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Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017583

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister reports that according to the polls they have gone out on a big lead. A critic imagines the size of the lead if the government had policies that worked. Context - But the Horizon poll shows the spike in support the government received from its handling of Christchurch's earthquakes has levelled out. National now has the same level of support as it did at the last election. The Horizon poll has Act on just 3.7 percent support, National on 37.7 percent, United Future on 1.1 percent and the Maori Party on 2.4 percent. Labour is on 23.9 percent, the Green Party on 9.9 percent and New Zealand First on 7.4 percent. When possible coalitions are factored in, the gap between the two potential governments narrows to 3.7 percent. While National has shed the lift in support it received after the Canterbury earthquakes - from 41.2 percent to 37.7 percent, Labour support also fell, from 27 percent in March to 23.9 percent. (Stuff 24 April 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017527

Description: Text above reads 'LISTeria a bacterial infection caused by contamination. Symptoms, fever, vomiting, nausea, confusion, slurring, loss of balance, convulsions'. The cartoon shows Labour Party MP Damien O'Connor thinking aloud as he works up the speech in which ranted about a "gaggle of gays" and "self-serving unionists" having too much control over the party. 'LISTeria' is a (wordplay on 'hysteria') Context - refers to the news that the Labour Party has put at least seven newcomers into winnable slots on its list for this year's election, most of them with a union background. If Labour maintains the 34 per cent vote it received at the last election and keeps its current electorate seats, it will have about 22 list MPs, meaning all in the top 37 of the list get seats in Parliament. Phil Goff says that Damien O'Connor was wrong to blame the list process and the influence of union and rainbow sector groups for skewing the list against him and other rural and provincial-based candidates. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025942

Description: Conversation continues with the aide replying "For once you're thinking the same way as the rest of the country." Refers to widespread negative public opinion in relation to the Government Communications Security Bill, with public protests held throughout the country and the bill expected to have its third reading in parliament. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023969

Description: Two versions of this cartoon depict picture quiz options for 'Knowing your Davids'; a picture of the Michaelangelo statue of David, British prime Minister David Cameron, a faceless man in a suit. Text lists the options including David Shearer, Labour Party Leader, and David Beckham, British Footballer, and warns that one picture is not there. Cartoon refers to scant public knowledge of David Shearer as party leader.. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0024472

Description: The Politician has a glass of champagne to celebrate his department's culture of extravagance. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024672

Description: Inspired by the recent Oscar award ceremony, the cartoonist offers nominations of his own: Hekia Parata, the Minister of Education, as 'La Miserable', cleaning up mess of the Novopay issues, the class size debacle, and the closure of Christchurch schools; the Prime Minister, John Key, in 'Djonki unchained', breaking free from 'moderate' government policies; and 'Life of Pi (in the sky)' with the New Zealand Black Caps cricket team facing England (the Lion) in a lifeboat for their forthcoming test series, with the Black Caps optimistic that at least their opponent is not a tiger (officially representing Bangladesh, who had throughly beaten New Zealand in their last test series). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0031556

Description: Depicts a large Kim Dotcom throwing around cash notes as he springs over a map of New Zealand crowded with people criticising Dotcom. Refers to controversy over Dotcom's new Internet Party. Title from file name Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Fairfax Media Limited (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021993

Description: The Prime Minister, John Key, as the captain of a small steamboat and about to throw a life buoy overboard, tells a nervous kiwi at the tiller 'relax! When you see the benefits , you'll love it!'. The title of the cartoon is 'Asset sales'. The cartoonist's comment is 'Right!' Refers to the anxiety expressed by many members of the public about the proposed partial asset sales, despite John Key's reassurances. Colour and black and white versions are available Quantity: 2 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-0021738

Description: Shows man in suit labelled 'Govt' with his head obscured by the word 'Pop'. Context: Prime Minister John Key strugged off government's falling poll ratings (National Business Review website 11 June 2012) Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021462

Description: Shows the Prime Minister John Key pointing at the sea and saying 'This time last year the media thought I could walk on water...Now they make a song and dance every time I get my cuffs wet...' With the worsening economic situation the extended 'honeymoon' phase with the government was fading in the media, who were becoming more critical of the administration. This was a new experience for John Key. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021465

Description: The Finance Minister, Bill English, dressed as Mother Hubbard, looks at the empty cupboard and tells her dog that there will be a surplus next year 'I promise',. The dog thinks that if there was not a surplus next year, Mother Hubbard will be 'losing a leg'. The Minister of Finance had announced that the annual budget for 2012 would have no extra funding, although Treasury had forecast economic growth in 2013. The New Zealand public would accept austerity for this year, but if the forecasts were wrong and more austerity was required, the government would suffer. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0020512

Description: Labour deputy leader Grant Robertson tells leader David Shearer that there is evidence that the Greens are developing a deadly weapon in attracting Brian Edwards. Context: refers to Brian Edwards, well-known media personality and author who has written in his own blog 'I find myself wondering whether I want to be bothered with the Labour Party any more. Increasingly, it seems to me, the Greens reflect the philosophical and moral values to which I subscribe more accurately than the Labour Party whose philosophical and moral values are now so ill-defined as to be beyond definition'. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020221

Description: The church is overflowing with press gallery people thanking God for the return of Winston. Context: Refers to the return to parliament of Winston Peters, Leader of NZ First, plus seven party members after a successful 2011 election. In 2008 Winston Peters failed to reach the five percent threshold and so did not regain his seat. Winston Peters has a reputation for keeping things interesting. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0027936

Description: Shows the MP for Upper Creek telling Max that the defence forces are needed now as much as ever before due to the mood of the people. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0027933

Description: Shows the MP for Upper Creek telling Max about his experience of being 'egged' during a ministerial visit. The MP told off his security for allowing such a thing to happen and today they have given him a convertible. Refers to John Key being egged during a ministerial visit in Maraenui, Napier. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022860

Description: Nadzeya Ostapchuk, the woman shotput contestant in the London 2012 Olympic Games, claims that she took illegal supplements unknowingly. John Banks says that it was the same for him. He is holding a newspaper headlined 'Mayoral election account'. The cartoonist, as a bird, comments 'We know what we're being fed!'. Ostapchuk was disqualified from her gold medal for taking performance enhancing drugs. She protested her innocence and lack of knowledge that the drugs were illegal. John Banks likewise protested his lack of knowledge of the large donations from Kit Dotcom used to finance his campaign. The public were mainly of the cartoonist's opinion Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023180

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The politician thinks that making a 'gut decision' means having something to eat. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019319

Description: 'The week -' a series of cameos relating to Prime Minister John Key with his head in the sand, a no-fly zone with Colonel Gaddafi holding a gun and surrounded by flies and dead bodies, a camel representing the 'Saudi regime' with a barrel of oil on its back, saying 'but I'm necessary for stability', and a man representing 'media works' who is terribly grateful to a taxpayer who is putting banknotes into a begging bowl. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0019912

Description: Shows leader of New Zealand First, Winston Peters, as a prophet standing on a mountain top. He holds a tablet that reads 'Winston's NZ First commandments' and reads a newspaper with a headline reading 'Scientists closer to finding the "God particle".' And he thinks 'Where do they get off calling me a particle?!' Context: Refers to the search for the Higgs boson (the 'God particle'). CERN scientists say their data from two main experiments using CERN's $10-billion Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border shows with greater certainty where to find a long-sought theoretical particle that would help explain the origins of the universe. Winston Peters is a New Zealand politician with a tendency to stir and a reputation for being somewhat of a maverick. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: MG business - mercantile gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0020055

Description: Prime Minister John Key has leapt from the psychiatrist's couch and now hides fearfully behind a curtain as the spectral figure of the leader of New Zealand First, Winston Peters, looms at a window. The psychiatrist busily takes notes. Context: New Zealand First, having won no seats in 2008 due to its failure to either reach the 5% threshold or win an electorate, made a comeback with 6.6% of the vote entitling them to eight seats. Winston Peters is often regarded as a highly entertaining maverick politician - perhaps a loose cannon with an ability to embarrass the government. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).