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Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0016959

Description: As two men play golf they chat about the selling of state assets. One of them thinks that if the Leader of the Labour Party 'Phil Goff is so opposed to the selling of the silver he should tell us what HE'D do' and the other says 'He'd probably dye it!' Context - Prime Minister John Key believes the Government could free up as much as $10 billion from the partial sale of key assets including state owned power companies and a stake in Air New Zealand. oh and he's dyed his hair! Colour and black and white versions available. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0016963

Description: The title is 'Govt to free up $10 billion'. The cartoon shows a map of New Zealand planted with a sign reading 'Some bits for sale'. Context - Prime Minister John Key believes the Government could free up as much as $10 billion from the partial sale of key assets including state owned power companies and a stake in Air New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009527

Description: Shows Michael Cullen, the Finance Minister, as a butcher cutting New Zealand from the Earth. See DCDL-0009528 for black and white version. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009528

Description: Shows Michael Cullen, the Finance Minister, as a butcher cutting New Zealand from the Earth. See DCDL-0009527 for colour version. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0022460

Description: In front of the 'Skycity Casino' stands a line of policemen; an old woman asks if they are the queue for the National Paty Conference. Behind the police the National Party conference attendees skuttle into the conference. Context: refers to the National Party Conference that had a strong police presence to guard against protesters. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0016964

Description: Text reads 'Flog off Key assets - free up $10 billion so, when they go belly up, the government can buy them back for $20 billion.' An image of a signpost with words reading 'ASSet Sales' is centre frame. Context - Prime Minister John Key believes the Government could free up as much as $10 billion from the partial sale of key assets including state owned power companies and a stake in Air New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Facebook (Firm); Scoop (Firm); Twitter Inc (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0025835

Description: A pot of gold, according to its label, worth $30 million, is poured into the aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point. Surrounding onlookers, 'Rio Dorado', 'Tiwai', 'Meridian' and another, make comments. The anonymous person asks 'What the flamin' hell is all that yellow stuff?' 'Tiwai' replies that it is 'liquid gold from the beehive smelter' and 'Meridian' comments 'Never smelt better'. Accompanying note from cartoonist states: '$30 mil is a gilt-edged sticking plaster over a festering smelter. Still, good work if you can get it.' In August 2013, after threats from Rio Tinto ('Rio Dorado' - 'Golden River'), the majority shareholder of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, of closure, the government gave a $30 million subsidy to support the smelter, guard against any unemployment and ensure that the smelter's power supplier, Meridian Energy, would still be able to offer a reasonable share price in the upcoming partial sale of its assets. This was widely regarded as blatant corporate welfare. Published on Martin Doyle's cartoon Facebook site (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Martin-Doyle/607865899238901?ref=hl) and Twitter (Twitter@Mart_cartoons) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-: Digital cartoons published in The Press, Sunday Star Times, Dominion Post, and other publications

By: Dominion post (Newspaper); Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0024190

Description: Depicts Prime Minister John Key fishing while naval ships sink. Ne reaches for a worm in his bait can and doesn't see the Maori taniwha which are ready to bite his hand. Refers to the Supreme Court decision which dismisses the appeal by the New Zealand Maori Council to block partial privitisation of Mighty River Power. Key is preparing to sell the SOE after getting the Supreme Court's go-ahead, but there is still the issue of Maori rights and interests over water. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-: Digital cartoons published in The Press, Sunday Star Times, Dominion Post, and other publications

By: Dominion post (Newspaper); Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0024192

Description: Depicts Minister for State Owned Enterprises Tony Ryall spitting out a hot coal as Finance Minister Bill English looks on. Caption reads 'All choked up'. Refers to collapse of state owned enterprise coal mining company Solid Energy after its debt rose ti $389 million and further significant loss was flagged for its next half year result. Solid Energy was included in the National government's partial state asset sale, but this changed once its finanical decline became clear (NZ Herald 22 Feb 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024188

Description: Depicts Finance Minister Bill English declaring that he can sell off New Zealand state assets. He doesn't see that behind him is a huge roll of paper, the 'referendum' which is running down hill towards him while people cheer it on. Refers to delivery of 392,000 signature petition to Parliament which demands a referendum on the government's asset sales programme. English says the referendum would make no difference to the sale process and the sales are going ahead (Stuff 12 March 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-: Digital cartoons published in The Press, Sunday Star Times, Dominion Post, and other publications

By: Dominion post (Newspaper); Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0024193

Description: Depicts Prime Minister John Key as Icarus flying above New Zealand as MP Peter Dunne as Daedalus looks on concerned. Key is flying with the aid of wings which he doesn't notice are falling apart as he flies over New Zealand. Below him are the SkyCity Casino tower, Solid Energy CEO Don Elder falling to the earth (marked as "the golden handshake"), and above him is an angry sun with a Maori moko (tattoo). Icarus was the son of Daedalus who dared to fly too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax which then melted. Refers to John Key soars high but heading for a fall due to the controversies over the sale of Mighty River Power (Maori water rights), the collapse of Solid Energy and the convention centre secret deal with Sky City. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: National Business Review (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024163

Description: Depicts an elderly couple, the 'Mum and Dad Investors', looking at a electricity hydro dam. refers to confirmation by government that the state asset Mighty River Power is for sale (NZ Herald 8 March 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0024201

Description: The Prime Minister is a playing piece on a boardgame 'Asset Monopoly', with 'Chance' cards and monopoly money, who jumps from one square to the next. Two other pieces, 'Mum' and 'Dad', are on the board but inactive. With the playing of the 'Get out of the Supreme Court Free' card, the asset sale programme was begun. However the Government had landed on 'Chance' square, whose relevant card reads 'Coal price slumps. Bailout needed'. Hence the cry of 'Oops!' Solid Energy, a State Owned Enterprise and one that was to be involved in partial privatisation, suffered badly from the drop in international coal prices and required a large bail-out of public funds. This slowed down the initial enthusiasm for the asset sales. The other two pieces refer to the hypothetical 'Mum and Dad' investors who were supposed to buy shares in the assets released for sale. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024210

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The Politician is informed that a petition calling for a referendum is in his office. He cannot ignore the petition since it fills the whole room. The timing of the strip suggests that the cartoonist is referring to the petition demanding a referendum on asset sales. The Prime Minister's response that he would ignore it may not be practical because of the petition's size. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024776

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The Politician asks his staff member to tell the organisers of a petition, even if it is short by 16,000 names, to hold a referendum. The government is planning on ignoring the results of such a referendum. The petition, organised by the Green and Labour parties, calling for a referendum on asset sales fell short of the required number of names. Since the government, on past form, would ignore the results of any ensuing referendum, the insistence on the validity of a petition for a referendum seemed to many to be pointless. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024782

Description: Depicts wife about to turn the living-room light off, when her husband in his armchair tells her to leave the light on as they have shares in Mighty River Power. Refers to talk by Prime Minister John Key that the sale of Mighty River Power shares would go to 'mum and dad' investors. Initial Public Offering of ordinary shares in Mighty River Power began at 12 noon on Friday 10 May 2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024630

Description: Shows Labour Party leader David Shearer throwing a bomb labelled 'Labour/Greens Power Policy' while telling Green Party co-leader Russel Norman that "It's all about timing". Refers to the strongly emotive media debate around the Government's decision to sell shares in Mighty River Power and other power companies. The bomb refers to claims in the media that the Labour and Green Party joint energy plan, released very close to the Government's floating of the Mighty River shares, was a deliberate act of sabotage. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0024631

Description: Shows a series of four frames featuring John Key as a talking candle, asking "Do you remember the '70s" and the blackouts, and ending with Key himself extinguished and asking "You don't?" Refers to arguments around the Green and Labour Party's plan to retain state ownership of power companies and to cap prices. The plan was released very close to the government's float of shares in Mighty River Power and sparked a war of words in the media between the two parties. John Key was quoted in the media as saying "Really, these people are taking us back to something we abandoned in the 1970s because people used to sit around candles when all the lights went out." The cartoonist's title suggests that Key's comments are 'Not illuminating'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024628

Description: The Politician tells his assistant that the opposition's move is sabotage. The assistant then questions "How do you sabotage something that's already a basket case?". Refers to arguments around the Green and Labour Party's plan to retain state ownership of power companies and to cap prices. The plan was released very close to the government's float of shares in Mighty River Power and sparked a war of words in the media between the two parties. John Key was quoted in the media as describing the plan as "barking mad". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0024727

Description: Depicts Finance Minister Bill English as the captain of the sinking boat 'Mighty River Power share float value' calling down a tube to the engine room asking for 'Full steam ahead' despite the sinking. Refers to effect on Mighty River Power share value from joint policy announcement by Labour and Green parties that they propose to regulate the power industry. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).