Scott, Thomas, 1947-:Twenty-two cartoons published in the Evening Post between 2 and 31 August 1999.

Date
1999
By
Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference
H-587-022/043
Description

Political cartoons.

Jack Elder tries to explain his innocence in awarding a travel grant to a school cultural group containing colleagues' daughters.

NZ First waken from political death in time to campaign for the 1999 General election.

A green lipped muscle reads scary stories from the book 'Tales from the Lab' to his children. Refers to research into cancer cures.

Infant looks suspiciously at mother's nipple and opts for the scrambled egg if there's any chance of the milk having been genetically modified or irradiated.

NZ and Australian Ministers of Health have declared war on depression. A drepressed man says over the breakfast table, when politicians start slashing their wrist in large numbers, then he'll cheer up.

Over a beer two men discuss All Black coach, John Hart's performance.

Police warn the public of an IBM fugitive. Refers to the IBM scoop of public money for a Police computer main-frame that never eventuated.

Politicians avoid the responsibility of the INCIS Police computer fiasco.

Media woman interviews state minister on the tit for tat shooting down of Indian and Pakistan military planes. She suggests there may be a risk of it leading to nuclear war. The minister says they'll cross that bridge when they come to it.

Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley battle it out in the preferred Prime Minister Polls.

Shows the Statue of Liberty with a gun to her head. The caption says, 'tighten up the gun laws America, or the lady gets it...'

Boris Yeltsin appoints his 5th Prime Minister in 17 months. The new Prime Minister looks distincly uneasy as his chair sits on a trap-door.

Shows and elephant (IBM) being sting by a bee (Bill Birch). Refers to the Police INCIS computer fiasco.

Earthquake rocks Turkey, they call for help.

Academics discuss the government's five-step knowledge-based economy plan to restore NZ's stand of living. One says, 'Sounds fabulous, except that you can't take two steps across an abyss...'

New Zealand Black Caps beat the English cricket team.

World athletics is shackled by the weight of the illegal use of performance enhancing drugs.

Mike Moore leaves government politics with a sense of freedom at last.

Possible outcome of mixing human genes into cows.

Petrol Companies hold motorists to ransom with higher petrol prices.

The shadow of violence hangs over voting in East Timor.

Derek Quigley steers the select committee looking into decommissioning NZ's air-strike capability. National are alarmed as they thought Quigley was on their side.

Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s).

Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

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Alternative form available: Photocopies held in Turnbull Library Pictures (red folder).

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Scott, Tom, 1947- :I knew adding a human gene was a mistake...Evening Post, 26 August 1...

Date: 1999

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947-:Twenty-two cartoons published in the Evening Post between 2 and 31 August 1999.

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: J-044-013

Description: A dairy farmer comments to his wife about the demans being made by a cow, standing on her hind legs and reading from a list. Exhibited in 'The Line-Up' exhibition of 36 cartoons by 36 cartoonists curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library auditorium foyer from 5 April 2002 to mark the tenth anniversary of establishment of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive. Extended Title - You must warm your hands before ttouching our udders. For those extra full days we want bras, and the radio must be tuned to easy listening hits of the 60's and 70's. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size laser print.

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Scott, Tom, 1947- :I knew adding a human gene was a mistake...Evening Post, 26 August 1...

Date: 1999

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947-:Twenty-two cartoons published in the Evening Post between 2 and 31 August 1999.

Reference: H-587-040

Description: A dairy farmer comments to his wife about the demans being made by a cow, standing on her hind legs and reading from a list. Exhibited in 'The Line-Up' exhibition of 36 cartoons by 36 cartoonists curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library auditorium foyer from 5 April 2002 to mark the tenth anniversary of establishment of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive. Extended Title - You must warm your hands before ttouching our udders. For those extra full days we want bras, and the radio must be tuned to easy listening hits of the 60's and 70's. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A5 size bromide of ink drawing.