Political parties - Public opinion

Date: 1999

From: Various cartoonists :[Cartoons collected by Jim Anderton, 1970s-2011]

By: Ball, Murray Hone, 1939-2017

Reference: B-197-033

Description: Shows politicians from the National and ACT parties (Jenny Shipley and Richard Prebble?) feeding people to hungry sharks. The people are labelled 'the poor', 'the sick', 'jobless' and 'the old', while the sharks are labelled 'the rich', 'corporates', 'foreign investors' and 'multi-nationals' Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies photocopy of original cartoon. Physical Description: Laser copy in mat, 400 x 295 mm (sight) Processing information: Record updated on 29 June 2023 when the access and use conditions were updated per the agreement with Diogenes Designs Limited for the Murray Ball Estate.

Date: 1989

From: Various cartoonists :[Cartoons collected by Jim Anderton, 1970s-2011]

By: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958-

Reference: B-197-029

Description: Shows Jim Anderton trying to hitch a ride to the Beehive, as cars labelled 'Voters' speed past him. He has his stuck-out thumb in a bandage, and NLP on his jacket, suggesting he has recently founded the new left-of-centre party after breaking away from Labour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Al Nisbet [photocopied] Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies photocopy of a hand-coloured cartoon. Physical Description: Coloured photocopy, 325 x 260 mm (image)

Date: 1981

From: Various cartoonists :[Cartoons collected by Jim Anderton, 1970s-2011]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Reference: B-197-038

Description: Shows Jim Anderton as Cupid, shooting an arrow into Rob Muldoon's behind. Bill Rowling, sitting next to Muldoon and dressed as a woman, looks shocked. As Muldoon flies off his seat he drops what appears to be an olive branch, labelled 'electoral reform'. This refers to the general election held on 28 November, 1981. For the second election in a row, Labour won more votes than National, but fewer seats, allowing National to retain government despite not winning the popular vote. This result, and that of 1978, contributed to New Zealand adopting the Mixed Member Proportional system of proportional representation in the 1990s. Jim Anderton was President of the Labour Party in 1981, Bill Rowling the party leader Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Minhinnick [in ink]; Recto - beneath image - NZ Herald, 4.12.81 [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, marker pen and letratone on card, 280 x 440 mm (image)

Date: [23 September 2014]

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: [Original cartoons by Chris Slane featured in a retrospective exhibition at Alta Gallery, Wellington, 8-22 October 2016.]

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: A-474-025

Description: Prime Minister John Key stands on his 'Planet Key', resembling a golf course, floating in the sky. He is waving to Labour Party leader David Cunliffe as he clings to the flaming meteorite of the Labour Party as it plunges to earth. See digital version at DCDL-0029502. Published in the 'Listener' 25 September 2014. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - SLANE cartoons Ltd. [in graphite] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and graphite on card, 225 x 303 mm

Date: 2013

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

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025684

Description: Under the caption 'Political Podiatry' is a mock advertisement for 'Flip flops - the bottom line of jandals presents the Peter Dunne Flip flops'. Other claims include 'S[c]andal for the unregistered', 'available for both feet - left & right!', 'Twist and u-turn with confidence - circular navigation - go in different directions...at the same time - oral applications!', ' "Follow in the steps of grateness" ' On the last week of July 2013, Peter Dunne changed his position on support for the GCSB Amendment Bill twice. There was some speculation behind his motives. 'S[c]andal for the unregistered' refers to the failed first attempt of his United Future Party to register for representation in Parliament. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Dominion post (Newspaper); Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0025878

Description: Drawn in the style of Salvador Dali and titled after one of his lithographs, the cartoon shows the leader of the opposition, David Shearer as a disembodied head, lacking all potency and supported by multiple props. Two Labour Party supporters are holding further props. One asks 'Where shall I shove this one?' The other looks anxiously at a floppy clock ticking relentlessly to the election. By July 2013, with the Labour Party, and David Shearer in particular, lagging in public opinion polls, supporters were wearying of the attempts to prop up his leadership as an alternative to that of the government. With a year and half to the election, cutting their losses and installing a new leader seemed the more viable option. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Dominion post (Newspaper); Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0026092

Description: Above the caption 'A change on the wind' a woman in a barren and drought-ridden landscape waters a small red fern symbolising the Labour Party. Context includes the race for the Party's leadership role, with speculation that it may signal a revival of the Party's fortunes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026249

Description: Depicts Max telling the MP for Upper Creek that polls are showing he's more popular with the public than his own caucus because the public don't know him as well. Other Titles - Fletcher, David, 1952- "According to the latest poll, you're more popular with the public than you are with your own caucus!". The Politician. 26 September 2013 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0026373

Description: Cartoon depicts the leader of the Labour Party, David Cunliffe balancing on a tight rope, carrying a pole which has two men on either side labelled 'Left' and 'Right'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0026690

Description: Two zookeepers, with caps labelled 'Media', look at a newspaper's headline: 'NZ Media is a zoo say United Future president'. One keeper says '...I suppose, in a way, they're right...'. Behind them are two cages labelled 'United Future'. One contains a monkey, the other Peter Dunne, in the guise of a sulphur-crested cockatoo. At the United Future Party's conference on 10 November 2013, Party president Robin Gunston described the media as "hyenas" who did not do enough to emphasise the importance of the small parties in the political process. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025124

Description: Shows the hair of United Future leader Peter Dunne emerging from the top of the Dr Who Tardis beside the words 'Parliament's it's about Time Lord needs to regenerate... again, beform he becomes a Political Dalek' with the word Dalek crossed out and replaced with 'derelict'. There is a sign saying 'United Future past and present meeting tonite in this fone box'. Wider context refers to both the recent announcement of the search for a new 'Dr Who' after the 11th actor to fill the longstanding role, Matt Smith, announced he is leaving the show after the current season and to debate around the future of United Future and its leader Peter Dunne. Dunne is accused of leaking documents relating to the report into the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) to a Fairfax journalist. Wider context also refers to the recent announcement by the Electoral Commission that it was deregistering the party. Party president Robin Gunston said the party had asked for the move to be taken while it cleared up 'inconsistencies' with its membership numbers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Sunday star times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025147

Description: Shows MP and United Future leader Peter Dunne carrying an old bag labelled United Future while he dashes forward saying "Truthst me... don't ban fluowide! I've lothst enough teeth as it is...th!" Wider context refers to the damage to United Future and Peter Dunne's reputation in the wake of revelations he allegedly leaked a secret document on the GCSB to a Fairfax journalist and that United Future may not meet the required party membership numbers. Also refers to increasingly heated debate around the addition of fluoride to New Zealand water after a recent vote by Hamilton City councillors against the fluoridation of the city's water supply, sparking widespread concern from health professionals. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0025240

Description: John Key, as a mother living in a run-down house with two misbehaving and destructive children called 'Act' and U Future' explains to a neighbour bearing a faint resemblance to Julia Gillard that she never wanted the children, but the she could not survive without 'benefits they bring'. The National government of 2011 was dependent on the votes of the ACT and United Future parties, each with a single member in Parliament. Both members were aware of their importance to the government and were reluctantly given much leeway. Also refers to the claim advanced by some that some poor families deliberately had children for the sake of the Child Benefit. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0025292

Description: John Key, as adepressed housewife, living in a battered house tells her neighbour (Julia Gillard) over the fence that she 'never wanted' her two children 'U Future' and 'ACT', two actively destructive children, but that she 'couldn't survive without 'em'. The actions of the single-member parties, ACT and United Future, were essential to the support of the National Party government. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0025300

Description: Two panelled cartoon showing the United Future Party before and after 'de-registration'. The 'Pre-' panel is the skeleton of a poodle with the head of Peter Dunne. In the 'post' panel the head is now attached artificially to a stuffed poodle. Before de-registration, Peter Dunne could claim to represent a Party, skeletal though it may have been. After de-registration, the Party no longer existed, and Peter Dunne represented only himself. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0025294

Description: Lianne Dalziel takes on the role of Captain Oates in the Scott polar expedition of 1912 as she strides out into the blizzard, heading for the 'CCC' (Christchurch City Council). Unlike Oates, her last words are 'I'm going IN...and may be some time'. In June 2013 the Labour Member of Parliament for Christchurch East, Lianne Dalziel, announced that she would stand for the Mayoralty of Christchurch and would resign from Parliament. Would her attempt be successful or would it be regarded as an heroic self-sacrifice for the Labour Party? Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0029800

Description: Cartoon shows a potential leaders of the Labour Party singing on stage at the auditions for the television talent show, The X Factor. A voice from off-stage calls out, "Wrong audition! The Labour 'yawn factor's' down the road. Labour party members portrayed from left to right are Grant Robertson, Andrew Little, David Parker, and Nanaia Mahuta. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021567

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The Politician tells one of his staff that if the Party is to have any chance at the next election, they must be united. The Party's reaction was to argue about it. Although the Party is unnamed, it is apparent that the Labour Party with its bickering factions is meant. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021960

Description: An interviewer questions the Prime Minister, John Key, on the reaction to the proposed asset sales by the international money and investment markets, the equity sector and the banks. Key replies in the affirmative for all but banks, of which he simply says 'He's got no option!' 'Banks', in John Key's mind, means not only the banking sector, but also the discredited leader of ACT, John Banks, who is completely dependant on the goodwill of Key and Cabinet to stay as a part of Government. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Fairfax Media Limited (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021966

Description: Two men, one of whom is summarising John Key's arguments for the (parliamentary) bill on the partial sale of assets. He concludes by saying that 'he had a mandate'. The other replies that Bill must be his partner. The cartoonist comments 'At last! - Informed debate!' A pun, playing on the words 'Bill' and 'mandate', with the second man illustrating the lack of understanding of the issue of asset sales by many of the population in New Zealand. Colour and black and white versions are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).