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Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017413

Description: Leader of the Labour Party Phil Goff slips on a banana skin; in the background is the Beehive, and Labour's Chief Whip Darren Hughes walks away looking somewhat dejected. Context - Chief Labour Party whip Darren Hughes has been forced to resign after an 18 year old student laid a sex complaint with police. Police are still investigating. The mishandling of the affair by Phil Goff is yet another blow for the Labour Party as the November election approaches. The cartoon accompanies an article by Tracy Watkins in 'Political Week' - it is entitled 'Hughes' problem, Goff's nightmare'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017401

Description: Text at the top reads 'A fear crack'; a whip lashes across the cartoon and ends in the word 'Labour'. Below is the word 'WHIPLASH Hughes at fault?' A second version has text at the top reading 'A fear crack in election year' and below is the word 'LABOUR' with a fernleaf above and a whip lashing through it; below is the word 'whiplash!' A third version is the same as the first but has the text 'A fear crack in election year' at the top. Context - Chief Labour Party whip Darren Hughes has been forced to resign after an 18 year old student laid a sex complaint with police. Police are still investigating. This is yet another blow for the Labour Party as the November election approaches. There is a wordplay on 'whip' as in 'chief whip' and 'cracking whips'. Quantity: 3 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017402

Description: Text above reads 'Hughes right & Hughes wrong?' (wordplay on 'Who's right and who's wrong?) Above the words 'LABOUR whiplash!' is a fernleaf ending in a lashing whip. Context - Chief Labour Party whip Darren Hughes has been forced to resign after an 18 year old student laid a sex complaint against him with police. Police are still investigating. This is yet another blow for the Labour Party as the November election approaches. The word 'whiplash' suggests an over-hasty reaction. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017392

Description: Chief whip for the Labour Party, Darren Hughes, whips in a frenzy the naked back of Labour Party leader Phil Goff who thinks to himself 'That *!#* whip has to go!.. Context - Darren Hughes has been forced to resign after an 18 year old student laid a sex complaint with police. Police are still investigating. This is yet another blow for the Labour Party as the November election approaches. There is a wordplay on '*!#* whip' and another word often used to describe an excessively stupid individual. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0001545

Description: A police car tears out of a tunnel, leaving Waitara as fast as possible. The police have finally been acquitted in the Steven Wallace case. On 4 December 2002, after less than three hours deliberation, the jury of ten (one of the remaining jurors being absent because of illness on the final day) delivered a verdict of not guilty after Steven Wallace was shot and killed by a police constable in April of 2000. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017114

Description: Two men sit in a bar over a beer and watch the news on television showing crowds of Egyptian people demonstrating against President Mubarak. One of them says 'police brutality' was one of the factors that started the protests and the other expresses relief that New Zealand doesn't have that problem. But the first man watches a policeman being attacked through the window and says 'sadly, in a way, we kinda do!' Context - the popular uprising in Egypt aimed at overthrowing Mubarak and initiating democratic elections and in New Zealand several attacks against individual police personel in recent months. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0016879

Description: A policeman stands inside a taped off crime scene area; text reading 'Political scene do not cross' is printed on the tapes. Context - An independent report in police conduct by PricewaterhouseCoopers found change had not happened fast enough, as "senior management lacks the confidence and adeptness to make bold, circuit-breaking and symbolic moves that will change the DNA of the organisation". Police Association president Greg O'Connor says the report 'is too narrowly focused and could end up being counter-productive'. (NZ Herald 27 January 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0016826

Description: A policeman is assaulted from all sides by flying bottles, abuse, a machete in the head and a dagger in the knee. A newspaper nearby reads 'The public has a right to expect a higher standard of behaviour from police'. Context; Senior Constable Bruce Mellor, of Waiouru, was "jumped" from behind and brutally attacked with a machete before being left for dead on the side of the road after he pulled over a stolen car about 6am on December 11. A Commission of Inquiry into the conduct of the police, completed nearly four years ago concluded with 48 recommendations. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016943

Description: In six frames a policeman reshapes his police cap into a Black Cap saying that because of the 'poor standard', 'bad management', lack of 'confidence' and non performance of the police he might as well join the Black Caps. Context - The Black Caps have had very disapponting results recently. Also the recent independent report on police conduct by PricewaterhouseCoopers, finds change had not happened fast enough, as "senior management lacks the confidence and adeptness to make bold, circuit-breaking and symbolic moves that will change the DNA of the organisation". Police Association president Greg O'Connor says the report 'is too narrowly focused and could end up being counter-productive'. (NZ Herald 27 January 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017854

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister yells down the phone that he still has the letter of complaint and looks for it in his filing cabinet which is his rubbish bin. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0016890

Description: A policeman is startled as someone throws a report that hits him on the head and knocks off his hat. The report is the 'State Services Commission Report on the New Zealand Police'. Text reads 'COP IT!' Context - The independent report on police conduct by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, released last night, found change had not happened fast enough, as "senior management lacks the confidence and adeptness to make bold, circuit-breaking and symbolic moves that will change the DNA of the organisation". Police Association president Greg O'Connor says the report 'is too narrowly focused and could end up being counter-productive'. (NZ Herald 27 January 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016896

Description: A man hits a policeman over the head with the 'PriceWaterhouseCoopers report' and says 'another assault on the thin blue line'. Context - The recent independent report on police conduct by PricewaterhouseCoopers, finds change had not happened fast enough, as "senior management lacks the confidence and adeptness to make bold, circuit-breaking and symbolic moves that will change the DNA of the organisation". Police Association president Greg O'Connor says the report 'is too narrowly focused and could end up being counter-productive'. (NZ Herald 27 January 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0008426

Description: Shows a man wearing a peg on his nose running away from two violently blowing geysers 'Child care' and 'Policing (Geyser)' at the Rotorua Thermal/Moral Wonderland. Refers to the death of Rotorua toddler Nia Glassie. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0008189

Description: "The Underzone" cartoon strip. Shows a long, waving and crooked arm holding a gun, heading for Stanmore Road. Someone asks if they are sure it is a taser. Refers to the fatal shooting of Stephen Bellingham by police on September 26, 2007 in Stanmore Road, Linwood, Christchurch. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024292

Description: A school principal comments on a report calling for the government to tackle bullying in schools, saying that if something is not done half of his teachers could feel unsafe and resign. A report issued by the Children's Commissioner, Cindy Kiro, after a meeting in March 2013 in Wellington on school violence, warned that victims could sue teachers and schools who were slack in dealing with bullying. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0025035

Description: A policeman with outsize arms reads a newspaper with the headlines 'Ureweras - Cops at fault'. He comments 'Better heavy handed than limp wristed!' In May 2013 the Independent Police Conduct Authority branded the 2007 Urewera raids at Ruatoki to be unlawful and their execution to be heavy-handed. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.); Timaru herald (Newspaper); Manawatu standard (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025022

Description: Title reads 'NZ Police found guilty of acting unlawfully in Tuhoe raid - Hat responsible for them being there in the first place is still at large'. Below them are six caricatures of the colourful Tuhoe protester, Tame Iti, wearing a selection of hats. The cartoonist's comment is 'ID Parade'. Refers to the Independent Police Conduct Authority finding on 22 May 2013 that actions by the New Zealand Police during the Ruatoki raids were unlawful, although the operation overall was reasonable and justified. Tame Iti, one of the Tuhoe protagonists in the affair who had been released recently from prison, was noted for his tendency to wear a variety of hats. 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]

Reference: DCDL-0025370

Description: Shows New Zealand First MP Brendan Horan pointing to a dark cloud with the face of party leader Winston Peters, saying '...Suddenly...out of left field...what I believe will prove to be a storm in a teacup'. Refers to Horan's previous career as a weather reader on One News, and to Horan's expulsion from the New Zealand First Party by leader Winston Peters on 4 December 2012. Peters refused to back down even though Horan claimed he had been treated unfairly, saying that the allegations he had misappropriated his late mother's money remained unproven. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0029873

Description: Cartoon shows New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, making a complaint to police that Colin Craig, leader of the Conservative Party, is "stealing all of my policies!" The police officer tries to assure Peters that "NZ police DO NOT hide burglaries, under-report robberies, or ignore thefts," and thinks to himself, "Can't wait till the election is over..." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]

Reference: DCDL-0030170

Description: Shows the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, telling David Benson-Pope that she is still behind him on Thursday but at a further distance than on Monday. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).