Welfare fraud

Date: 9 August 2017

From: Winter, Mark, 1958-: Original cartoons by Chicane (Mark Winter), from 2007-2018

Reference: A-478-042

Description: Shows two leaves falling off a tree. The style of the leaves is similar to the Green Party logo. Refers to Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei's controversial admission of benefit fraud and the subsequent resignation of two Green Party MPs. The word 'Treeson' [sic] is written beside the tree. Three versions of this cartoon were received digitally from the artist. Note from the artist states that the cartoon was 'printed with a moon + no text'. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - THE GREENS printed with a moon and no text [in pencil]; Recto - top right - 9.8.17 [in pen] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, felt-tip pen and whiteout on paper, 210 x 300mm

Date: 13 August 2017

From: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-: Political cartoons

Reference: A-479-020

Description: Two women, one with a toddler, talk at a cafe over a cup of coffee. They each agree that they would die for their children, but then become irate as they agree they would never lie to a government department for their children. Refers to former Green Party minister Metiria Turei admitting to benefit fraud during the early 1990s while studying for a law degree. The preliminary cartoon is at A-479-021. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [cartoonist's surname and date] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 210 x 295 mm

Date: [13 August 2017]

From: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-: Political cartoons

Reference: A-479-021

Description: Two women, one with a toddler, talk at a cafe over a cup of coffee. They each agree that they would die for their children, but then become irate as they agree they would never lie to a government department for their children. Refers to former Green Party minister Metiria Turei admitting to benefit fraud during the early 1990s while studying for a law degree. The finished cartoon is at A-479-020. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 210 x 295 mm

Date: 1993

From: Ellison, Anthony 1966- :Sunday Star; Cartoons, 28 March - 25 April 1993

Reference: H-034-005

Description: Shows Jenny Shipley with a loudspeaker talking to the occupants of a barn, marked 'welfare shelter'. Refers to the Dept of Social Welfare's investigations into benefit fraud Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 1993

From: Slane, Chris, 1957- :Cartoons entered in the 1993 Qantas Media Awards

Reference: A-299-079

Description: Shows Jenny Shipley connecting various electrical wires, which she then attaches to a beneficiary seated in a chair and blows him up. Refers to the planned matching of government department records to defeat benefit abuse, fraud, etc. Another copy at H-103-008 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 2010

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015749

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Sickness beneficiaries, in response to Treasury's suggestion that everyone on a sickness benefit should be moved onto the dole, think that, instead, everyone in Treasury should be moved onto the dole. Total future fiscal liability of the current unemployment benefit population is less than 10 per cent of the cost of the current DPB, sickness, and invalids' benefit - $3.2 billion compared to $41.9 billion," the Treasury says. The Treasury also challenges the current rule that a parental or disability beneficiary "cannot be pressured into taking up or accepting employment".Evidence at home and abroad found very poor rates of uptake in voluntary engagement schemes, with the UK - under a Labour Government - recently moving to an "obligations-based" regime, which is "expected to reduce lone parent unemployment by nearly 30 per cent". Striking a balance between beneficiary-bashing and acknowledging there's a real problem is politically difficult at the best of times, let alone for a risk-averse Government seeking re- election next year. (Stuff - 8 October 2010) 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: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017186

Description: Prime Minister John Key holds a document in one hand and raises his other hand into the air, extending a finger. A man and woman walking by watch the Prime Minister and the woman says, "Goodness, is the PM giving the fingers to the Welfare Working Group's report?" The man responds, "Not exactly... testing which way the wind's blowing before commenting on it." Context - A welfare working group report led by economist and former Chair of the New Zealand Commerce Commission, Paula Rebstock, is calling for fundamental changes to reduce the state's "unacceptably high" welfare bill. The report's key recommendation is to replace all existing benefits, including the Domestic Purposes and Sickness Benefits, with a single Jobseeker Support payment. The report also recommends extending the obligation to look for paid work to the majority of beneficiaries between age 18 and 64. According to Rebstock, only a third of the 352,700 working-aged beneficiaries are currently required to look for work - all 67,000 on unemployment benefits, 43,000 sole parents with no children under age 6, and 9,000 sickness beneficiaries who have been assessed as being able to work at least 15 hours a week. (NZ Herald 21 and 22 February 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0013422

Description: Cartoon shows a symbolic figure representing WINZ (Work and Income NZ) that says 'We'll take no more HARRISment. Text above reads 'Government considering cancelling the dole'. Refers to the news that the Government is considering cancelling unemployment benefits after a year and forcing beneficiaries to reapply. The 'HARRISment' (pun on harrassment') comment refers to the revelation by the press that the Harris family in Christchurch had received unemployment and sickness benefits for 25 years and recently received special-needs grants from Work and Income to fence their swimming pool and put new tyres on their 2007 Chrysler saloon. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0001920

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The Minister tells one of his research staff to review the case of everyone on a benefit. He waves his fist in the air and declares that the people have had enough of cheats and then he says that they must pretend to do something about it. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1993

From: Slane, Christopher Houlton, 1957- :The Listener cartoons. 6 February - 11 December 1993

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: H-103-008

Description: Shows Jenny Shipley connecting up various electrical wires, which she then attaches to a beneficiary seated in a chair and blows him up. Refers to the planned matching of government department records to defeat benefit abuse, fraud, etc Exhibited in 'Public Lives - New Zealand's Premiers and Prime Ministers 1856-2003 (Exhibition)', 2003. Published in 'Grant, Ian F. Public Lives - New Zealand's Premiers and Prime Ministers 1856-2003 (Book title)' 2003. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Clipping from periodical.

Date: 2000

From: Tremain, Garrick 1941- :Sixty-one cartoon photocopies published in the Otago Daily Times, 13 December 1999 - 22 March 2000.

Reference: H-607-043

Description: Two kiwi men are lounging on a Australian Gold Coast beach. One, reading a newspaper, reports to the other on the Australian government's move to get the New Zealand government to fund the unemployment benefits being paid to New Zealanders in Australia. The New Zealand dollar was currently worth approximately 80 Australian cents. Exhibited in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' exhibition of cartoons on the New Zealand-Australian relationship curated by Ian F. Grant of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library Gallery from 28 November 2001 to 24 February 2002 to mark the centenary of Australian Federation. Also exhibited at X Space Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland in mid-March 2002 and at Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia from 26 March 2003 to 29 June 2003. Published in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' by Ian F. Grant, published by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive in association with Tandem Press, 2001. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy A4 size

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0025582

Description: Depicts a 'family' of government politicans cavorting on a sofa; Prime Minister John Key, Minister For Social Development Paula Bennett, Justice Minister Judith Collins, ACT New Zealand Leader John Banks, United Future Leader Peter Dunne. The cartoon's text describes them as 'lazy benefit bludgers'. Refers to welfare reforms aimed at reducing the number of beneficiaries which will take effect from 15 July 2013. This includes new benefit categories and expectations, drug testing, outstanding arrest warrants and new social obligiations for parents. Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'In terms of drains on public finance, the biggest pigs feeding at the trough are the ones running the country'. 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-0024550

Description: Shows two knives beside a filleted fish which is just head, bones, and tail. One knife is labelled, IRD, and the other knife is labelled, Ministry of Social Development. Refers to a collaboration between the Ministry of Social Development and the Inland Revenue Department, which saw the cancellation of over 500 people's benefits due to welfare fraud. (Stuff.co.nz, 14 April 2013) Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0025415

Description: Shows two judges in conversation, one tells the other: "Had a fellow before me today... Ran two miles with a stolen fridge... When challenged he flattened 3 cops... Scaled a 20 foot wall, and was finally apprehended after a 20 minute fracas with 3 reinforcements." The other judge replies "Another sickness beneficiary?" Refers to the cartoonist's attitudes towards benefit fraud. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1980

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

Reference: B-144-283

Description: Shows eight hefty members of a gang riding on the back of a long-suffering donkey called "The law". They hold sacks of swag labelled "Compensation", and "The dole". Published in the Dominion on 29 October 1980. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Eric Heath Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, 273 x 390 mm on paper, 377 x 535 mm.