Māori (New Zealand people) - Education - Economic aspects

Date: 2006

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0001243

Description: The scene is the front entrance to Te Wananga o Aotearoa. Two staff are on their way home. One of them is worried that the government is planning to cut three hundred staff but the other tells her not to worry as the government had also been planning to make the wananga repay its mismanaged funds and that hasn't happened either. Rongo Wetere, CEO of Te Wananga o Aotearoa was eventually forced to resign because of mismanaged funds and other irregularities in the running of the largest tertiary institution in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0000159

Description: Minister of Economic Development, Trevor Mallard, stands before a box labelled 'Business Development Grants' which is full of money. He is saying that he can find a more efficient use for these grants. Behind him is an elephant named 'Wananga' which has its trunk in an almost empty box labelled 'Education Grants'. The reference is to the serious financial problems regarding the Wananga. Its CEO, Rongo Wetere, has recently resigned. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

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

Reference: DX-014-751

Description: The scene shows a boat named 'Wananga' and labelled 'Council' sitting on the floor of the ocean. Above, on the surface of the sea is a rubber dinghy in which sits Trevor Mallard, Minister of Education, making his threat about the Wananga's having twenty one days to convince him that it can get itself out of its financial difficulties; its failure to do so will mean that a Commissioner will be appointed. Mr Mallard announced in early May a $20 million loan to bail out the Te Awamutu-based tertiary institute which he said was on the brink of insolvency. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: National Business Review (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021973

Description: Titled `'White Flight', the cartoon shows white herons soaring gracefully to 'Decile Ten Land'. Below, black pukekos trudge to 'Decile One Land'. One holds a placard: 'Hav pity on the Meori kids/ hoo wend there way to skul/ and lern their English spelling/ with its total lack of rool'. 'White flight', i.e. richer, mainly white, classes of society, arranging to send their children to better schools is common. The children of the mainly Maori lower classes were concentrated in the lower decile schools, where their education suffered. The cartoonist also comments on the complexity of English with its supposed lack of rules. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0027656

Description: Cartoon depicts Education Minister Hekia Parata wearing a dunce's cap and pointing to a classroom blackboard showing the mark '2/10' for her assignment 'My handling of the kohanga reo debacle'. Refers to conflicting statements by Parata concerning allegations of misspending by the Te Kohanga Reo Trust's wholly owned subsidiary, Te Pataka Ohanga. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

By: Facebook (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0027679

Description: Cartoon depicts Education minister Hekia Parata aplogising for setting the 'SFO' dog on a woman. Commentary from the artist states "Given the erratic signals put out by the Minister Hekia Parata, the Kohanga Reo Trust must be wondering why they're now being pinned to the wall." Refers to contradictory statements by Parata regarding allegations that Te Pataka Ohanga, a subsidary of Te Kohanga Reo National Trust, misspent public money. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).