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Date: 2014

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0029703

Description: Shows 'GRACINDA' a morph of Grant Robertson and Jacinda Ardern - 'A new terror stalks the land'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0029734

Description: Cartoon shows three trick-o-treaters at Prime Minister John Key's front door. One is dressed as a homeless zombie, who asks for affordable housing. Behind him, a woman dressed as a witch holds up a tea cup and says, "Tea breaks!". Behind her, a man is dressed as a jobless ghost who say, "Real jobs!" The Prime Minister reels back in horror, and spills the bowl of candy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0029650

Description: Shows the Labour Party leadership contest as the 'Hunger Games'. David Cunliffe is running away from a bees nest which is dropping to the ground. Cunliffe calls out to his wife "Quick get the smoke machine, Karen!". The nest has been kicked off a tree branch by David Shearer. In the same tree is Andrew Little is about to drop a bomb. Grant Robertson is about to shot an arrow. David Parker hides in the hollow of a log with a knife. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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-0026225

Description: Shows David Cunliffe, the new leader of the Labour Party, as King Arthur removing Excalibur the sword in the stone 'Labour Leadership'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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-0026224

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key as the rancher of 'Kiwi Asset Ranch' in which he has let loose two horses representing Meridan and MRP (Mighty River Power) and told them to find their own investors. In the background are other cowboys who are shooting guns and yelling "Bolt the gate - we have a referendum!". Refers to the Asset sales referendum. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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-0024107

Description: The prime minister, John Key, and the management of Skycity Casino agree that the Convention Centre deal benefits them both. The only downside will be for problem gamblers. In 2013 the government granted Skycity Casino the tender to provide a new convention centre in Auckland. Part of the deal was an increase in the number of gaming facilities for the Casino, at a time when problem gambling, particularly among the poor, was an issue. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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-0024008

Description: Shows Education Minister Hekia Parata, dressed as a school girl with a gas can in her hand, running from a burning building labelled, Education Department. Smoke and flames labelled, 'Novopay' rise from the building, as Parata says, 'I didn't do it.' Refers to ongoing controversy over the Novopay school payroll system, implemented in August 2012, with 96% of New Zealand schools experiencing problems with the payroll system as of February 2013. Parata was one of the ministers who allowed the system to go forward, despite warnings that there were 147 known software defects which could create payroll errors going forward. There have been calls for Parata to resign as a result of the debacle. (Stuff.co.nz, 1, 6, 8 Feb 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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-0024007

Description: Shows a kiwi bird soaring up in the sky labelled, 'kiwi dollar'. The kiwi carries a group of exporters who are being choked with ropes around their necks. Refers to the strong kiwi dollar, which is reducing the profits made by exporters selling kiwi goods overseas. Economists are speculating that a high kiwi dollar may be the new norm, rather than a passing phase. (New Zealand Herald, 6 February 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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-0024057

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key dressed as a pirate, standing on rocks along side the sea, and conjuring a ghost pirate ship of 'boat people'. The figures on the ship call out, 'Job! Job!' and the words, 'fear of immigrants' appears in the sky. Refers to a controversial plan for New Zealand to resettle 150 of Australia's refugees and asylum seekers (commonly referred to as 'boat people') each year. (One News, 9 Feb 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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).

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-0024139

Description: Shows members of the National Party walking across a precarious, crumbling stone path over a fiery abyss with a monster labelled, 'market forces' towards a cave labelled, 'coal mines of failure'. Prime Minister John Key asks Gerry Brownlee, former energy minister if he's sure this is the safest route. Kate Wilkinson, former minister of labour, and an unknown fourth person are following. Refers to the financial troubles of Solid Energy, the largest coal mining company in New Zealand and a state owned asset, as well as the Pike River Mine accident in 2010, which resulted in the deaths of 29 miners. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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-0024323

Description: Shows two men in business suits parking in a private parking lot, giving each other a high five by their cars. Meanwhile, a boy rides a bicycle with an enormous load on his back labelled, 'paper boy tax'. Refers to a highly unpopular proposal to tax employer-provided parking spaces, which did not go forward. The Paper boy tax states that school-aged children would no longer get a tax refund if they earned wages for part-time work. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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-0024499

Description: Shows two workers at the Earthquake Commission. A man sits at his computer, which has a bomb beneath it labelled, 'EQC accidental data release.' He tells a woman standing beside him, 'Don't worry, that's been ticking away happily for ages'. Refers to an information leak at the EQC, where a contractor mistakenly received an email with confidential details of 98,000 claims following the Canterbury Earthquakes. (Stuff.co.nz, 26 Mar 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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-0024201

Description: The Prime Minister is a playing piece on a boardgame 'Asset Monopoly', with 'Chance' cards and monopoly money, who jumps from one square to the next. Two other pieces, 'Mum' and 'Dad', are on the board but inactive. With the playing of the 'Get out of the Supreme Court Free' card, the asset sale programme was begun. However the Government had landed on 'Chance' square, whose relevant card reads 'Coal price slumps. Bailout needed'. Hence the cry of 'Oops!' Solid Energy, a State Owned Enterprise and one that was to be involved in partial privatisation, suffered badly from the drop in international coal prices and required a large bail-out of public funds. This slowed down the initial enthusiasm for the asset sales. The other two pieces refer to the hypothetical 'Mum and Dad' investors who were supposed to buy shares in the assets released for sale. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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-0024619

Description: Shows Minister for the Environment, Nick Smith, and Minister of Energy and Resources, Simon Bridges, admiring the view through a large picture frame. They are rebranding the environment as 'development' and see a picture of a 'beautiful' future with off-shore oil rigs. Wider context refers to an increase in activity around deep-sea oil exploration. Specific recent context may include an amendment to the Crown Minerals Bill introduced by Bridges, which will allow the Defence Force to arrest and detain anti-mining protesters outside of New Zealand's 12-mile territorial limit. Context may also include Tag Oil beginning oil and gas exploration near Dannevirke and debates around the use of fracking and drilling for oil off the Wellington coast. The picture frame may refer to similar ones used by the Auckland Regional Council to draw attention to natural masterpieces. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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).

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-0024703

Description: Depicts Prime Minister John Key holding on to an electric fence and electrocuting himself. The fence is charged by a battery labelled 'Power Share Float'. An electricity pylon is on a hill behind. Labour Party Leader David Shearer and Green Party Leader Russell Norman stand beside Key, carrying wire clippers, ready to cut the fence. Shearer advises Key "You gotta learn when to let go John". Refers to joint announcement by Labour and Green of a power policy to create a single state controlled buyer for electricity which will reduce bills for domestic consumers. Key intends to go ahead with the floating of Mighty River Power shares despite possible effect on shares value from uncertainity raised by possible changes to energy sector regulatory environment (NZ Herald 23 April 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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-0025002

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key standing on a red carpet in front of the entrance to 'National's Casino Economy Conventions', surrounded by glitzy Las Vegas-style signs: 'Revisit the '80s', 'No social cost', '1000s of jobs', 'Buy shares', 'Mining', 'No environmental impact', and 'Last night: Aaron Gilmore in "Utu"'. Refers to a 35 year deal signed between the government and SkyCity Entertainment group. In return for operating a $400 million convention centre in Auckland, SkyCity will receive an exclusive casino licence. Aaron Gilmore is a former list MP for the National Party who resigned in May 2013, and vowed 'utu' or revenge on his enemies. (18 May 2013, New Zealand Herald) Analogue version at A-474-007. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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).

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-0025331

Description: Depicts Prime Minister John Key standing on a clifftop as people walk off the edge. Beside him is torn down barriers and warning signs. Key says they have "removed barriers to manufacturing taking off". Refers to Key denying claims there is a crisis in the manufacturing sector in New Zealand. The Labour Party, Green Party, New Zealand First and Mana Party have held their own inquiry into manufacturing after the government refused to launch one (TV3 18 June 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).