"Keep walkin' Phil! It's better for the environment!"/ New gang in Wanganui?... 20 September 2009

In the first cartoon Prime Minister, John Key, and Co-leader of the Maori Party, Pita Sharples, drive past leader of the Labour Party, Phil Goff, enveloping him in clouds of noxious fumes from their battered old four-wheel drive. A label stuck to the back of the vehicle reads 'Emissions deal' and Pita Sharples leans out of the window and congratulates Phil Goff on walking because it is 'better for the environment'. Refers to the deal about managing emissions that was stitched up between the National government and the Maori Party without the Labour Party. In the lower frame a second cartoon shows three gang members with 'H' on their patches marching past a signpost that points to 'Whanganui, Whaikato, Whaitomo, Whellington, Whestland and Mt Chook'. Refers to the row about putting the 'H' into the name 'Wanganui' and also to the regulation that forbids the wearing of gang patches in the city of Wanganui. The Mayor of Wanganui, Michael Laws, wants the status quo maintained in the spelling of 'Wanganui' and he is responsible for the gand patch ban.

Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).