Defined contribution pension plans

Date: 25 May 2007

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

Reference: A-453-100

Description: Shows Finance Minister Michael Cullen demonstrating how the KiwiSaver scheme works to a New Zealand man. He points out if you put 4% of your income into the piggybank (KiwiSaver) until you turn 65 you will be able to pay for your water bill. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 300 x 420mm

Date: 2016

Reference: Eph-C-PEACE-2016-01

Description: Poster appealing to politicians to stop Kiwisaver from investing in companies that manufacture weapons. It shows an arrangement of text superimposed on a photograph of banknotes. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 415 x 295 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dylan Owen, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: 2006

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0004908

Description: Shows a circus scene; Prime Minister, Helen Clark, stands on the shoulders of Finance Minister, Michael Cullen with a tooth brush labelled 'oral care' and a bag labelled 'Kiwisaver rates and rebates' in her right hand, while swinging from her left arm is a bag of "Pledge cards" and Taito Phillip Field, MP for Mangere, whose costume is stuffed with cash. Swinging from a trapeze nearby is National Party deputy leader, Gerry Brownlee, who holds onto National Party leader, Don Brash. He tells him to take a good hit to topple Helen Clark's precarious balancing act. Cartoon shows the Labour Party is very close to losing its appeal over various blunders and the Phillip Field scandal, while its opponents are hopeful that the situation might worsen for the Labour Party. The filename of the digital original states that the file is created on 4 September, 2005. However, the file creation date within the file properties suggests that it is actually created in 2006. Also, this cartoon is found to be published in the 2006 September 11th issue of MG Business. Therefore, it is concluded that the year as stated in the filename is incorrect. Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called 'MG Business', which was inside a folder called 'AWS Cartoon highlights, Nov'04-May'07' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0008414

Description: Shows Michael Cullen pointing to some stars in the sky labelled 'KiwiSaver'. Behind him a group of people are pickpocketing his wallet labelled 'Govt Surplus'. Refers to the Kiwi Saver scheme and the government surplus. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

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

Reference: DCDL-0003375

Description: Finance Minister, Michael Cullen, as a farmer, holds a 'Kiwisaver' pig by a rope round its neck. The pig tells two sheep named, 'Business' and 'Taxpayers' to do what Farmer Cullen says and get in line. Refers to the government's 'Kiwisaver' strategy to get people to save for retirement. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0007794

Description: Shows a manic John Key, leader of the National Party chopping up 'big plans, tax cuts, Kiwisaver, and Kiwi Bank' and wondering how is is going to sell this. John Key has a large key protruding from his back. Refers to the policies that National has been promising in the run up to the November election that will probably have to be modified as a result of the global financial crisis. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

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

Reference: DCDL-0003377

Description: An employee tells his boss that he is signing up to Kiwisaver and asks him if he will match his contributions. The employer assures him that he will but sets the employee's next payrise on fire. Refers to the government's new Kiwisaver scheme to encourage people to save for their retirement. The scheme requires employers to match contributions made by the employee. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0006784

Description: Shows Kate Wilkinson, National's Industrial Relations spokesperson, riding a bike with 'spokes' but no 'tyres'. Refers to her making comments about the employer contribution to KiwiSaver under a National government being under threat. This forced National to announce that it would back the turbo-charged KiwiSaver after Kate Wilkinson incorrectly told a business audience that compulsory employer contributions was not party policy. There is a play with words and images over 'tyreless' and 'tires' and 'spokeswoman' and bicycle 'spokes'. 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: 2008

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0008394

Description: "Jitterati" cartoon strip. Shows Jaimee getting confused with the number of Kiwisaver schemes available. Debbie says that she went with the most ethical - Thermonuclear Poison Gas Weapons Development Investments Ltd. Jaimee asks whether that is the most ethical. Debbie replies that for every $1000 invested, they send a member of Downstage to Business School. Refers to the Kiwisaver schemes and to the financial difficulties of Downstage Theatre. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0007779

Description: Shows leader of the National Party, John Key, followed by his deputy, Bill English, brandishing swords and chasing a terrified kiwi who represents 'Kiwisaver' through the bush. They yell at him to come back and tell him that it won't hurt. Refers to National's policy decision to axe Kiwisaver in order to pay for tax cuts. The tax cuts are to be funded by savings in reduced KiwiSaver rebates for employers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0006627

Description: A reporter asks the National Party Industrial Relations spokeswoman, Kate Wilkinson, if she has anything more to say on the Kiwisaver scheme. Kate Wilkinson is gagged and so cannot reply. Refers to the fact that National leader John Key was forced to reveal that his party would retain compulsory employer contributions after his MP Kate Wilkinson told a business breakfast the opposite thing. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0007819

Description: In the first of two frames a National Party paddle steamer named 'Tax Cuts' cruises along a river. National Party leader John key asks Finance spokesman Bill English how they are paying for the luxury cruise. In the second frame the back of the paddle steamer is shown with the name 'Kiwi Saver' painted on it. It has crumbled away but Bill English advises John Key not to worry about it. Refers to questions about how National will finance its promises of tax cuts if it becomes the next government. One of the ways is likely to be a slashing of the Kiwi saver scheme. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0007494

Description: Shows a faceless figure representing the National Party standing in a spotlight. The figure wears a huge belted coat beneath which it is keeping its policy agenda. Several items of the agenda fall out from beneath the coat in a series of bangs. The first is the policy on Kiwisaver, the second the policy on road tolls and the third policy on Kiwibank. Each of these policies has been 'leaked' or declared prematurely. The National Party was being accused of being slow to declare policy and also to change their minds about policy they had already commented on. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0006654

Description: Shows in three frames the words of National backbencher, Kate Wilkinson, as she realises that she has voiced an interpretation of National policy about the Kiwisaver savings scheme that has caused the leader, John Key to disagree with her and state that the National party intends to keep compulsory employer contributions to Kiwisaver. In the last frame her words come from under a large mushroom as she complains about being kept in the dark. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0013181

Description: Shows Finance Minister Michael Cullen demonstrating how the KiwiSaver scheme works to a New Zealand man. He points out if you put 4% of your income into the piggybank (KiwiSaver) until you turn 65 you will be able to pay for your water bill. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0006160

Description: The first of six frames shows a news item that poses the question of whether Kiwisaver will do as the NZ Superannuation Fund did and invest in the manufacture of nuclear weapons and cluster bombs. The next five frames show the head of Finance Minister, Michael Cullen, as he considers the fact that nukes and cluster bombs have provided great returns on the NZ Super Fund and wondering whether he should consider investing Kiwisaver in the same way. As he considers, he morphs into a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion. In the lower part of each of these five frames a kiwi hatches from a Kiwisaver egg and grows from being a helpless babe to an old man who has been fried as he relaxes in his deckchair. As he grows he considers how odd it is that the security of our future is ensured by things that ensure that others have no future. Published in Presto Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0008361

Description: "Jitterati" cartoon strip. Shows Jaimee talking about her knowledge of KiwiSaver. She knows it's voluntary, but is it a good thing to join, can she afford deductions of 4-8%, and if she doesn't join will she find herself in 2042 wishing she had joined. Debbe asks Tony if Jaimee will have a different hairstyle by then. Tony says she would be ideally placed to tell from the next Lay-Z-Boy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0007785

Description: A little spotted kiwi which is on the New Zealand engangered species list sits on a huge egg representing 'saver'. A slavering cat representing 'tax cuts' spots the kiwi between a gap in the trees. Refers to the danger of the Kiwisaver scheme being undermined by the tax cuts that are being promised by National in the run-up to the election. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0006635

Description: John Key, leader of the National Party is being interviewed by a barrage of reporters about when he intends to release policy. Behind him stands National backbencher, Kate Wilkinson who says 'Gack' through her gag. John Key says that of course National will be releasing policy before the election because backbenchers like Kate Wilkinson will unwittingly and accidentally do it for him. Refers to Kate Wilkinson's making a statement about the Kiwisaver scheme that John Key was forced to contradict. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).