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Slane, Christopher, 1957- :'They go for years between W.O.F. checks'. 1 February 2013
Date: 2013
From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly
By: Listener (Periodical)
Reference: DCDL-0023960
Description: Depicts Prime Minister John Key, accompanied by Economic Development minister Steven Joyce and Finance minister Bill English driving a dilapidated National Party car watched by two traffic officers who comment that they go for years between warrent of fitness checks. By July 2014 cars registered after 1 Jan 2000 will need annual warrant of fitness checks instead of six monthly ones. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Slane, Christopher, 1957- :[Len Brown scrum]. 3 May 2013
Date: 2013
From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly
By: Listener (Periodical)
Reference: DCDL-0024760
Description: The Mayor of Auckland, Len Brown, claiming that he has 'another plan', is held at the bottom of a ruck consisting of Rodney Hide, Gerry Brownlee, Bill English and John Key, who urges them to 'hold him down, for Chrissake!'. In April 2013 the draft Unitary Plan for Auckland City was announced by the government, specifically the Minister of Local Government, Gerry Brownlee, the Minister of Finance, Bill English and Rodney Hide, the architect of the Auckland City reorganisation, over the objections of the mayor and many citizens. Auckland Unitary Plan was a town planning document for the enlarged Auckland City, released in April 2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Slane, Christopher, 1957- :[Deficit canoe]. 24 May 2013
Date: 2013
From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly
By: Listener (Periodical)
Reference: DCDL-0025070
Description: Cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key and Minister of Finance, Bill English, in a canoe underwater. English is paddling a sunken canoe labelled NZ. The word deficit appears in the water below the canoe. Key is pulling on English, trying to bring the canoe up to the surface. English says, "We're on course to be out of this by 2016." Refers to comments by English that the government will not return to surplus before 2016. Key has stated that he'd like to see a government surplus sooner than that. (Radio New Zealand, 10 May 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Slane, Christopher, 1957- :'Pruning is really helping growth up here.' 9 March 2012
Date: 2012
From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly
By: Listener (Periodical)
Reference: DCDL-0020538
Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key and Finance Minister Bill English hacking branches off a tree. The branches represent 'hospitals', 'nurses', 'police', 'public service' and 'MFAT'. Context: refers to the government's determination to cap expenditure in the state services by restricting budgets and downsizing departments and sectors. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Slane, Christopher, 1957- :'Is it always like this in the second term?'. 24 February 2012
Date: 2012
From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly
By: Listener (Periodical)
Reference: DCDL-0020353
Description: Prime Minister John Key and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Bill English, struggle together through a storm of contentious policies. The government is battling against opposition to contentious policies like the Crafar Farm sale to a Chinese consortium, criticism about New Zealand's broadband by Stephen Fry, state house evictions, health cuts, etc. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Slane, Christopher, 1957- :'I'm just popping out to get some jobs...'. 1 September 2012
Date: 2012
From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly
By: Listener (Periodical)
Reference: DCDL-0022796
Description: Shows the Minister for Social Development, Paula Bennett, being besieged by hungry children. Finance Minister Bill English who appears to be carrying a bottle of wine, is just 'popping out to get some jobs. Context: The Child Poverty Report has recently been released. Children are not being fed properly and many parents are unemployed. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Slane, Christopher, 1957-:Will work for peanuts. 15 April 2011
Date: 2011
From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly
By: Listener (Periodical)
Reference: DCDL-0017558
Description: The cartoon shows Finance Minister Bill English as a homeless man; he has a trolley for his few belongings and Holds up a sign that reads 'Will work for peanuts'. Context - Bill English has said that low wages in New Zealand help it compete with neighbouring Australia. Bill English said that 'New Zealand wages are 30 per cent below Australia's giving us an 'advantage'. Council of Trade Unions secretary Peter Conway says "the vision suggested by this Government is that we should compete with Australia using our low wages. That will only result in more and more New Zealand workers going to Australia. It is a barren vision." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Slane, Christopher, 1957- :Sweeney Bill - the demon finance minister of Fleece Street. ...
Date: 2011
From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly
By: Listener (Periodical)
Reference: DCDL-0017899
Description: Text at the top reads 'Sweeney Bill, the Demon Finance Minister of Fleece Street'. Below is Finance Minister, Bill English, who holds the 'Budget' in one hand and a large chopper that represents 'Cuts' in the other. He says 'At last my arm is complete!' Context - 'Sweeney Todd' was a demon barber of Fleet Street, who murdered his clients. The cartoon refers to the 2011 May budget which is cutting KiwiSaver, Working for Families, and student loans and the public sector and a statement about 'no new spending' in order to try to get the deficit down. Original cartoon held at A-474-046 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Slane, Christopher, 1957-:"Never fear, matey. We've got plenty of buckets for bailing o...
Date: 2011
From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly
By: Listener (Periodical)
Reference: DCDL-0017735
Description: In the stern of a rapidly sinking boat sits a large grinning businessman with a glass of champagne in one hand and a bottle in the other. PM John Key flings buckets of money overboard and says 'Never fear, matey. We've got plenty of buckets for bailing you out'. In the prow of the boat sits Minister of Finance Bill English surrounded by empty buckets and gloomily watching as his hopes for any kind of sweetening in the May budget recede even further. The fourth man in the boat is ? who is happily tipping money into the sea also. Context - the bail-out of AMI. it appears the Crown will underwrite any loss from the failure of a large enterprise. BNZ (twice), Air New Zealand, finance firms, leaky homes, AMI. Sir Roger Douglas called for the AMI support package to be conditional on the Government declaring that this will be the final such act of largesse. But if the Government were to make such a declaration it would have the credibility of a chronic drunk swearing off the booze. Repeated bailouts have created an environment where poor decisions are not punished but rewarded. The AMI board and management need to account for their performance, and prudent insurers should benefit from an influx of customers. This is what is meant to happen in a capitalist economy. (Damien Grant - AMI bail out rewards poor business practice in NZ Herald 24 April 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).