Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[16 cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times between 26 July and 13 August 2002.]

Date
2002
By
Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)
Reference
H-681-001/016
Description

Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues.

Shows the Beehive spinning, refers to the political spin that happens leading up to an election.

It seems that everyone is polled leading up to the election, including the hereford cow population.

National Party President Michelle Boag spends the weekend putting Bill English's cabinet together, not his political cabinet but rather his coffin.

Maurice Williamson, National Party MP makes Michelle Boag walk the plank of the National Party Pirate ship.

Labour Party leader and Prime Minister, Helen Clark, gets ready to hang Winston Peters.

As the country seeks improved work conditions, leave provisions and longer holidays, the Sri Lankan boat people show a keeness to come to New Zealand to work. Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, seeks to differentiate between asylum seekers and people and abos (aborigines) and people.

Australian rugby players beat up the referee thinking someone called him a refugee.

Helen Clarke (Eve) trys to tempt Peter Dunne (Adam) into eating an apple. Jim Andrton looks on from a tree as a serpent.

Helen Clark paces the floor wondering which of the Parties, the Greens or United Future, are most infuriating.

An Israeli soldier suggests a reporter could say that in the latest Israeli attack on Palestine that "Palestinian arms were uncovered", he holds a persons left arm in his hand.

Helen Clark invites Peter Dunne into her office. He enters with a trojan horse with the sign 'moral right' around its neck.

A photo of the main coalition family and includes Helen Clark, Michael Cullen, Jim Anderton and Peter Dunne.

In drought and famine stricken Zimbabwe a man digs for oil seeing this as a way to get American President George W. Bush to have an interest in getting rid of the current leader, Robert Mugabe.

A rugby union umpire takes the field wearing an American football padded and helmeted uniform. Refers to the assault on a rugby referee by a spectator in South Africa.

Quantity: 16 photocopy/ies.

Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

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16 photocopy/ies, Works of art, Ink drawings, Cartoons (Commentary), Caricatures, A4 horizontal photocopies
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