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Date: 2002

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Star (Dunedin, N.Z.); Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: H-688-001/010

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Fathers taken to task over violent behaviour at children's sports, results of new alcohol study, mothers dealing with families with colds during winter, consequences of genetic engineering in dairy herds, schools try to deal with chronic absenteism, US President threatens Saddam Hussein, government loses $315 million dollars in investments, leaky homes, USA and Iraq face off, New Zealand planes have peices fall off them while they're in the air. Quantity: 10 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A5 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 2007-2013

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DC-Group-0033

Description: Cartoons by Bob Darroch on New Zealand and international political issues. Part of the NZ Cartoon Archive New Zealand freelance cartoonist and illustrator based in Temuka, formerly in newspaper advertising, whose work appears in Whangarei Report and the Bay Report (Bay of Islands). His cartoons have also appeared in the Star (Dunedin) and Stratford Press, the Christchurch Star, the Napier Daily Telegraph (1982-1987), Hutt News (1989-1997), Newslink, Gore (1992-1994), Dargaville News (1994-1999), Eastland Sun, Gisborne (1994-1996) and have been published by Carousel, United Feature syndicate, USA. He started writing and illustrating his own books for children in 1999 with the release of 'Little Kiwi is Scared of the Dark'.

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017656

Description: A man and woman sit on the deck reading the newspaper which features a headline that reads 'I wouldn't mind... John Key'. Their young son says 'Hey Dad - you know you said you wouldn't care who sis came home with as long as she was happy...?' Behind him his sister floats along the path in a cloud of cannabis hand in hand with a dazed-looking bikie clutching a beer bottle. Context - Maori Party MP, Hone Harawira was asked how he would feel if one of his seven children came home with a Pakeha and he replied: "I wouldn't feel comfortable. Like all Pakehas would be happy with their daughter coming home with a Maori boy - and the answer is they wouldn't." Mr Key said he found Mr Harawira's views ridiculous. "It depends on you as an individual but I wouldn't care what ethnicity my kids dated as long as they are happy." (NZH - 3 August 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017623

Description: The scene shows a family at the beach. A very plump father has just jammed a bucket onto the head of a child and kicked him head over heels. His mother tells him that it serves him right for telling his father that 'we're used to one metre rises in sea level because it happens every time he goes swimming'. Context - One of the effects of global warming is rising sea levels. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017637

Description: A woman, in extreme frustration, hauls her husband away from cricket on TV and tries to shove him out into the garden saying 'I agree - ripping up the land ruins the natural beauty of the countryside - but you're still going to dig the garden!' A newspaper on the floor has a headline reading 'OK given to mine conservation land'. Context - the government's decision to give the go-ahead to exploratory drilling for the mining of various minerals in several national parks. This is an extremely controversial move (led by Energy Minister, Gerry Brownlee), which conservationists and the tourist industry are not happy about. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017667

Description: A child rushes into the kitchen and tells her mother that 'Dad was helping Billy by explaining some of the sex-education stuff he got from school - and he fainted'. The mother assumes Billy has fainted but it is actually father who couldn't cope with the explicit material. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017632

Description: A man climbs to the top of a tree to rescue granddad's longjohns that the kids have tied to the tree top like a flag. The children stand to attention down below and salute the flag. The neighbour is offended that the pants are being used as a flag - he has the Union Jack in his garden and father tells him 'No- I'm not promoting a new flag - I'm just recovering the results of the kids' new 'creative thinking' homework activities'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017639

Description: A couple of unemployed youths chat in a park as one counts the money he has stolen from a telephone marketer that he mugged. The other youth has asked him whether he has taken the'MP's advice and become a telephone marketer' but he replies that he mugged one instead. On the ground are newspapers with headings reading 'Dole shake-up. Get out and earn your own income' and '"Plenty of jobs, become a telephone marketer" - MP'. Context - The intention of Paula Bennett,Minister of Social Development, to get people off benefits and into work - the problem is that there is unusually high unemployment at this time. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017665

Description: In five cameos a television reporter closely followed by a cameraman, tells his TV audience in a live recording that he has located a REAL New Zealander, one that symbolises the nation... one that shows ALL the attributes we Kiwis are renowned for... bravery, tenacity, honesty, loyalty, long-suffering...' The reporter arrives unannounced at the front door only to find a notice stuck to it reading 'Gone to Australia'. Context: The economic climate in New Zealand makes Australia, with its higher wages, look like an attractive place to live. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017640

Description: Granddad has just returned rather the worse for wear from an ANZAC ceremony. His daughter calls out from the living room and asks him how baby enjoyed his first 'lest-we-forget' ceremony' and granddad realises with horror that he has come home minus the baby. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017660

Description: The family and friends are playing beach cricket. The father bowls a wild ball and his son says 'At least Dad can't be accused of cheating with the occasional wonky ball. His bowling is ALWAYS wonky'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017642

Description: Rover, the dog, has leapt through the window and bounded onto a bed to deliver a duck to its occupant who is rudely awakened. His wife says 'Don't blame Rover - it was YOUR idea that they should give you a duck in exchange for your lending them the dog'. Context - The beginning of the duck-shooting season. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017653

Description: Two men stand watching a football game that has just ended so that one team is rejoicing while the other curses. On the sideline is an octopus in a tank of water. One of the men says to the other 'It's the answer to the football chiefs refusal to allow electronic technology to settle referee disputes'. Context - Refers to the news that Paddy O'Brien is calling for a greater use of technology in rugby. He says that rugby referees are at a serious disadvantage when compared with rugby league referees. The octopus is a reference to Paul the Octopus, who became famous for correctly predicting the winner of Germany's seven matches at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, as well as the final. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017636

Description: The school bus driver has just read a newspaper report about 'Noisy kids on airline flight' and is amazed to think that 'it made national news that kids were TALKING on a plane'. The children on his bus are totally out of control. Context - An incident on an Air New Zealand plane in which Labour MP Charles Chauvel was reported by the parent of the child concerned to have said three times, increasingly loudly, during a Sunday night flight to Wellington that he wished the child sitting in front of him would "shut up". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017648

Description: Two children sit on the steps outside their house watching smoke pouring out of the glasshouse. One of them says 'Our greenhouse gases would sure upset the Emission Trading Scheme budget... Grandad smokes his pipe in there'. Context - The main elements of New Zealand's ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) were introduced in July of 2010. Some critics object on the grounds that it will not help our economy but opposing critics say it is not much more than window-dressing and will not achieve a lot in terms of real reduction of emissions. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017651

Description: A man arrives at an office that deals with 'E.T.S. credit abd debit claims' and stands smiling smugly at the counter. One of the officials says to another in worried tones 'Says he's entitled to $25 because he planted a tree. And is willing to pay $12.50 because he chopped it down for firewood. So he's here to claim the difference'. Context - The man is being both a buyer (of carbon credits), paying a charge for polluting, and a seller, being rewarded for having reduced emissions. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017631

Description: A man has arrived home with a hire trailer piled high with new acquisitions. He tells his startled wife and children that 'By buying now - I just about saved enough to counteract the interest on the first repayment of the loan I had to get!' His wife holds a newspaper with a headline reading 'GST to increase - buy now'. Context - Refers to the intention of the government to increase the level of GST in order to allow for tax cuts in the May budget. There is much debate about the impact of this on the pockets of those on low and fixed incomes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017626

Description: A newspaper heading reads 'Americans to body-search air travellers from...' An Airport Security guard tells a plump woman who is enthusiastically waiting to be 'patted-down' that 'We don't practise body pat-downs here'. And he adds 'Besides... I don't believe you're even GOING on a plane'. Context - Increased airport security because of terrorist threats. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017655

Description: A man and his wife are out for a day's fishing which has been extremely unfruitful (unfishful?) so that the man is reduced to frying the fish bait over his little fire. His wife who is reading an article in a nespaper about the world being in danger of running out of fish, shouts 'Well dear - at least you won't have to feel guilty about helping the decline of fish numbers'. Context - The problem of overfishing so that stocks are depleted. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017624

Description: A man driving along in the dusk is surprised to see a roadsign showing an image warning that Santa Claus and his sleigh might be about. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).