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Date: 2009

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0012381

Description: Finance Minister, Bill English, leans back comfortably cushioned by wads of banknotes, and raises his glass of wine, as he confidently voices confusion about whether he lives in Wellington or Dipton. Refers to the fact that Bill English used nearly $1000 a week of taxpayer money to finance the mortgage on his family home in Karori while insisting that his real family home was in Dipton. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016354

Description: A caricature of Pansy Wong, former Minister for Ethnic and Women's Affairs, with her face crossed through. The title is 'Wong or right?' and further text reads 'Frontal La-Botany' (frontal lobotomy). A second version has the title 'Government Pansy'. Context; Pansy Wong holds the Botany seat in Auckland. Pansy Wong resigned from her portfolio after it was revealed that on a trip to China in 2008 her husband Sammy Wong was involved in a business deal. An independent investigation of travel claims by Mrs Wong and her husband Sammy was ordered by Speaker Lockwood Smith. The trip was made with a 90 percent taxpayer-funded rebate on their airfares, and it is against the rules to use the allowance for private business. Mrs Wong has apologised and paid back the $474 rebate for the China trip. An Auditor-General's inquiry called for by the Labour opposition is not considered necessary. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017723

Description: PM John Key casually crosses his knee over his other leg as he relaxes in the wedding coach with a startled looking Prince William (Kate is hidden under her veil.) John Key says 'Hope you don't mind Will, but I can't get a 'copter for love nor money, and the traffic is a killer' Context - the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton which took place on Friday 29 April and which John Key attended. Also Prime Minister John Key's office is blaming heavy traffic for booking an air force helicopter to ferry him to and from the V8 races so he could make it home in time to change for a black tie dinner. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016269

Description: National Party Minister of Ethnic Affairs and Women's Affairs is thrown from a plane labeled 'Cabinet' by Prime Minister John Key who says 'Sorry Pansy... this is one flight you won't be taking!' Below a seal at Kaikoura says 'I thought humans were warm-blooded creatures like us... not cold blooded killers!!' Refers to the resignation of Minister of Women's Affairs Pansy Wong from her portfolio after it was revealed that on a trip to China in 2008 her husband Sammy Wong was involved in a business deal. An independent investigation of travel claims by Mrs Wong and her husband Sammy was ordered by Speaker Lockwood. The trip was made with a 90 percent taxpayer-funded rebate on their airfares, and it is against the rules to use the allowance for private business. Mrs Wong has apologised and paid back the $474 rebate for the China trip. An Auditor-General's inquiry called for by the Labour opposition is not considered necessary. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016359

Description: A snail carrying the briefcase of the 'Auditor General' slides up to the 'Parliament Security' desk and says 'I've come to talk to Pansy..' The security guard tells the snail 'I'm sorry, but you've missed her, she's Wong gone...' Context; Pansy Wong resigned from her portfolio after it was revealed that on a trip to China in 2008 her husband Sammy Wong was involved in a business deal. An independent investigation of travel claims by Mrs Wong and her husband Sammy was ordered by Speaker Lockwood Smith. The trip was made with a 90 percent taxpayer-funded rebate on their airfares, and it is against the rules to use the allowance for private business. Mrs Wong has apologised and paid back the $474 rebate for the China trip. An Auditor-General's inquiry called for by the Labour opposition is not considered necessary. 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-0022464

Description: Shows ACT leader and MP John Banks expressing relief at having dodged that one. He has survived walking the plank. Context: refers to the police decision not to prosecute John Banks over his 'anonymous' campaign donations. John Banks received donations from Skycity and also from Mr Dotcom for his 2010 campaign for the Auckland mayoralty. He denied knowing who the donors were thus breaking the law. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017239

Description: A policeman stops a queue of politicians at a checkpoint in Christchurch saying 'Sorry, no politics past this point'. In the queue are Prime Minister John Key, Minister of Finance Bill English carrying a ledger, leader of ACT Rodney Hide wearing his yellow jacket and carrying an axe and a saw and lastly leader of the Labour Party Phil Goff. Context - the Christchurch earthquake of 22 February 2011 and the danger of political point-scoring rather than serious co-operative work to rebuild Christchurch. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017825

Description: A man holds a fire blasting hose attached to a container that represents 'BMW party donations'. The man says 'and here's the seat warmer' as he blasts the backsides of a bunch of fleeing Cabinet ministers. Context - Labour was accused of a "baseless smear" today after one of its MPs said the National Party received a $50,000 donation from BMW within weeks of the government agreeing to buy a new fleet of limos. It was revealed in February that the Government was selling its three-year-old fleet of BMWs and replacing them with new ones. It bought them at a discount price and said it had negotiated a good deal. Heated seats were an 'optional extra'. (NZHerald 11 May 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016270

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister's aide tells him that the report on his travel perk infringements is out and his offending was only minor. The minister wishes he had infringed rather more since he may have got away with it. This refers to the Pansy Wong affair. Minister of Women's Affairs Pansy Wong resigned from her portfolio after it was revealed that on a trip to China in 2008 her husband Sammy Wong was involved in a business deal. An independent investigation of travel claims by Mrs Wong and her husband Sammy was ordered by Speaker Lockwood Smith. The trip was made with a 90 percent taxpayer-funded rebate on their airfares, and it is against the rules to use the allowance for private business. Mrs Wong has apologised and paid back the $474 rebate for the China trip. An Auditor-General's inquiry called for by the Labour opposition is not considered necessary. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016112

Description: PM John Key holds a card that reads 'Two Wongs don't make a right...' and thinks to himself that the 'travel perk' is 'nothing but "travel murk"'. Refers to the news that the PM says MP travel entitlements are to be abolished but MPs elected before 1990 will keep the perk - follows a demand by the public for transparency after several scandals (Pansy Wong most recently) over misuse of the entitlement. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016103

Description: Deputy PM Bill English is on the phone to the PM reporting that he has 'sorted out the Pansy Wong problem'. There is a plank leading from Bill English's desk to the window-sill - clearly Pansy Wong has had to walk it. Refers to news that Pansy Wong, resigned her portfolios as Ethnic and Women's Affairs Minister because she broke the rules when she and her husband went to China and he conducted business while he was there. Pansy Wong is being further investigated. There are two private companies registered at Ms Wong's Botany electorate office in which Mr Wong has interests. Both colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021291

Description: Context: Leader of the ACT Party, John Banks, lied about so-called anonymous donations made to his Auckland mayoralty campaign. In fact they had come from Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016770

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister and his colleague drink to 'another year of not getting caught out!' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016391

Description: Someone holds a magnifying glass over the personal column in the newspaper and finds an advertisement that reads 'Successful international businessman seeks wife as companion for frequent global travel. Must be an MP'. Context - Pansy Wong, resigned her portfolios as Ethnic and Women's Affairs Minister because she broke the rules when she and her husband went to China and he conducted business while he was there. Pansy Wong is being further investigated. There are two private companies registered at Ms Wong's Botany electorate office in which Mr Wong has interests. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012848

Description: The cartoon shows a hand holding a credit card on which are the words 'Invercargill City Council'. Text at the top reads 'Hey big spender' and in large letters is the name 'Richard King' with an extra 'c' inserted into 'Richard' making it read 'Richcard'. In a second version the words 'Spent force' appear at the top of the cartoon and the words 'Ching! Ching!' appear beside the credit card. Refers to the news that seven council bosses have charged more than $10,000 to their ratepayer-funded credit cards in the past financial year - but the top spender won't say where the money went. Invercargill City Council chief executive Richard King claimed privacy reasons for withholding statements for his $25,000 bill. The matter has been referred to the ombudsman. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0016092

Description: In the House surrounded by MPs in their seats, a security guard holds an MP upside down by his ankles and shakes him so that food, cash, wine, an Air NZ plane and dancing girls fall out of his pockets. The Speaker, Lockwood Smith asks 'Would the dis-honourable member care to explain?' Refers to the continuing interest in the spending of taxpayers money as perks by MPs and has resulted in the special travel allowance being scrapped altogether after a demand by the public for transparency. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016302

Description: An artist who represents the 'Wong travel inquiry' dips his brush into a pot of whitewash as he begins a portrait of Pansy Wong who poses draped in cloth and lying on a bed; she holds a piggy bank that represents 'taxpayers'. Refers to the Pansy Wong affair. Minister of Women's Affairs Pansy Wong resigned from her portfolio after it was revealed that on a trip to China in 2008 her husband Sammy Wong was involved in a business deal. An independent investigation of travel claims by Mrs Wong and her husband Sammy was ordered by Speaker Lockwood Smith. The trip was made with a 90 percent taxpayer-funded rebate on their airfares, and it is against the rules to use the allowance for private business. Mrs Wong has apologised and paid back the $474 rebate for the China trip. An Auditor-General's inquiry called for by the Labour opposition is not considered necessary. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016216

Description: In the first of four frames an MP crashes a plane that represents 'travel expenses'. Initially the MP is angry and disconcerted but then he smiles as he walks towards a brand new helicopter that represents a 'wage rise'. Context; the row about the abuse by some MPs which resulted in the travel subsidy for all MPs being withdrawn. The impact of this has been largely neutralised because of a wage rise. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016158

Description: Shows an MP jumping a 'cash-cow' representing MP 'perks' over the moon. Text reads 'Hey diddle diddle, MPs did a fiddle, their cash-cow jumped over the moon; the taxpayers groaned to see such abuse and the rules need to change really soon!' Refers to the news that individual MPs' use of travel perks - such as that used by Act leader Rodney Hide to take his fiance on an overseas holiday - will now be kept secret under new rules. Previously the quarterly release of members and ministers expenses disclosed the amount spent on this perk, and this is how Mr Hide's trips to Europe and Hawaii with his partner were exposed. Immediately following this decision Labour and others made their expenses public which forced National to follow suit and resulted in the travel perk being cancelled altogether. 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-0022461

Description: Shows a couple watching ACT leader and MP John Banks on the TV news. Context: refers to the police decision not to prosecute John Banks over his 'anonymous' campaign donations. John Banks received donations from Skycity and also from Mr Dotcom for his 2010 campaign for the Auckland mayoralty. He denied knowing who the donors were thus breaking the law. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).