New Zealand. Parliament. Foreshore and Seabed Bill 2004

Date: 2005

From: New Zealand National Party: Political pamphlets, fliers, and election propaganda

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-NATIONAL-2005-Postcards-01

Description: Postcard issued as part of the National Party's 2005 election campaign shows head and shoulders portrait of Helen Clark (Labour Party leader under the word "Iwi") and Don Brash (National Party leader under the word "Kiwi"). The verso quotes Don Brash's words "The Treaty of Waitangi should not be used as the basis for giving greater civil, political or democratic right to any particular ethnic group". The Party intended to stop a drift to racial separatism by ensuring one law for all, completing Treaty settlements by 2010, abolishing Maori seats in Parliament, returning the seabed and foreshore to Crown ownership, removing divisive "Principles of the treaty" from law. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of postcard, 101 x 150 mm.

Date: 2004

From: Winter, Mark 1958- :[Cartoons published in the Southland Times between 23 August 2004 and 15 January 2005]

Reference: A-370-081

Description: A close-up view of The Beehive (Parliament) with word the single word 'foreshore' emerging from it. Refers to Government support for the Foreshore and Seabed Act Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and Chinese white on A4 size paper.

Date: 2005

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[14 cartoons published in the Dominion Post ca 2002-2003.]

Reference: H-734-220

Description: The cartoon shows Prime Minister, Helen Clark, seated on a throne on the beach. She wears royal regalia, including a crown, and holds an orb. She has her right hand stretched out and is commanding a huge wave to retreat. The wave symbolises Maori expectations about seabed and foreshore. Refers to the political complexities behind the foreshore and sea bed debate and Helen Clark's desire that the issue disappear. Digital version exists at DCDL-0025510 Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 1 A4 photocopy

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014588

Description: The cartoon shows PM John Key as a goalie in a football match. He has just missed blocking the ball, which represents 'Maori claims' from going into the goal, which represents 'Foreshore Plan'. Refers to the agreement reached by the government and the Maori Party to repeal the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act. The main plank in the Maori Party's election manifesto was to get the act repealed. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014596

Description: The cartoon shows a shoreline with crabs and shells. Text in the centre of the image reads 'The Foreshore and Seabed Act' but the word 'Foreshore' is crossed out and the words 'not sure' are intended to replace it; also 'sea' in 'seabed' is crossed out to be replaced by the words 'Now you see it now you don't'. A second version has the text 'The not sure and now-you-see-bed-now-you-don't Act' (wordplay on 'see but' and 'seabed'). Refers to the subtlety of the distinction between the repealed 2004 Act and the probable wording of the new act. The new act will make the foreshore and seabed neither Crown nor Maori land, but a public place which will belong to neither but will give Maori certain rights. Existing Maori and Pakeha private titles will continue unaffected as will public access and existing navigation and fishing rights. There have been additions, including the two-track regime for seeking customary rights and title and the establishment of universal recognition orders. Customary title will cover development rights, and the right to veto development by others. Some mineral rights will be conferred. The universal recognition orders will recognise the links an iwi has with the foreshore and seabed, but will not confer any rights. Maori Party co-leaders Pita Sharples and Tariana Turia said they had fulfilled a long-standing promise to repeal the Foreshore and Seabed Act, which did not permit iwi to seek customary title through the courts. (Information from Stuff) Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014585

Description: In two frames Prime Minister John Key and Co-leader of the Maori Party Pita Sharples help each other out by ensuring that the one (John Key) is accused by Maori Party MP Hone Harawira of pandering to red necks and the other (Pita Sharples) is accused of robbing Pakeha. As the two work out a Foreshore and Seabed solution that will be agreeable to both parties and save face for both they recognise that each will retain faith with their people by respectively being accused of 'pandering to red-necks' (rather than 'bending over backwards to please Maori) and 'robbing Pakeha' rather than bending over backwards to please the government. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014577

Description: The cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key, and Co-leaders of the Maori Party, Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples, standing with their backs to the viewer on a large launch. They are in the process of committing a coffin representing the '2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act' to the deep. Refers to the decision to repeal the 2004 Act by the government, after consultation with the Maori Party, in favour of a new Bill that will grant ownership of the foreshore and seabed to neither the crown nor Maori but will make it 'public space' (as yet there is no agreement about what it should be called) which means it belongs to no-one but will allow Maori a controlling interest in the development of the land. Existing Maori and Pakeha private titles would continue unaffected as would public access and existing navigation and fishing rights. There have been additions, including the two-track regime for seeking customary rights and title and the establishment of universal recognition orders. Customary title will cover development rights, and the right to veto development by others. Some mineral rights will be conferred. The universal recognition orders will recognise the links an iwi has with the foreshore and seabed, but will not confer any rights. Maori Party co-leaders Pita Sharples and Tariana Turia said they had fulfilled a long-standing promise to repeal the Foreshore and Seabed Act, which did not permit iwi to seek customary title through the courts. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016356

Description: A dog representing the government is being moved backwards and forwards by its tail, representing the Maori Party. A newspaper nearby has the news 'Foreshore & seabed Bill' and 'Review of NZ constitution'. Refers to the Maori Party making both of these actions a condition of their support for the National government. The dog's apparent movement by its own tail represents the expression 'to wag the dog', which refers to a situation where something of secondary importance improperly takes on the role of something of primary importance Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).