Disability insurance claimants
'Man caught cutting hedge etc. while on ACC is accused of fraud news'. "NZ's ACC scheme...
Date: 2008
From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0007173
Description: Shows leader of the National Party, John Key, cutting a row of small trees into a shape that spells 'ACC' (Accident Compensation Corporation) as he pronounces that New Zealamd's ACC scheme has nothing to fear from a bit of competition. Text above states that man caught cutting hedges while on ACC is accused of fraud. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Hubbard, James, 1949- :"Things have changed - there was a time when NZ was the social L...
Date: 2013
From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons
By: Setford News Photo Agency
Reference: DCDL-0025193
Description: A man and wife carer for a disabled relative throw a paper labelled 'Legal appeal process' into a toilet bearing the title 'Govt. disabled care policy'. One comments 'Things have changed - There was a time when NZ was the social LABORATORY of the world...' In 2012 the government dropped a legal battle against a Court of Appeal ruling that its policy of not paying family members who were caring for the disabled was unjustified discrimination. In 2013 the Public Health and Disability Amendment Bill proposed a minimum payment for some of those caring for disabled family members. However under the new Bill, people will no longer be able to bring unlawful discrimination complaints about the legislation or any family care policy to the Human Rights Commission. The Bill also states that no proceedings may be commenced or continued in any court. The cartoon puns 'laboratory' with 'lavatory'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).