Garrett, David, active 1999-2008

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015593

Description: A colleague cannot believe that the minister has a conviction for obtaining a false passport and advises him to use it to leave the country. Refers to ACT MP David Garrett who has been sacked for past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport apparently as a kind of joke. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0015596

Description: The cartoon shows an open grave with the word 'ACT' on the headstone. Text reads 'Losing the plot? Don't worry they'll find it (but will anyone use the death certificate to change their Identity?) Refers to chaos in the ACT Party because of a public spat between Rodney Hide and Heather Roy whom he has dumped as his deputy in favour of John Boscawen and more importantly the scandal caused by David Garrett's past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport as a kind of joke. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015612

Description: Transport Minister Steven Joyce has admitted two careless-driving offences, including one involving an injury to a motorcyclist. Refers also to the skeletons in the cupboard of ACT Party MP David Garrett. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015599

Description: The minister cannot understand why his colleague is so strongly against the idea of having a 'law and order spokesman with criminal convictions' citing his reasoning as based on the fact that he has had personal experience of the legal system. Refers to the scandal caused by David Garrett's past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport apparently as a kind of joke. David Garrett was Law and Order spokesman for the ACT Party. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0015624

Description: The ship 'Titanact' (wordplay on 'Titanic' and 'ACT') founders as a rat representing ACT MP David Garrett leaps into the sea and ACT leader 'Captain' Rodney Hide also with a rat's tail salutes as he remains standing on deck prepared to go down with the ship. In a second version Captain Rodney Hide lacks a rat's tail. Refers to chaos in the ACT Party because of a public spat between Rodney Hide and Heather Roy whom he has dumped as his deputy in favour of John Boscawen and more importantly the scandal caused by David Garrett's past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport as a kind of joke. However the PM has affirmed that he believes Rodney Hide exercises good judgement, this his critics believe, because of the danger of the coalition slipping. (NZ Herald) Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015681

Description: ACT's John Boscawen hopes that Wellington doesn't lose the chance to film 'The Hobbit'. ACT leader Rodney Hide who walks beside him agrees and says that it would wreck his alternative career options. John Boscawen appears very tall beside the small hobbit-like Rodney Hide. Refers to the struggle the ACT party is having to stay viable after the David Garrett scandal. Refers also to the stand-off between Sir Peter Jackson who is trying to film 'The Hobbit' in New Zealand and the threat by the Australian union MEAA (Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance) who are demanding that the Hobbit production company (Warners owned, 3foot7 Ltd) enter into negotiations for a Union negotiated agreement covering all performers on the film. The situation is complicated but if not resolved the production could go to Eastern Europe. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015600

Description: The minister wonders if he should jump before he is pushed by his leader; his colleague thinks it is more likely he will be strangled. Refers to the scandal caused by David Garrett's past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport as a kind of joke. David Garrett was Law and Order spokesman for the ACT Party. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0013868

Description: The cartoon shows ACT MP David Garrett in the doctor's surgery having his ears checked by the doctor. The doctor is surprised (or maybe not) to see a lamington inside David Garrett's head. Nearby is a newspaper with headlines that read 'ACT MP advocates a $5,000 grant for parents who abuse their children. In fact it was fellow ACT MP John Boscawen who got the lamington treatment as is clear in the following... During an hour-long Unitec debate attended by Mt Albert by-election candidates in May 2009, ACT's John Boscawen, Labour's David Shearer, National's Melissa Lee and Green Party co- leader Russel Norman, the 'People before Profit' candidate Malcolm France smeared a lamington on John Boscawen's head. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015700

Description: Probably a reference to the downfall of ACT MP David Garrett who admitted to forging a passport using the identity of a baby who had died. He was subsequently stood down and then resigned from the party. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015592

Description: A reporter asks the minister if he has any convictions that we don't know about - he means criminal convictions, not firm beliefs - the minister says either way he has none. Refers to ACT MP David Garrett who has been sacked for past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport apparently as a kind of joke. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0015582

Description: Rodney Hide Leader of the ACT Party walks a tightrope made of the words 'hypocrisy', 'ethics' and 'credibility' while at the same time juggling 'Roy' and 'Garrett' balls with one hand and digging deep into an 'expenses' pot with the other. The safety net below represents the 'coalition'. Refers to chaos in the ACT Party because of a public spat between Rodney Hide and Heather Roy whom he has dumped as his deputy in favour of John Boscawen and more importantly the scandal caused by David Garrett's past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport as a kind of joke. However the PM has affirmed that he believes Rodney Hide exercises good judgement, this his critics believe, because of the danger of the coalition slipping. (NZ Herald) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0015590

Description: The title of the cartoon is 'Between a rock and a hard place...' The word 'HYPOCRISY' spelled out in huge hewn rocks throws a shadow that reads 'ACT'. Squeezed between the 'o' and the 'c' in the middle of the 'hypocrisy' rocks are ACT leader Rodney Hide and ACT MP David Garrett who has been sacked for past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport as a kind of joke. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0015657

Description: Rodney Hide the leader of the ACT Party is hanging by an unravelling thread on his jersey from a twig that clings to the edge of a cliff. MP David Garret was clinging to him but has now let go and is plummeting downwards. Rodney Hide is glad to have got rid of him as he now feels safe. Refers to the admission by David Garrett to stealing a dead child's identity in order to forge a passport many years ago as well as to one or two other dodgy past misdemeanours. Many predict the demise of the ACT Party because of this as well as other recent debacles. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0011567

Description: Rodney Hide Leader of ACT defends list MP David Garrett who has been reprimanded for inappropriate behaviour towards women. He is 'excused' because he used work on an oil rig. Refers to this incident and the 'excuse' in the cartoon was the one used in his defence! Published in Scoop.co.nz Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0015610

Description: Leader of the ACT Party Rodney Hide insists that his party is right behind him in spite of his misjudgements and David Garrett's resignation over various former misdemeanours but he is standing close to an abyss and begins to realise that other party members are a bit close, in fact almost pushing. PM John Key has also stated support for Rodney Hide. Labour thinks the party is thoroughly discredited and critics accuse Hide of hypocrisy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0015598

Description: As two people walk away from the pub late at night they pass a man whose face is hidden by the book 'The day of the jackal' that he is reading. The woman comments that 'David Garrett is out late tonight'. Refers to an admission by ACT MP David Garrett that he had stolen a dead baby's identity to obtain a false passport 26 years ago using an idea he got from Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel 'Day of the jackal'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0015752

Description: A prostitute stands on the steps of the 'House of Pleasure' - 'Gentlemen's Retreat' and tells a reporter that her landlord has gone in to politics and that she would like to apologise to all of their patrons for 'being associated with that seedy industry'. Refers to new Act MP Hilary Calvert [who] says she has no criminal skeletons in her closet, but she has admitted that a brothel is run from one of her investment properties. The reference to skeletons in cupboards is to her predecessor David Garrett who admitted to having stolen a dead baby's identity to forge a passport - he was the ACT spokesman for law and order. (NZ Herald - 11 October 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015585

Description: The 'ACT Party' goes 'Glug! Glug! Glug!' down the plughole. Refers to yet another self-inflicted blunder, this time by David Garrett who has confessed to an assault charge dating back to 2002 and, far more damagingly, admitted he had stolen a dead baby's identity to obtain a false passport 26 years ago. Rodney Hide, the party leader, has compounded the shambles by expressing "absolute confidence" in the MP. His credibility and that of the party are in tatters. (NZ Herald editorial 17 September 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015606

Description: Text reads 'The only thing the government needs to do over ACT and Rodney Hide...' Prime Minister John Key dithers indecisively before a basin of water beside which is soap and antiseptic lotion. Refers to chaos in the ACT Party because of a public spat between Rodney Hide and Heather Roy whom he has dumped as his deputy in favour of John Boscawen and more importantly the scandal caused by David Garrett's past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport as a kind of joke. However the PM has affirmed that he believes Rodney Hide exercises good judgement, this his critics believe, because of the danger of the coalition slipping - hence the indecisiveness. (NZ Herald) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015821

Description: The cartoon shows the covers of six 'Mills & Boon Springtime reading new titles'. They are 'The endless honeymoon by John Key', 'Passage to India by Paul Henry' 'The return of the native by Winston Peters', 'The Dispossessed by Chris Carter', 'Save the last dance for me by Rodney Hide' and 'Forbidden pleasures by Hone Harawira'. Refers to the continuing high polling for PM John Key, TVNZ Breakfast show host Paul Henry's racist comments about Governor General Anand Satyanand not looking or sounding like a New Zealander, leader of NZ First Winston Peters return to parliament, former Labour MP Chris Carter's expulsion from the party for a botched coup against leader Phil Goff, haos in the ACT party because of David Garrett's fraud confession and Maori Party's Hone Harawira's renegade behaviour. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).