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Date: 2004

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

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DX-025-023

Description: Traffic officer selling a discount card for speeding to a startled looking motorist. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Dominion post (Newspaper); Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: DCDL-0018897

Description: In the top frame three men with hoods covering their faces are tied to posts and two soldiers take aim. Text reads 'For impersonating a pilot, for attempting to breach Airport security, you are sentenced to death...' In the lower frame Prime Minister John Key says 'Nah! Relax, just kidding, set them free. You're right! Hoaxes can be such fun...' Context: A stunt by three television "clowns" has fallen flat on its face, landing the trio in court for impersonating a pilot and trying to enter a secure area of Auckland Airport. The proximity to the anniversary of September 11 and the Rugby World Cup were pointed to as particularly poor timing for the prank. (AucklandNow.co.nz 20 September 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Dominion post (Newspaper); Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: DCDL-0018899

Description: A Saudi official suggests to the King of Saudi Arabia that the kingdom might be richer if Saudis paid international prices for petrol but the king thinks this would be impossible because Saudis regard cheap petrol as a birthright. The official points out that 'Fonterra are getting away with it with milk pricing in New Zealand' and so the King tells the official to 'give them a call and find out how they do it.' Context: The public has been complaining about the steep price of milk which is hard in economically challenged times. In March, the Commerce Commission began investigations into whether it should make a formal inquiry into the price of milk, under Part 4 of the Commerce Act, which regulates markets with little competition and little likelihood of an increase in competition. But Fonterra has now welcomed the Commerce Commission's decision not to make an inquiry into the price of milk. The Commission is, however, still investigating claims that dairy giant Fonterra is misusing its market power. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Dominion post (Newspaper); Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: DCDL-0018898

Description: The cartoon shows Mike Tindall, the husband of the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips, wondering how a 'snog with a cute blond in a bar' can be all over YouTube within an hour. Next to him is a man reading a newspaper with a heading that reads 'Supreme Court rules evidence obtained from hidden camera illegal'. He comments 'Because snogging a cute blonde does not constitute a potential criminal or terrorist act, and you weren't being secretly filmed by the police...' Context: Mike Tindall, who is a member of the English rugby team in New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup, was secretly filmed fondling a blond in a bar and the film was put on YouTube. This caused a scandal which resulted in Zara Phillips coming to New Zealand sooner than she had expected to. The man reading the newspaper is referring to the row over the secret filming by the police of suspects during the Urewera raids in 2009. Urgent legislation to allow secret filming on private property by police was rushed through after 13 of the 17 accused from the Urewera raids had their cases thrown out because the secret filming surveillance used in evidence, was deemed illegal. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).