Pole dancing

Date: 2012

Reference: Eph-E-TAVERN-2012-01

Description: Poster advertising live music performance nights at the Matterhorn venue in Cuba Street, shows a head and shoulders portrait of a dark-skinned woman with an afro hairstyle wearing a strapless black gown and about to eat a melting square of chocolate. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print, 835 x 590 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phantom Billstickers Ltd in December 2012.

Date: 2012

Reference: Eph-E-MUSIC-Popular-2012-03

Description: Poster advertising a live music event at the Wellington Cup Racetrack at Trentham shows a small inset illustration of three horses in a galloping race, within a Stella Artois shield, with laurel sprigs at its base. The names of the performers are listed below. The whole is superimposed on a patterned background of roses. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 840 x 595 mm.

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0013460

Description: The cartoon shows a pole dancer representing 'The noughties' swinging round a pole. Text reads 'Hot stuff!' and also '2000-2009 - NZ's warmest on record'. A second version has the words in small print '"pole" dancin'? at the bottom of the frame. Refers to the increase in temperatures due to global warming over the first decade of the 21st millennium. There is a wordplay on 'pole' as in a tall structure around which one can swing and the North and South Poles. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0008132

Description: Shows John Key, leader of the National Party, at the top of a pole. He is wearing only blue shorts and socks. Below him is Helen Clark, the leader of the Labour Party. Refers to the public opinion polls which shows that Key and the National Party are ahead of Clark and the Labour Party. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0005593

Description: Shows Mayor of Invercargill, Tim Shadbolt, as a pole dancer. The word's 'Flight Mayor!' appear as text. Refers to Tim Shadbolt dancing around a pole and gyrating in front of the nation on television - all in a bid to secure 1000 $1 flights for southerners wanting to travel between Invercargill and Christchurch. Tim Shadbolt won the seats as the highest polling mayor. The mayors of Invercargill, Hamilton, Palmerston North and Dunedin were competing for top honours in the inaugural "Mayor Idol" run by Air New Zealand's grabaseat yesterday. There is a play on the words 'pole' and 'poll'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0008428

Description: Shows a fireman's pole in which politicians Don Brash, David Benson-Pope, Donna Awatere Huata and Taito Philip Field have gone down. One of them thinks "This pole dancing isn't what I expected..". Refers to politicians who admitted to visiting strip clubs. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-: Digital cartoons published in The Press, Sunday Star Times, Dominion Post, and other publications

By: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0030118

Description: Shows a number of well-dressed and cash-rich figures queuing to get into the 'Cabinet Club' which promises poll and lap dancing. Steven Joyce and John Key take and count money, while the general public's knocks go unanswered. Refers to opposition criticism of the National Party's so-called 'Cabinet Club' where, allegedly, the public could purchase time with current Ministers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).