Software failures
Winter, Mark 1958- :'Wrong!! I'm a Novopay debt collector.' 13 March 2013
Date: 2013
From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers
By: Southland times (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0024200
Description: A Australian with a dunce's cap is pictured. He is not a cricket player, disgraced after the poor form shown by Australia in recent matches against India, but a debt collector for Novopay. The Australian firm, Talent2, who ran the Novopay teachers' payment system for the Ministry of Education, were not only responsible for its many failures, but also briefly attempted to retrieve money that Novopay had paid out wrongly by authorising debt collection agencies. This was a further disaster in public relations. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:"Hekia again?" 4 February 2013
Date: 2013
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald
By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0024668
Description: Steven Joyce, as a Pet Rescue service, is called in by John Key to rescue Hekia Parata once again from the hole labelled 'Novopay' in which she has found herself. The Ministry of Education's Novopay payment debacle continued into February 2013. Steven Joyce was assigned to provide a task force to find some resolution. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Award nominees. 25 February 2013
Date: 2013
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald
By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0024672
Description: Inspired by the recent Oscar award ceremony, the cartoonist offers nominations of his own: Hekia Parata, the Minister of Education, as 'La Miserable', cleaning up mess of the Novopay issues, the class size debacle, and the closure of Christchurch schools; the Prime Minister, John Key, in 'Djonki unchained', breaking free from 'moderate' government policies; and 'Life of Pi (in the sky)' with the New Zealand Black Caps cricket team facing England (the Lion) in a lifeboat for their forthcoming test series, with the Black Caps optimistic that at least their opponent is not a tiger (officially representing Bangladesh, who had throughly beaten New Zealand in their last test series). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Hubbard, James, 1949- :"I cannot tell a lie Father, I watched them do it..." 7 June 2013
Date: 2013
From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons
By: Setford News Photo Agency
Reference: DCDL-0025187
Description: The government as George Washington, the public as George Washington's father and, as a hapless bystander, the Ministry of Education stand around a felled cherry tree. George Washington points to the bystander and says 'I cannot tell a lie father, I watched them do it...' By June 2013, the disasters which befell the state of education in New Zealand, including the Novopay debacle and school closures, demanded a public scapegoat. Ignoring the code of ministerial responsibility, the Minister of Education, Hekia Parata and the government as a whole blamed officials in the Ministry of Education. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).