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"Desperate Beehives!" THE SOAP THAT'S SWEEPING THE WHOLE COUNTRY BY SNOWSTORM! Lust. Deceit. Bed-hopping. Polygamy. Extra-martial dalliance. Bad acting and like all soaps, full of nerdy characters... 22 September, 2005
- Date
- 2005
- Reference
- DCDL-0005726
- Description
Shows political leaders cast as actors in a new television soap opera "Desperate Beehives!". The left-wing politicians are standing next to Helen Clark, leader of the Labour Party. While the right-wing politicians are standing next to Don Brash, the leader of the National Party. Winston Peters, the leader of New Zealand First, is making the 'bunny ears' gesture behind the head of Rodney Hide, the leader of ACT. A play on words of the popular television soap 'Desperate Housewives'. Refers to the antics of the various politicians as being similar to that of a characters in a television soap opera.
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- Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons
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"Desperate Beehives!" THE SOAP THAT'S SWEEPING THE WHOLE COUNTRY BY SNOWSTORM! Lust. Deceit. Bed-hopping. Polygamy. Extra-martial dalliance. Bad acting and like all soaps, full of nerdy characters... 22 September, 2005. Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons. Ref: DCDL-0005726. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22894734More information can be found in our terms of use.