shown in four cameos as the Cheshire cat from 'Alice in Wonderland'. The cat represents 'Minister Bennett's credibility'; in the first cameo it grins broadly, in the second the grin remains but the tail is disappearing, in the third there is just an outline of the cat but the grin is still there and in the last cameo just the grin remains holding between its teeth a card that reads 'Benefit card backtrack'. Text accompanying the images reads 'It vanished quite slowly... Beginning with the end of the tail... And ending with the grin Which remained some time after the rest of it had gone...' Context: Under the Government's new youth welfare policy announced by Prime Minister John Key at the weekend, 16, 17 and 18-year-old beneficiaries would receive a payment card for food and clothes from approved stores. Several months ago Ms Bennett criticised this approach as too invasive and hands on. Now she is being criticised by Labour deputy leader Annette King who said Ms Bennett had backtracked on the policy, which she called an "election stunt". (NZ Herald 18 August 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

Reference: DCDL-0021894

Description: Shows a man representing Prime Minister John Key, dying in a desert, as he reaches desperately towards a mirage that represents a 'surplus'. Context: Refers to John Key's vain attempt to reach his target of achieving a budget surplus in 2014/15. He says the government won't wreck the economy to get there. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0018144

Description: The cartoon shows the Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, as a kangaroo, leaping off into the distance. Struggling along behind is NZ PM John Key on a pogo stick thinking that he is 'nearly there'. Text reads 'Keeping up with the neighbours... Context - This probably refers to the National Party's pledge to close the gap between Australian and New Zealand wages by 2025. Finance Minister Bill English was quoted in a newspaper this morning (9 April 2011) as saying New Zealands competitive advantage with Australia included its wage differential, with our 30 per cent cheaper workforce." This amounts to an admission of defeat on the goal of lifting New Zealand's wages against Australia. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017970

Description: The cartoon shows Prime Minister, John Key, offering a wishbone to a member of the public 'anyone'. He says 'Hey! Wanna share our national assets with me?' Context - In January, when PM John Key proposed selling up to 49 per cent of state-owned energy companies Mighty River Power, Meridian, Genesis and Solid Energy and reducing the Government's 75 per cent shareholding in Air New Zealand, he acknowledged that he had work to do to get the country on board. The idea is that New Zealanders will buy shares in these assets. Key says that State owned assets would be a safer investment for many who had been burned by failed finance companies. (NZHerald 27 May 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017991

Description: The cartoon shows Finance Minister Bill English approaching a huge tree that represents 'the Public Service' with a gigantic pair od shears hidden behind his back; he is thinking of a tiny tree in a pot. Context - Cuts in the Public Service because of New Zealand's economic situation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0018237

Description: Leader of the Labour opposition, Phil Goff, stands on the bottom, extremely steep, step, which is labelled 'Capital Gains Tax', of a flight of steps that lead to a door labelled 'Election' and thinks to himself 'This will be a real step change".' Context: The Labour Party has announced that it will introduce a capital gains tax if it wins the November election. Phil Goff says his party's capital gains tax policy will close the largest single loophole in the tax system. The policy includes a 15% tax that would apply to profits made on investment property and shares, but would not cover KiwiSaver payouts, the family home, or niche collectables such as antiques. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0018561

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister's adviser rushes to the minister with the bad news that 'Standard and Poors have downgraded us'. He says he didn't even know they had a basket-case rating'. Context: In early August Standard & Poor's announced that it had lowered the United States' long-term credit rating to AA-plus. Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has warned New Zealand could suffer if market turmoil leads to recession in America and Europe. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0027919

Description: Shows a needle ('Forbes Magazine') about to brust the bubble around a happy New Zealand. Refers to an article in the Forbes magazine entitled '12 Reasons Why New Zealand's Economic Bubble Will End in Disaster' on 17 Apr 2014. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0027935

Description: Shows the MP for Upper Creek telling a journalist that his austerity measures should be endured by the sick, the poor and the elderly. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0020060

Description: State Services Minister and Health Minister, Tony Ryall, is shown as 'Scissorhands' cutting everything in sight. He says he wants to save a billion dollars over four years in the public service. The government has already cut at least 1700 full-time jobs, forced state sector managers to re-prioritise and put a freeze on baselines. He is also Minister of Health, has set up a new National Health Board and is letting hundreds of jobs go as the health sector undergoes major structural change, thereby saving money that he says will go back into the Health Sector. 'Edward Scissorhands' is a 1990 American romantic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. Title from file name Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0028746

Description: Cartoon shows a police officer yelling at a pan handler on the sidewalk of Auckland city. He tells him that beggers are making Auckland unsightly; meanwhile behind him a man throws up in the street, a book shop has closed and sits empty, a two dollar super store and a dairy have opened, and rain falls over the grey city. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0028827

Description: Cartoon shows an angel labelled Economy 2014, delivering a cornucopia full of money. The angel makes eye contact with a wealthy man in a tuxedo, standing outside of a mansion at the top of a cliff, and ignores a poor family down below on the beach. The mother comments, "Well, they did say the economy's looking up". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0028760

Description: Cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key in a tiny boat with an old, sputtering stove pipe for an engine - representing the National Party's policies - trying to break through an enormous iceberg. Key looks out towards a distant boat labelled, 'economy' which is trapped in the ice, and calls out to it, "Not long now..." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0028833

Description: Cartoon shows a nurse pushing a wheelchair labelled NZ with Rollings Stones guitarist Keith Richards. Richards has a cigarette in his mouth and drinks from a bottle of alcohol labelled debt. Text at the top of the cartoon reads, 'The rock star economy', and the nurse says to him, "The world won't be quite so impressed when they find out exactly which one you are". Cartoon references an upcoming New Zealand tour by the British band, as well as comments made by Prime Minister John Key about the New Zealand economy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0028918

Description: Shows two aging rock stars with stars above their heads. Two businessmen in the distance comment "Y'know, that 'Rock star economy' claim might be more accurate than we thought." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).