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Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0029808

Description: Cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key standing at a podium, giving a speech explaining his position on sending New Zealand military personnel to Iraq. Key says, "I think we should step up and help our friends sort out the mess in Iraq, which, thanks to Prime Ministerial wisdom and fortitude, we played no part in creating..." An advisor stands behind him and whispers, "Psst!! That was Prime Minister Clark, sir!" Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020327

Description: Prime Minister John Key stumbles along a familiar trail carrying the 'SOE Act Rewrite' under his arm. Eventually he comes upon a sign that reads 'Ye Olde Clark trail' and sees ahead a grave marked 'RIP' and a battered copy of the 'Foreshore & Seabed Leg. 2004'. Context: refers to the government's attempt to exempt private investors from Treaty obligations over the SOEs the government wants to sell, by rewriting the SOE Act. Refers also to the failure of the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed legislation by Helen Clark's Labour government. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0020886

Description: Shows President Barack Obama chatting to Prime Minister John Key and commending the NZ PM who was a 'fearless defender of nuclear non-proliferation and saner controls. John Key believes it is he whose praises the president sings but it was former PM David Lange under whose government happened the televised Oxford Union debate in 1985. David Lange successfully argued the proposition that 'nuclear weapons are morally indefensible'. Helen Clark has described New Zealand's nuclear-free legislation as his legacy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023061

Description: Three heavily disguised government spies sit on a park bench. One is holding a newspaper that has the headline 'PM slams spy agency blunders'. The first spy notes that this is typical of Helen Clark to deny responsibilty. The second states that John Key is the Prime Minister. The third expresses surprise and demands to know why they weren't informed. Context: Refers to the Government Communications Security Bureau's illegal surveillance of Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom who the United States wants to extradite to face copyright enfringement charges. The GCSB was apparently unaware that Dotcom was a New Zealand resident, a fact widely and easily known. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0013208

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key as a Maori Chief signing the Post-Election Treaty with Maori Party leaders Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples (resembling Captain Hobson) at Waitangi. Helen Clark is another Maori Chief who has not been invited to sign the treaty and she sits happily looking on in the background. Refers to the Treaty of Waitangi and the agreement between National Party and Maori Party following the general election. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0010781

Description: Prime Minister, John Key, holds a document about the electorate of Mount Albert. Ex-Prime Minister, Helen Clark, marches towards the UN with her suitcase. John Key says that they are only too pleased to see her go. He is keen to get a National mp into the Mount Albert electorate. Helen Clark has been appointed as the new head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).