Places

Date: 2009

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017618

Description: A large aeroplane from the 'Big Spender Airlines' fleet stands on the tarmac. At the bottom of the carpeted stairs into the plane is a notice that reads 'Royals, MPs and others on public money perks'. Nearby a man reads a paper with the headline 'PM - MPs in high-stress jobs' and beside him is another paper with a headline that reads 'Need to take wives, girlfriends, partners on holiday with them'. Context - Rodney Hide's attack on the use of expenses and perks by politicians and his own use of taxpayers' money to fund his girlfriend's expenses on a recent international trip. Published in Whangarei Report Quantity: 1 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: 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: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014244

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strips, commenting on the foibles of politicians and political issues in New Zealand and published in the Dominion Post. These cartoons tend to reflect the current events of the day without dealing directly with them. Records for the cartoons in this collection have not been enhanced by a full 'scope and contents' as they are essentially self-explanatory and can be searched by key word. They do have subject headings. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012450

Description: A couple of tourists in a car arrive in Dipton and are held up by a flock of sheep. The farmer tells them that the new popularity of Dipton as a tourist destination is due to 'Good ol' Bill!' who has 'put us on the map even though he doesn't live here!' A roadside sign reads 'Welcome to Double Dipton Home of Bill English'. Refers to news that Bill English was claiming nearly $1000 a week to live in his family house in Wellington in spite of fact that the English's family trust owns the $1.2 million house in Karori; he claims his real home is in Dipton. Wordplay with 'Double Dipton' and 'double dipping'. 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: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016108

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister has decided to resign from his cabinet position because of his misuse of taxpayer funded trips - he says it will give him more time to travel. 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 over misuse of the entitlement. 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: 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: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0016906

Description: A member of parliament is annoyed when he hears that MPs are to lose their travel perks but brightens when he realizes that they will get a pay rise to compensate. Context - Just before Christmas 2010, the Remuneration Authority, the independent body that sets politicians' pay, confirmed a 1.4 percent increase for their pay, backdated to July and a one-off $2000 payment to cover the reduced use of MPs' travel subsidy. The rise boosts Prime Minister John Key's salary to $400,500 and a backbencher's to $134,800. A further lump sum is also expected early this year after the travel perk was scrapped. Critics consider this greedy and insensitive at a time when many New Zealanders are struggling. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016053

Description: Speaker of the House, Lockwood Smith, wearing little swimming togs and grinning, leans against the door of the 'Parliamentary Trust' with a box of nails and a hammer beside him. He is the proprietor and has nailed up the door. On the other side of the wall, since this is a facade only, a huge pig representing 'MPs' wallows in a trough that represents 'travel perks'. Text above reads 'MPs travel perks now secret'. Lockwood Smith has come up with a solution to the concerns of ratepayers over the amount of money spent by MPs on perks and overseas trips; they simply won't be told. Refers to the news that individual MPs' use of travel perks - such as what was 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. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016113

Description: A government official responsible for 'MPs travel perks' tells his assistant that he is 'searching for any more Wong doings'. 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. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012043

Description: Shows a huge sow representing 'Mps' travel perks' which is lying down suckling a litter of piglets. The farmer has grabbed one of the piglets that represents an 'ex MP' and is trying to pull it off its teet - the teet is as stretchy as chewing gum. Refers to a row over the expenses and perks of members of parliament, in this case travel expenses. Roger Douglas, an ACT mp used tax-payer assistance to make a family trip to England. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2003

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0001339

Description: 'The politician' cartoon strip. The Minister is pleased that MPs have given themselves new travel perks. His adviser comments that it's a good idea because they will need to keep on themove when the public finds out about them. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016109

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister is outraged at the idea that MP travel perks could be abolished and replaced by a 'measly $9000 pay increase' because, he says, they rip the system off for FAR more than that. Refers to Lockwood Smith's statement that $9,000 is taken out of MP salaries to pay for the travel subsidies - this suggests that MP salaries should be increased by $9,000. There will be a redesigned scheme to allow subsidies for MPs' work related travel. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016098

Description: A small fat plane representing 'MPs travel perks' rests on the tarmac. The title reads 'Final hoarding call? (wordplay 'hoarding' and 'boarding') and further text reads 'The plane is ready for departure... unless... of course it's a Qantas flight, then any number of possibilities could occur'. 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. Refers also to a recent spate of incidents that have led Qantas to suspend its A380 fleet until it is confident of the safety of the superjumbos following the mid-air explosion which forced one of its aircraft to make an emergency landing in Singapore. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016301

Description: A huge pig representing 'MPs' eats from a trough labeled 'Taxpayer funded perks'. Nearby is a newspaper that reads 'Public opinion forces parlt. To ban sow crates' and watching the pig are two men who represent 'public opinion', one of whom comments 'Our next project needs to be getting THEM outa THAT thing!' Refers to the announcement by Agriculture Minister David Carter that pig gestation stalls (sow crates) will be phased out by December 2015. He made the announcement at the release of the Animal Welfare (Pigs) Code of Welfare 2010. Refers also to debate about MP abuse of perks. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016115

Description: PM John Key struggles along a road 'going somewhere' carrying a suitcase labeled 'MPs' travel perks' and with a tag reading 'Pansy Wong' that he feels is 'getting heavier by the day...' 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. 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).