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Date: 2011

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0019459

Description: Finance Minister Bill English carries an axe and walks along with his arm round a man from 'Treasury'. He says 'We'll call it the govt's consultative job creation scheme'. A newspaper headline displayed nearby reads 'Treasury spends $13m on 200 consultants advising on Public Service cutbacks'. Context: the government is determined to cut back the Public Service in its drive to manage the economy. Treasury is defending its use of 200 consultants at a cost of more than $13 million while advising the Government to trim the ranks of the public service. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0023941

Description: Shows Hekia Parata at the beach trying to swim with an inflatable. In the background is a life guard telling an unidentified man that they should let Parata swim with the inflatable as the wings (which represent Key and English) are not foolproof. Refers to how both Key and English are keeping Parata 'afloat' politically. 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).

Date: 2013

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0025009

Description: Portrays Finance Minister Bill English as a bulldozer, leaving a train of destruction in his wake. Broken rocks fly behind the bulldozer, reading 'environment', 'pay rates', 'police', 'child poverty', 'health', 'education', 'jobs', 'food prices', 'state housing', and 'welfare'. Refers to the release of the 2013 budget for New Zealand, which predicts a surplus for the first time in five years. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0025007

Description: Shows Finance Minister Bill English standing in the desert and pouring drops of water out of a watering can with a dollar sign on it. A nearby sign reads, budget initiatives. Refers to the release of the 2013 New Zealand budget. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0021602

Description: Shows Minister of Finance Bill Enlgish wearing a Native American feather headdress and sacrificing a lamb called 'Growth' on the altar of "The Surplus". Context: Bill English delivered Budget 2012 on 24 May 2012 claiming that it would get New Zealand back to fiscal surplus and take next steps to build growth (National Party website 24 May 2012) Quantity: 1 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: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0020898

Description: Shows Finance Minister Bill English sucking on a baby's dummy representing 'veto'. Context: The issue of paid parental leave was thrown up again this week when Labour MP Sue Moroney's private members bill, extending paid parental leave to six months, was pulled out of the parliamentary ballot. Acting Prime Minister Bill English told a media briefing this afternoon the government would use its veto to stop the bill becoming law, even if the bulk of Parliament voted for it, as the current numbers indicate. (NBR April 11 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0021451

Description: Shows Finance Minister Bill English with a baguette stuck through his head and protruding fromm either ear. Context: News on the radio reports that Europeans are questioning the efficacy of austerity measures but Bill English is determined to proceed with austerity measures in New Zealand. Europeans are questioning austerity measures without at the same time a strong focus on development. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0021600

Description: Shows Finance Minister Bill English with a 'zero' for a head. Context: 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 which means a reduction in the public service and other austerity measures. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0020285

Description: Four panel cartoon. The Prime Minister, John Key, and his Deputy, Bill English, discuss the need to include a Treaty of Waitangi role to ensure Maori Party support for the partial asset sales bill. John Key states that they should not treat the Maori Party as a 'Government poodle'. They ponder in silence. Suddenly English suggests 'Chuck 'em a bone?...'. The bill for partial asset sales needed Maori Party support to proceed. The Party, sensitive to accusations of being too subservient to the National Government, was concerned lest Waitangi Treaty provisions be overlooked. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0020299

Description: Shows Finance Minister Bill English with his foot in his mouth over asset sales. Context: Bill English said the plan to sell up to 49 per cent of the four power companies and to reduce its stake in Air NZ would result in a $6 billion reduction in net debt. It would also fund new capital investment, such as schools and hospitals. Government has acknowledged that the state owned power company profits it will lose as a result of partially selling them will exceed the savings from the resulting reduction in debt. (NZ Herald - Feb 16 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0023050

Description: Shows Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom as a baby lying on the floor waving a rattle printed with the word 'farce'. He has spat three dummies that lie on the ground nearby and have inside the rubber bulb Finance Minister Bill English, Prime Minister John Key, and a spy from the 'GCSB' (Government Communications Security Bureau). Context: Refers to the Dotcom affair. The United States is trying to extradite Kim Dotcom, who has New Zealand residency, for copyright infringement. He was arrested illegally by the police and has since been illegally spied upon by the GCSB (New Zealand Government Communications Security Bureau). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0023052

Description: Shows Finance Minister Bill English and a member of the Maori Council facing off against one another in a clever play on the words 'hooey' and 'hui'. Context: Deputy Prime Minister Bill English present the Government's water rights roadshow. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0022977

Description: Prime Minister John Key is depicted as Pinocchio. His wooden nose, with a tree growing out of it labelled 'Dot Com' and surveillance devices and security personnel in its branches, grows when he states he knew nothing about 'any Dotcom surveillance'. Context: Refers to the Dotcom affair. Dotcom was illegally spied upon by the GCSB (New Zealand Government Communications Security Bureau). Key denied that he knew anything about the surveillance. The cartoon implies this was not so. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0023084

Description: Shows Finance Minister Bill English presenting an enormously fat man who represents 'consultants' and who Bill English refers to as the 'new slimmed down, lean and mean Public Service'. Context: Refers to the public service targets in the 2012 Budget. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0018782

Description: The cartoon shows the enormous Earthquake Minister, Gerry Brownlee, ushering a thin 'tax collector' through a door labelled 'Weight losers'. Brownlee says 'Look at all that flab! Time you had another course in belt-tightening! A newspaper lying on the ground has a headline reading 'Govt will look for new revenue in light of $18B quake blowout.' Context: Finance Minister Bill English today revealed fresh estimates put the cost of the Canterbury earthquakes to the Earthquake Commission (EQC) at $7.1 billion - some $4 billion more than earlier believed. That pushed the projected Crown deficit out to a historically high $18 billion, sparking fears of a possible credit downgrade. (Stuff 30 August 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2015

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0030329

Description: Shows Bill English, Finance Minister, dressed as Elvis Presley and singing "Return to sender...". He holds a letter which states 'Dear Mr English, We really need a pay rise now. Yours sincerely, Low & Middle Income Earners'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).