Chicago school of economics

Date: 1989

By: White, Cecil John, 1900-1986; Finey, George Edmond, 1895-1987; Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963; Ball, Murray Hone, 1939-2017; Moir, Alan, 1947-; Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; New Zealand. Ministry of External Relations and Trade; Grant, Ian Fraser, 1940-; Brockie, Robert Ellison (Dr), 1932-; Glover, Thomas Ellis, 1891?-1938

Reference: A-370-001/049

Description: Forty nine cartoons by Unk White, George Finey, Peter Bromhead, David Low, Murray Ball, Alan Moir, Tom Scott, Tom Glover and Bob Brockie for the Drawing the Line exhibition for the Ministry of External Relations and Trade, 1989. 'Drawing the Line: Cartoons across the Tasman' was an exhibition of cartoons by New Zealand cartoonists about Australian issues and the relationship between New Zealand and Australia, curated by Ian F. Grant for the New Zealand Ministry of External Relations and Trade. The exhibition toured Australian cities in 1989. Quantity: 49 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 49 laser prints on card, sizes vary.

Date: 1999

By: Listener (Periodical); Metro (Periodical); National Business Review Ltd; City Voice (Newspaper); Hodgson, Trace, 1958-; Qantas Airways Ltd

Reference: H-624-001/012

Description: Cartoons published in the Listener, Metro, National Business Review and City Voice, 1999, and entered in the 1999 Qantas Media Awards. Quantity: 12 Laser copies. Physical Description: Laser copies, some colour, A4 size.

Date: 1985

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[10 original cartoons. 1982-92].

Reference: C-125-069

Description: The Prime Minister, David Lange, addressing the Labour Party conference. His remarks are greeted with bemusement by his audience. Refers to the belief that the Labour Government has moved strongly to the right and towards monetarism Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 420 x 591 mm

Date: 1987

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[10 original cartoons. 1982-92].

Reference: C-125-071

Description: Roger Douglas, dressed as a monk in a scriptorium, writing 'Roger's thesaurus' on a large sheet in Gothic lettering. Refers to the development of 'Rogernomics', the new monetarist policies of the Labour Government Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 405 x 526 mm

Date: 1987

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-727

Description: Shows two men dressed in frog-suits swinging through the windows of an office on ropes, smashing the glass as they go. They each carry a briefcase labelled 'IR' (Inland Revenue) and shout that they are the Anti-Tax Evaders Squad and that the two terrified-looking businessmen in the room should surrender their ledgers. One of the businessmen is in the act of either putting ledgers into or taking them out of a safe in the wall. Leaning against a wall is a large graph plotting a steep downward trend for 1987. Refers to the financial woes of Rogernomics at this time. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon on paper, 320 x 480 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1987

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-136-725

Description: Shows Finance Minister Roger Douglas wearing a jersey with the words '(organiser) Douglas Economic Marathon' on it. Two runners with the letters 'N' on the t'shirt of one and 'Z' on that of the other, struggle up a hill to a destination called 'Recovery'. The male runner says to the female "Sounds like a no-win situation!" Refers to the economic reform often called 'Rogernomics' which was a move towards policies that included cutting agricultural subsidies and trade barriers, privatising public assets and the control of inflation through measures rooted in monetarism, and were regarded in some quarters of Douglas's New Zealand Labour Party as a betrayal of traditional Labour ideals. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon on paper, 322 x 485 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1986

Reference: A-435-051

Description: The cartoon shows Roger Douglas, Minister of Finance, rising out of the jaws of a huge shark and giving the fingers. Two men fishing in a boat nearby fall over backwards with shock. The little kiwi in the lower right corner says 'He [sic, here] comes the big bite'. At this stage Roger Douglas was starting to put in place the economic reforms that became known as 'Rogernomics'. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 1 newspaper clipping, 190 x 260 mm

Date: 1986

By: Brockie, Robert Ellison (Dr), 1932-; Nisbet, Ivy, active 1999

Reference: B-154-041

Description: Shows Jim Bolger and Robert Muldoon as an Edwardian boy and girl, looking on as members of the Labour Government Cabinet bounce on a large trampoline labelled Monetarism. The bouncers include: Mike Moore, Roger Douglas, David Lange, David Caygill, and one other. Geoffrey Palmer looks on from the left foreground. Verso note indicates that this cartoon was published in the National Business Review on 5 September 1986. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: Brockie; Verso - centre - NBR / Sept 5. 1986 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on sheet, 292 x 416 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs I Nisbet in 1999.

Date: 1988

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-865

Description: Text informs about PM David Lange's artery operation and then discusses another delicate operation that is being performed. In the first of three cameos a group of politicians crowd around a table and comment '"Big cut here", "Restrict here", "Another cut here", "Bypass that", "Releave prssure here" etc. In the second cameo Finance Minister Roger Douglas holds up the budget which is to be announced on July 28 and in the third cameo a couple of taxpayers are suspicious and unhappy about what they think the budget will tell them. Refers to the 1988 budget and the beginning of the introduction of Roger Douglas's monetary reforms. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone on paper, 320 x 485 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1988

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-768

Description: Shows Prime Minister, David Lange and Finance Minister, Roger Douglas standing smugly at 'Lange's Gas Station', watching as a truck named 'NZ' which they have just filled with gas, goes bumping along the road, the people in the truck very unhappy at its progress. Outside the gas station is a sign with the words 'Go with Rogernomics the balanced economy aider' written on it. Refers to Rogernomics, the monetarist economic reforms, introduced by Roger Douglas in David Lange's 1987 government. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon on thin card, 320 x 480 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1988

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-859

Description: A bit of newsprint that was glued to the original (and now appears in the photocopy) reads, 'The government must take its foot off the brake and allow some stimulation of the economy, the secretary-general of the Manufacturers Federation, Wally Gardner, said today.' A car with four flat tires and a numberplate reading 'NZ 88' seems to have come to a stop; the group of passengers are puzzled about what the driver, Finance Minister, Roger Douglas, is doing and wonder if they are on the right road. Refers to the implementation by Roger Douglas of his neoliberal economic policies "Rogernomics", that involved monetarist measures to control inflation, the slashing of subsidies and trade tariffs, and the privatisation of public assets. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 photocopy Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1988

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-765

Description: In two frames shows the commission set up to organise the 1990 celebration of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi having a meeting. Jack Marshall? reads out a suggestion that they organise a fleet of ships and Michael Bassett imagines the fleet is intended to recall the early settlers. Jack Marshall replies that the fleet is to bring New Zealanders who have relocated to Australia since 1984 back to New Zealand for the celebrations. Refers to the beginning of the period of economic reform called 'Rogernomics', a market-driven economy that caused many New Zealanders to flee to Australia. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on thin card, 320 x 480 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1988

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-773

Description: Shows Finance Minister, Roger Douglas holding a garage sale in which the New Zealand owners stand looking dismayed as their car is sold. Roger Douglas leans against the car while a man with a tshirt on which are the words 'Brit gas' walks off with a suitcase labelled 'petro'. Signs say that everything must go, that credit cards are not allowed as it is a 'cash only' sale and that the 'garage would suit a handyman'. The car has had 'only 2 owners (Nat and Lab' and its numberplate reads 'NZ 1988'. Refers to the selling of state assets as part of the Rogernomics economic reforms. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon on paper, 322 x 483 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1988

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-774

Description: Shows Finance Minister, Roger Douglas, falling over backwards with shock, as he arrives at his office to find two workmen fixing a sign to it saying 'under new management'. One of the workmen says to the other that this 'must be another decision the P.M. didn't tell him about'. Refers to David Lange's beginning to relieve Roger Douglas of his ministerial positions because of the unpopularity of his economic reforms. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon on paper, 322 x 483 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1999

By: Metro (Periodical); Listener (Periodical); Slane, Christopher, 1957-; Qantas Airways Ltd

Reference: H-626-001/008

Description: Cartoon photocopies published in the Listener and Metro, 1999, and entered in the 1999 Qantas Media Awards. Quantity: 8 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, A4 size.

Date: 1988

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-775

Description: Shows Prime Minister, David Lange, holding a newspaper that has a headline that reads 'English test bowler fined for bad language'. He says to Roger Douglas, the Finance Minister, that he has had a bright idea for raking in millions and that is having a swear tax which anyone overheard swearing at their decisions will be made to pay. Refers to the unpopularity of the economic reforms of Rogernomics. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon on paper, 322 x 483 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1988

From: Brockie, Bob :[One hundred and three cartoon photocopies. Dated from 1984 to 1991].

Reference: H-548-072

Description: Shows Roger Douglas holding up one end of a banner "Monetarism, Lange - Douglas", while the other end trails on the ground. This implies that David Lange is not longer supporting the monetarism principle. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopy

Date: 1988

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-769

Description: Shows Prime Minister, David Lange and Finance Minister, Roger Douglas kicking alarge 'tax package' around in case they need to tidy it up a bit. Refers to the Rogernomics economic reforms. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon on thin card, 320 x 480 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 2011

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: New Zealand Press Association

Reference: DCDL-0017862

Description: The new ACT leader, Don Brash, with a huge Donald Trump-style wig, stands in front of a group of people in silhouette who represent 'Assets', 'welfare' and 'health' and says 'I'm the Donald, and yer all fired!!!' An ACT Party politician in the background tells an astonished man 'We've trumped the other parties with our makeover!' Context - Former ACT leader Rodney Hide has just been ousted in a bloodless coup from the role by Don Brash who has taken over the leadership of the party. Roger Douglas and Don Brash will create a far right party which is likely to be characterised by a 'Rogernomics' style of sale of state assets, market-led restructuring and deregulation and the control of inflation through tight monetary policy, accompanied by a floating exchange rate and reductions in the fiscal deficit. Also talk-show host and real estate magnate, Donald Trump, has been in the news because he was threatening to stand as a presidential candidate for the Republicans. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: MG business - mercantile gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0017893

Description: The cartoon shows Prime Minister, John Key, and the new leader of ACT, Don Brash, as cowboys sitting astride their mounts and wearing masks. They are both attempting to play the part of the Lone Ranger but John Key suggests that one of them should play the part of Tonto, his sidekick. Context - Don Brash has overthrown Rodney Hide from his leadership of the ACT Party and has taken the role himself. Context - In his letter of resignation from the National Party, Don Brash took the opportunity to let John Key know that he disagrees with interest-free student loans, the Working For Families marginal tax rate, and the "exorbitant cost" of KiwiSaver subsidies. The cartoon suggests that Don Brash intends ACT to have considerable influence over government policy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).