Politicians - Complaints against

Date: 1995

By: Brockie, Robert Ellison (Dr), 1932-

Reference: A-470-016

Description: Shows Pope John Paul II sitting eating a meal of spaghetti with a glass of red wine. One of his aides relates a fax message sent from New Zealand which asks the Pope to appear on the popular local television show 'Shortland Street'. Refers to an incident on Sunday 8 October 1995, when the Hon John Banks pretended to interview the Pope on his talkback radio show. Radio Pacific received complaints as a result and Banks was made to publicly apologise The cartoon was published in the 4 November 1995 issue of the National Business Review Other Titles - Banks' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Brockie [in ink]; Recto - left of image - Issue 13.10.95 to Editor NBR [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, marker pen and white corrector on card, 295 x 420 mm Provenance: Donation: Claire Viskovic, Wellington, September 2015

Date: 18 July 2006

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

Reference: A-453-287

Description: Shows Taito Philip Field outside a nightclub called 'Bad Judgement' in which admission is not allowed without a Thai. Refers to allegations of bribery and corruption against Field. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - CARTOON 19 CARTOON 186mm x 133 Pls scan and send to pix on hand [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 340 mm

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015593

Description: A colleague cannot believe that the minister has a conviction for obtaining a false passport and advises him to use it to leave the country. Refers to ACT MP David Garrett who has been sacked for past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport apparently as a kind of joke. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Mulheron, Michael, 1958-: Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post

Reference: DCDL-0017413

Description: Leader of the Labour Party Phil Goff slips on a banana skin; in the background is the Beehive, and Labour's Chief Whip Darren Hughes walks away looking somewhat dejected. Context - Chief Labour Party whip Darren Hughes has been forced to resign after an 18 year old student laid a sex complaint with police. Police are still investigating. The mishandling of the affair by Phil Goff is yet another blow for the Labour Party as the November election approaches. The cartoon accompanies an article by Tracy Watkins in 'Political Week' - it is entitled 'Hughes' problem, Goff's nightmare'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0015696

Description: David Garrett former ACT MP who has recently been sacked holds behind his back a 'suppression order' and stands on the small headstone of a baby's grave shouting 'Zero tolerance for criminals who trample over innocent victims!' David Garrett was forced to admit that he had stolen a dead baby's identity in order to forge a passport many years ago. His role in the ACT Party was that of Law and Order spokesman and so he and his leader Rodney Hide who purported not to know the details of Garrett's offending are charged with hypocrisy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017401

Description: Text at the top reads 'A fear crack'; a whip lashes across the cartoon and ends in the word 'Labour'. Below is the word 'WHIPLASH Hughes at fault?' A second version has text at the top reading 'A fear crack in election year' and below is the word 'LABOUR' with a fernleaf above and a whip lashing through it; below is the word 'whiplash!' A third version is the same as the first but has the text 'A fear crack in election year' at the top. Context - Chief Labour Party whip Darren Hughes has been forced to resign after an 18 year old student laid a sex complaint with police. Police are still investigating. This is yet another blow for the Labour Party as the November election approaches. There is a wordplay on 'whip' as in 'chief whip' and 'cracking whips'. Quantity: 3 digital cartoon(s).

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

Reference: DCDL-0017399

Description: Text reads 'The hitchhiker on the Labour Party's leadership lane'; the cartoon depicts a naked and sweating Phil Goff, Leader of the Labour Party, reaches from behind some bushes late in the evening to thumb a lift. Context - Phil Goff's leadership is being called to question in the run-up to the November election. The cartoon has been suggested by an alleged incident that has brought about the downfall of Labour MP, Darren Hughes. The incident involves an 18-year-old male who, after a night of drinking, ended up in Mr Hughes' home; in the early hours of the morning witnesses saw a man who matched the description of the young man, naked and trying to hitch a ride in the Wellington suburb of Haitaitai. Colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015612

Description: Transport Minister Steven Joyce has admitted two careless-driving offences, including one involving an injury to a motorcyclist. Refers also to the skeletons in the cupboard of ACT Party MP David Garrett. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017402

Description: Text above reads 'Hughes right & Hughes wrong?' (wordplay on 'Who's right and who's wrong?) Above the words 'LABOUR whiplash!' is a fernleaf ending in a lashing whip. Context - Chief Labour Party whip Darren Hughes has been forced to resign after an 18 year old student laid a sex complaint against him with police. Police are still investigating. This is yet another blow for the Labour Party as the November election approaches. The word 'whiplash' suggests an over-hasty reaction. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0015610

Description: Leader of the ACT Party Rodney Hide insists that his party is right behind him in spite of his misjudgements and David Garrett's resignation over various former misdemeanours but he is standing close to an abyss and begins to realise that other party members are a bit close, in fact almost pushing. PM John Key has also stated support for Rodney Hide. Labour thinks the party is thoroughly discredited and critics accuse Hide of hypocrisy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017392

Description: Chief whip for the Labour Party, Darren Hughes, whips in a frenzy the naked back of Labour Party leader Phil Goff who thinks to himself 'That *!#* whip has to go!.. Context - Darren Hughes has been forced to resign after an 18 year old student laid a sex complaint with police. Police are still investigating. This is yet another blow for the Labour Party as the November election approaches. There is a wordplay on '*!#* whip' and another word often used to describe an excessively stupid individual. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015606

Description: Text reads 'The only thing the government needs to do over ACT and Rodney Hide...' Prime Minister John Key dithers indecisively before a basin of water beside which is soap and antiseptic lotion. Refers to chaos in the ACT Party because of a public spat between Rodney Hide and Heather Roy whom he has dumped as his deputy in favour of John Boscawen and more importantly the scandal caused by David Garrett's past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport as a kind of joke. However the PM has affirmed that he believes Rodney Hide exercises good judgement, this his critics believe, because of the danger of the coalition slipping - hence the indecisiveness. (NZ Herald) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014074

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Refers to plans to give MPs even more protection against being sued if they make defamatory comments. But Professor Noel Cox, of Auckland University of Technology's School of Law and a member of the Auckland District Law Society, says MPs do not deserve more protection. If anything, he says, MPs need to be more responsible and accountable for what they say in parliament. Records for the cartoons in this collection have not been enhanced by a full 'scope and contents' as they are essentially self-explanatory and can be searched by key word. They do have subject headings. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015592

Description: A reporter asks the minister if he has any convictions that we don't know about - he means criminal convictions, not firm beliefs - the minister says either way he has none. Refers to ACT MP David Garrett who has been sacked for past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport apparently as a kind of joke. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0013128

Description: Shows Taito Philip Field outside a nightclub called 'Bad Judgement' in which admission is not allowed without a Thai. Refers to allegations of bribery and corruption against Field. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017854

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister yells down the phone that he still has the letter of complaint and looks for it in his filing cabinet which is his rubbish bin. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0015624

Description: The ship 'Titanact' (wordplay on 'Titanic' and 'ACT') founders as a rat representing ACT MP David Garrett leaps into the sea and ACT leader 'Captain' Rodney Hide also with a rat's tail salutes as he remains standing on deck prepared to go down with the ship. In a second version Captain Rodney Hide lacks a rat's tail. Refers to chaos in the ACT Party because of a public spat between Rodney Hide and Heather Roy whom he has dumped as his deputy in favour of John Boscawen and more importantly the scandal caused by David Garrett's past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport as a kind of joke. However the PM has affirmed that he believes Rodney Hide exercises good judgement, this his critics believe, because of the danger of the coalition slipping. (NZ Herald) Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0011570

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strips, commenting on the foibles of politicians and political issues in New Zealand and published in the Dominion Post. These cartoons tend to reflect the current events of the day without dealing directly with them. Records for the cartoons in this collection have not been enhanced by a full 'scope and contents' as they are essentially self-explanatory and can be searched by key word. They do have subject headings. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0015590

Description: The title of the cartoon is 'Between a rock and a hard place...' The word 'HYPOCRISY' spelled out in huge hewn rocks throws a shadow that reads 'ACT'. Squeezed between the 'o' and the 'c' in the middle of the 'hypocrisy' rocks are ACT leader Rodney Hide and ACT MP David Garrett who has been sacked for past misdemeanours which include his stealing a dead baby's birth certificate to get a false passport as a kind of joke. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015646

Description: Building Minister Maurice Williamson, ACT leader Rodney Hide and Labour MP Chris Carter walk together past the Beehive. In the background two people wonder how such clowns get into parliament and how they can be got rid of. Refers to Maurice Williamson who got into hot water when he made jokes about Muslims and Samoan overstayers at a ceremony at the New Zealand Institute of Building awards for excellence in the building industry on August 20 in Auckland, to ACT leader Rodney Hide whose latest party debacle led to the dumping of MP David Garrett and Chris Carter who made a sorry mess of trying to overthrow the party leader Phil Goff and was also sacked for his trouble. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).