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Date: 2009

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0011615

Description: A rat dressed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit looks back at a fire behind him Someone offscreen asks 'are you sure that's a lone wolf?' Accompanied a story on how the White brotherhood of the States tend to see themselves as freedom fighter heroes and use the term 'Lone wolf' - cartoonist sees them as sneaky little rats - note from cartoonist. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0001954

Description: Shows a stoat, a rat and a cat with a pen and a petition sheet. They are petitioning to have funding cut to the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary on the grounds that it is unfair to predators. Refers to the failure of the Sanctuary to win a bid for funding for the building of a visitor and education centre. Local MP, Marion Hobbs, was angry and disappointed about the failure. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Nelson mail (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025953

Description: Shows David Shearer in a small life-boat rowing away from a larger ship carrying the Labour Party's flag and filled with rats. Shearer asks: "I thought the rats were supposed to leave the ship?" Prime Minister John Key is shown fishing on a desert island. Refers to the resignation of Labour leader, David Shearer, on 22 August 2013, saying he did not think he had the support of his caucus. The cartoonist refers to the perception that Shearer was 'too nice' for politics. The cartoonist may also refer to John Key's political isolation, with National facing a decreasing number of political allies with whom to form a coalition. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0024417

Description: Shows two rats reading a newspaper, and lamenting that cats are no longer to blame for the destruction of native bush and wildlife in New Zealand, despite a well publicised campaign by businessman Gareth Morgan in January 2013 to rid New Zealand of cats. Commentary from the cartoonist: 'One minute we're being encouraged to kill stray cats to save the bush, and the next minute we're told cats are fine but it's rats which are doing all the damage.' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0024407

Description: Shows a kiwi bird leaning against a tree labelled 'DOC' and sleeping on top of an egg labelled, 'Clean green NZ.' A rat labelled, 'Govt.' approaches the egg, salivating. Refers to the loss of 140 jobs at the Department of Conservation, announced in March 2013. 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-0024846

Description: Shows two rats discussing Gareth Morgan, a businessman and environmentalist who has called for the eradication of all predators, including cats, from Stewart Island. The rats explain that MMP is a more serious pest than they are. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0025431

Description: Shows a ship labelled 'United Future' and featuring Peter Dunne's haircut sinking head first, while some rats jump ship. Refers to the seeming political demise of United Future leader Peter Dunne, whose fortunes were rapidly declining: he has lost his ministerial salary, his Crown limo and his party's registration and has been stripped of his status as a leader in Parliament at a cost of more than $100,000. It was also ruled that United Future no longer qualified for taxpayer party funding and that Mr Dunne would be treated as an independent MP in Parliament. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2015

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

Reference: DCDL-0030238

Description: Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'The Department of Conservation has just completed the country's largest pest control management programme at a cost of $10 mil and the dropping of over 800 tonnes of 1080'. Multiple versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0019437

Description: Text reads 'News: The Aratere's post Singapore problems included a rat infestation - with one even sighted in the ship's bar.' The cartoon shows a large rat sitting at a table chewing away on a newspaper. A patron says indignantly 'He says he's not finished with the Shipping Gazette yet!' Context: KiwiRail chief executive Jim Quinn confirmed that, among other problems with the ship, rats had been found after it left Sembawang Shipyards in Singapore. 'There was rats in the engine room, in the ceiling, all over the place... There was even a rat in the ship's bar,' a crew member said. (Dominion Post: 2 November 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0028769

Description: Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'With their numbers ballooning to 15 million in recent months, rats are doing very well under National. Not just green-voters, but presumably everything in the New Zealand ecosystem, will welcome Nick Smith's timely extermination programme.' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0028820

Description: Shows two rats ('The Gangs') who are being rained down on by white pellets (1080). Refers to news that the largest ever government pest eradication programme to be dropped on plague of rats. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0028777

Description: Shows a large rat who thinks "Politicians killing pests... what about professional courtesy?". Refers to Government plans for NZ's largest pest eradication programme. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).