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Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0005660

Description: Scene shows Finance Minister, Michael Cullen piloting a small biplane. His co-pilot leans out and drops a bomb on Auckland International Airport. Michael Cullen asks if he hit any foreign investors and the co-pilot says that he hit mostly local shareholders. Refers to the bid by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for 40 per cent of the outstanding shares in Auckland International Airport at a price of $3.65 for each share acquired. But the government has introduced a special regulation that imposes a foreign-ownership control test on the country's "major strategic assets," including Auckland Airport. The Canadian investment board confirmed it would continue with the offer and played down the significance of the law. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1996

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[10 original cartoons. 1976-96].

Reference: B-147-064

Description: A large woman with a shopping bag and umbrella complains to an elderly man who agrees. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 297 x 420 mm.

Date: 2010

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016145

Description: A kiwifruit orchardist sidles up to an a wealthy tourist couple in a pub and asks whether they might be foreign investors interested in buying a kiwifruit orchard. Refers to the discovery of the bacterial pathogen PSA that were first seen in a Te Puke gold-fruit orchard and now 28 orchards out of more than 3000 nationwide are confirmed as having the disease in the North and South Islands. Refers to the political debate over foreign ownership of land. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016265

Description: An American Uncle Sam sits at a Casino table stacking up counters in great piles. His opponent looks terrified as he is forced to give up his shirt and braces. Text above reads 'Pacific rim nations in trade discussions with the United states, in Auckland casino. Refers to the negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) - a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between New Zealand, the United States, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam - which are being held in Auckland at Sky City this week. Protesters voiced opposition to the proposed trans-Pacific free trade agreement which they say will strip New Zealand of its strategic assets and open it up to rampant foreign investment. The Sky City hotel with its conference facilities is well-known as the home of the Sky City Casino. Both colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024186

Description: Depicts six scenes of a kiwi bird seeing a worm called 'foreign investment' in the ground which it thinks is good to eat. The kiwi starts to eat it, then is pulled head first into the earth. Refers to statement by Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce that New Zealand needs to be more open to foreign investment if it is to recover from a low employment rate (RNZ 8 Feb 2013). Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020428

Description: A husband comments to another man as they watch his wife doing stepping exercises in front of a television set which has a commentary "on off on off on". Context: Approval by the Overseas Investment Office for the Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin to buy the Crafar farms prompted the unsuccessful group of bidders led by Sir Michael Fay to go to the High Court to ask that Government Ministers be required to make a fresh ruling on the bid. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Fairfax Media Limited (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021965

Description: One of two fathers watching children playing rugby remarks that 'We've come a long way since William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it'. The other replies that now politicians allow foreigners to do it with 'our kids future'. Reputedly William Webb Ellis 'invented' rugby football by picking up the football and running with it. Are politicians allowing foreigners to pick up New Zealand and run away with our future? Colour and black and white versions are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: National Business Review (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022818

Description: Shows a group of Maori politicians and leaders - from left Hone Harawira leader of the Mana Party, Pita Sharples and Tariana Turia, co-leaders of the Maori Party, and ? These people form a powerful lobby group and stand around John Key who appears as a girl and who sings 'I'm just a girl who can't say no.' Context: Prime Minister John Key is determined to sell off some state assets, principally in energy, and remains adamant in spite of huge opposition. Now the Maori Council has taken the question of water rights ownership to the Waitangi Tribunal. The cartoon shows Maori politicians opposed to the selling of assets, some of whom (Maori Party) are needed by the government for numbers. ew Zealand standing around John Key who appears as a girl and who sings 'I'm just a girl who can't say no.' The Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).