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Date: 2011

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

By: New Zealand Press Association

Reference: DCDL-0017922

Description: A woman sits at the breakfast table with her two children surrounded by bills and rates notices. She tears her hair and says 'I'm not feeling the rapture...' A newspaper on the table has a headline reading 'No rapture or end of world as predicted'. Context - The woman is struggling to pay the bills as New Zealand tries to rid itself of debt by belt-tightening. Also the 'rapture' refers to a prediction that the world was going to end. Harold Camping, the 89-year-old California evangelical broadcaster and former civil engineer behind the pronouncement that judgement day was nigh seemed to go silent when nothing happened on 21 May 2011. It was supposed to begin with another earthquake in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: New Zealand Press Association

Reference: DCDL-0017921

Description: Finance Minister, Bill English sits at a table with other members of the 'Strategic Economic Planning Committee'. He puts his hand on his heart and says 'I believe!' The other members of the committee are a cross-eyed Easter bunny carrying a basket of eggs that represent 'jobs', Santa Claus who represents 'wage rises' and a Christmas fairy who represents 'economic growth'. Context - The 2011 May budget has just been announced. The government has made cuts in KiwiSaver, Working for Families, student loans and the public sector and a statement about 'no new spending' in order to try to get the deficit down. The budget cuts are particularly hard on people with low or fixed incomes. Critics are concerned that the government does not appear to have plans for growth and development but is relying on belt-tightening to fix New Zealand's economic problems. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024777

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. A staff member informs the Politician that the opposition will claim that the Politician's forthcoming budget will not help ordinary people but only 'Your mates in big business'. The Politician retorts that the budget has yet to be announced, but that the opposition's claims are true. The cartoon strip points out as a safe prediction that the budget of 16 May 2013 would be helpful to the National government's supporters rather than to those who supported the Labour, Green and New Zealand First opposition parties. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0024745

Description: Shows a series of four elderly men engaged in a kind of 'Chinese whispers' where the figure on the far left reads a headline that "The Government is promising to spend more on aged care!". The message is mistranslated until the fourth man asks "What do you expect when the government spends so little on aged care?" Refers to recent announcements by the Health Minister Tony Ryall that the government will invest $70 million over four years in aged care and dementia services. May also refer to debates around pay rates for those caring for the elderly and claims that the figure is still not enough to cover rising costs. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0024706

Description: Depicts the arm of government wielding a sword which severs 'Budgeting Services'. Commentary reads 'If you live by the sword...' Refers to government cutting of the Ministry of Social Development's Community Response Fund which was set up in 2009 to help social services affected by the recession (NZ Herald 29 April 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Mulheron, Michael, 1958-: Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post

By: Sunday star times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024988

Description: Depicts the New Zealand economy as a huge rusty ship being towed by a rowboat called 'Aotea Rower'. At the helm of the rowboat is Prime Minister John Key dressed as Captain Cook, and valiantly rowing the dinghy is Finance Minister Bill English. Refers to release of 2013 government Budget measures to tackle economic downturn in New Zealand. 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-0024986

Description: Depicts a New Zealand Customs officer inspecting a man's open suitcase at airport customs. She lists aloud the contents of the suitcase "Aha, fresh fruit, dirty boots, a student loan defaulter". Inside the suitcase is hiding a youth. Refers to Budget 2013 measures which will target overseas-based student loan borrowers with new initiatives to increase repayments and reduce defaulting. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Nelson mail (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024987

Description: Depicts Finance Minister Bill English in a hard hat telling a Polynesian boy holding out a bowl to "Beat it". In the background are Minister of Health Tony Ryall and Minister of Housing and Conservation Nick Smith busy building the words 'BUDGET' into a huge wall. Refers to the release of 2013 government Budget and calls by Auckland Chamber of Commerce to boost the funding for Maori and Pacific Island trade training for youth (see Scoop 16 May 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1984

From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Digital scans of cartoons published in the New Plymouth Daily News and the New Zealand Times]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024891

Description: Shows a wealthy couple in the target of the Budget. Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'With an emergency budget looming it looked as if the wealthy were going to be the main target'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1985

From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Digital scans of cartoons published in the New Plymouth Daily News and the New Zealand Times]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024924

Description: Shows Finance Minister Roger Douglas presenting to a member of public his budget - Budget Part A Expediture and Budget Part B Revenue. Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'The budget was to be presented in two parts. The big unknown was what the revenue effects of GST would be'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1984

From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Digital scans of cartoons published in the New Plymouth Daily News and the New Zealand Times]

By: New Zealand times (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024979

Description: Shows Roger Douglas with his arms around a cow (Family care) while another cow (National super) is dead on the chopping block with an axe (Budget) cut through its neck. Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'Labour lost no time in dealing to "National" super by taxing it away for the rich in their first budget. They replaced it with Family care - a means tested supplement to the family benefit'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0025419

Description: Shows a blindfolded finance minister, Bill English, who has taken the donkey's tail from a suitcase labelled budget, and stuck it in the neck of a donkey labelled 'tackling child poverty'. Refers to measures included in the 2013 budget, announced 16 May, that would fight child poverty, although the cartoon follows the allegations by some that the changes are not big enough. Pin the tail on the donkey is a popular children's game. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0025397

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key playing in the New Zealand PGA Golf championship, lining up a putt, and saying to his caddy, "Call English - just his sort of putt... more borrow than one of his budgets." Refers to John Key playing at The Hills course in the 2013 NZ PGA Championship in February 2013. The cartoonist puns on the term 'borrow', used to describe the slope of the green, and to comment on Finance Minister Bill English's budgets. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0025421

Description: Three men comment on a newspaper headlined 'Budget add-ons'. Conversation continues: "When they were precise, conclusive revelations", "Like the naming of our All Blacks" "Not any more!" "Now it's ifs, buts and maybes, with more to come later" "Like the naming of our All Blacks". Refers to the budget announced in May 2013 and to the announcement of two different camps for the All Blacks training squad in May 2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021472

Description: An adviser at a Citizens' Advice Bureau apologises to the Finance minister Bill English for his inability to get through to them by phone. The reason is that people are desperate for budget advice after the announcement of the May 2012 Budget. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021487

Description: The first version shows the budget as a guided missile that has failed to take off after the countdown. The second version describes it in various terms for 'zero' and the third shows a blank page. Context: The 'zero' budget - the 2012 budget was announced on Thursday 24th May and was described as Finance Minister Bill English's Budget has kept good on his promise of a forecast surplus in three years, but in many small steps rather than a few bold ones. Prime Minister John Key says "Our commitment to surplus is not a single-minded goal, It's part of our wider programme to build a more productive and competitive economy." (NZ Herald May 25 2012) Quantity: 3 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0021601

Description: Shows Minister of Finance Bill English pushing a pig labelled "Budget inspired prosperity" off a building. Context: Bill English delivered the Budget 2012 on 24 May 2012. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021052

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. In their determination to post an operating surplus in 2014/15 the 2012 budget to be delivered on 24 May, the government has announced a zero budget. 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-0021321

Description: Shows ACT leader John Banks on a television grinning hard and failing to 'remember' anything much. Finance Minister Bill English is busy writing his 2012 budget speech and thanks John Banks for being able to 'continue offering such high interest accounts'. Context: Refers to John Banks' memory failures over Kim Dotcom's donations to his campaign funds for the Auckland mayor candidacy. Refers also to the austerity budget of 2012. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020645

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Refers to the upcoming 2012 budget. Finance Minister Bill English has signalled a 'zero' budget which means more and contuinuing scrutiny and cuts in public services. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).