Student loans

Date: 16 May 2011

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-404

Description: Finance Minister, Bill English, is represented as a chef who has created a 'Double downer' that is 'ugly, indigestible and tastes of despair which means it must be health food, right?' The burger has printed on it 'Kiwisaver cuts' and 'Interest on student loans'. Context: Refers to the 2011 budget. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - 1605A8BODYCARTOON Pls send to MediaGrid [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 340 mm

Date: 2005

By: New Zealand University Students' Association

Reference: Eph-A-UNIVERSITY-2005-01

Description: An arrangement of text, protesting at the conditions under which student loans are administered. Refers to King Kong, the giant ape, because Peter Jackson's motion picture was released at that time, in 2005. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital (?) print on sticker, 100 x 105 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2008.

Date: 1989

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[21 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in January and February, 1989.]

Reference: A-225-167

Description: Cartoon shows Death as a skeleton in a hooded robe, knocking at the door of the Labour Government, with a document titled "Student Loan Scheme". This implies that the scheme will be the final undoing of the Labour Government. Other Titles - February Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on card 185 x 267 mm.

Date: 1992

From: Heath, Eric, 1923- :Cartoons from the `Daily Smile' exhibition (1994-1996). [1970-1992].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: B-143-025

Description: God sits on his throne in heaven a looks somewhat taken aback when a cherub delivers a fax from New Zealand saying that anyone who arrives in heaven and looks like a student should be sent back immediately. Several students are arriving in heaven clutching books and apples. Refers to the directive from Treasury that students with loans, who then die, are required to pay back the loan. The loan system began in 1992. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 325 x 485mm

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0005542

Description: Shows a fat cat named 'Nats' wearing a pair of jandals that go 'flip' and 'flop' and clutching a 'policies' document in its left paw while it swallows a delicious 'dead rat' named 'student loans'. Refers to the number of about-turns and rethinking of original policy statements that National has done in the light of the reality of the upcoming 2008 elections. Interest-free loans for students is apparently the eighth dead rat that National has swallowed; National couldnt enter an election campaign promising to raise interest rates on student loans. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009601

Description: Shows Don Brash, leader of the National Party, blowing balloons representing various National Party policies and promises made in the lead up to the 2005 general election. See DCDL-0009602 for black and white version. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009602

Description: Shows Don Brash, leader of the National Party, blowing balloons representing various National Party policies and promises made in the lead up to the 2005 general election. See DCDL-0009601 for colour version. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0011852

Description: In the first of two frames Leader of the Labour Party Phil Goff drives a car with a loud speaker on its roof through which he shouts that all kiwis should get the dole and in the second frame the car is reversing fast and Goff yells that that is not what he meant and he is still working on the detail. Seems that Goff made a bit of a gaffe by wading into the debate before he had thought policy through. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0005280

Description: Shows an episode in a television programme called 'Fear factor' in which Prime Minister, Helen Clark tries to make Leader of the opposition National Party, John Key eat a bowl of worms labelled 'Interest-free student loans', a dead rat labelled 'Kiwisaver' and a stinking dog's head labelled 'Kiwibank'. Refers to John Key 'eating dead rats' as he removes issues that would almost certainly cause problems and which hold potential threats to his party's election chances. He has accepted Kiwisaver and withdrawn opposition to interest-free student loans. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009518

Description: Shows two IRD (Inland Revenue Department) officials waiting for amnesty payments. However nobody is queuing or has arrived. The room in which the stand in has a noose and chair waiting for someone. Refers to tax amnesty. See DCDL-0009519 for black and white version. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0007187

Description: Shows American Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, weeping as she is arrested by two policemen for being one of the Bush Mob and for crimes against humanity. Her lawyer claims that condemnation to a lifetime of paying off a student loan plus being confined with Winston Peters to discuss issues of mutual interest, is cruel and unnatural punishment not proportionate with her offending. Refers to her recent visit to New Zealand during which Winston Peters hosted her but also refers to her position in the Bush government and comments on the ethics of the Iraq War in particular. A group of students tried to kidnap her for such offences when she was in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009519

Description: Shows two IRD (Inland Revenue Department) officials waiting for amnesty payments. However nobody is queuing or has arrived. The room in which the stand in has a noose and chair waiting for someone. Refers to tax amnesty. See DCDL-0009518 for colour version. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0006924

Description: Shows two elderly people standing against a background of the Beehive. They have just finished paying off their student loans after 50 years and have just moved into a house. The house in question is the Beehive and they intend to grow honey. The man says that with fertility treatment they can strat having children but the woman seems to think that menopause and precautionary castration for prostate cancer means it is too late to have children. Refers to the way large student loans are difficult to pay back for some people and means they have to postpone children and the buying of houses. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0007042

Description: Shows a woman and her partner visiting the doctor. The woman is worried because her partner has been working like a dog for years and has suddenly pronounced that they will one day be able to afford a house. The doctor assumes he has been taking hallucinatory drugs. Refers to the heavy load of debt that many students have to deal with after graduation which makes house-buying difficult. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0006202

Description: Shows two daft women reading a news headline outside a dairy that says 'student debt reaches $10 billion'. One of them comments that the student must have lived 'the high life', misinterpreting the report as referring to a single student instead of to the whole body of students with loans. Refers to the high level of student debt. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 10 April 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000189

Description: Photographs of a protest against student debt, Wellington, taken 10 April 2008 by Dylan Owen. The protestors made their way from Victoria University to Parliament Grounds. Arrangement: Files were originally in a folder labelled 'Student Fee Protest 10 April 2006#D380'' which was on a disk labelled 'Wellington Protests 2007-2008' Quantity: 50 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2013

From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]

Reference: DCDL-0024845

Description: Shows a set of parents holding a welcome home sign at the international arrivals section of the airport that says, 'Welcome home Stu Dent [heart] Mum and Dad'. Beside them stand two police officers with a sign that says, 'Ditto! [heart] Bill English'. Text at the top of the cartoon reads, 'Debt-owing students to be arrested at border'. Refers to Finance Minister, Bill English. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021141

Description: Cartoon indicates with arrows that the 2012 May budget is likely to target student loans and smokers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021672

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The Green party, Child Poverty Action Group and student associations are outraged at a Government plan to change the student loan repayment rate. The Government announced this afternoon that more than 500,000 people will have to pay back their student loans more quickly and people studying for more than four years will no longer be able to claim an allowance. (NZ Herald May 3 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Fairfax Media Limited (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021194

Description: A drowning man yells for help from a 'well-educated young person' who leaps to the man's assistance with a huge iron ball that represents 'student loan' shackled to his ankle. Context: The government has announced two weeks ahead of the Budget that more than 500,000 people will have to pay back their student loans more quickly and people studying for more than four years will no longer be able to claim an allowance. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).