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Date: 2002

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-666-001/014

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 14 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: 2011

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017562

Description: Finance Minister Bill English struggles to work out a solution to New Zealand's economic problems; his desk and the surrounding floor are covered with abandoned scraps of paper. He asks PM John Key who sits smiling with his feet up on his desk 'John! How many times does four million go into zero?' John Key replies 'Work it out yourself, Bill It's your budget!' Context - Four million is the size of the population of New Zealand and the zero refers to the amount of money available for offering something in the budget which is due in May. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017870

Description: Finance Minister Bill English offers a chocolate from his box of 'Bill's budget chocs' to a constituent. She observes that 'Some of these seem a tiny bit smaller than they used to be' and Bill English replies 'Not the RWC fudge or the 'America's Cup cream... They're still as generous as they were'. Context - The 2011 budget was announced on Thursday 19 May with little sweetening and many cuts and alterations. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017756

Description: The cartoon shows an enormous tsunami that represents the RWC (Rugby World Cup) threatening a city. Context - The huge build-up to the Rugby World Cup which is scheduled to be played over seven weekends from the weekend starting 10 September and culminating the weekend starting 22 October 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017836

Description: Finance Minister Bill English sits at his desk surrounded by papers and files, some of which are labelled 'Budget', 'wastage' and 'borrowing' and tells Prime Minister, John Key, who stands behind that 'There are going to be some changes, John - Don't think you can go flitting off to the UK every time Prince William gets married. Context - John Key has recently attended Prince William's marriage to Kate Middleton. The cartoon suggests that the marriage will not last. It also makes a point about current economic difficulties. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017931

Description: Leader of the Labour Party, Phil Goff, smiles and says 'No worries!.. We'll clobber farmers with the Emissions Trading Scheme!!' One of two farmers behind him mutters 'Why doesn't someone put a cap on his emissions?' Context - A tax credit paid at a rate of 12.5 per cent to reward investment in research and development would be paid for by farmers picking up the $800 million cost of their greenhouse gas emissions over five years, instead of by taxpayers. Labour leader Phil Goff announced the plan yesterday, hoping to capitalise on complaints of a lacklustre Budget last week by trumping National with a policy he said could create up to $22 billion a year in new business. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024334

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key standing in front of the Spring Creek mine, which is boarded up. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Bill English, is in a mine cart labelled, 'Return to surplus 2014-2015', which is racing backwards down the mine shaft. English asks Key for help, and Key continues making his speech, discouraging wild financial predictions. Refers to the loss of 225 jobs at the Spring Creek coal mine, part of the state owned enterprise, Solid Energy. (Stuff.co.nz, 26 Oct 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024340

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key being filmed standing in front of a green screen, so his image is projected onto a scene of the yellow brick road, with jobs hanging from trees. A computer in the foreground says, 'A Hollywood production.' Refers to the Prime Minister's recent trip to Hollywood, and the government's claims that 3000 New Zealanders secured jobs with Warner Brothers on the Hobbit movies after the Government changed the law defining what constitutes a contract worker. (New Zealand Herald, 1 Oct 2012) 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-0021473

Description: Shows a Frenchman with a string of onions round his neck carrying a pig on a bicycle and two Kiwis rushing to a departure lounge at the airport desperate to get to Australia. Context: Austerity measures in Europe are reflected in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020188

Description: Prime Minister John Key and Minister of Finance Bill English stand on top of the Beehive and shout at a struggling line of people down below. Key shouts 'Onwards and upwards' and English yells through a megaphone 'Fewer, faster, better'. Context: Refers to New Zealand's currant economic climate. There is a push to slim down the public service by cutting services and jobs. There is also a determination to get people off benefits and into work. There is criticism about insufficent numbers of jobs and a lack of emphasis on job creation. 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-0020408

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key carrying a tray of the nation's silver. Cartoon is accompanied by an ode about the selling of New Zealand's assets to 'global money moguls'. Context: National government is intent on taking the controversial route of selling assets to help shore up the economy. 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-0021197

Description: Prime Minister John Key tells Finance Minister Bill English that he would be happier getting rid of ACT leader John Banks than banking Dotcom's income. Context: John Banks received a donation from Kim Dotcom, an internet millionaire, during his campaign for the Auckland supercity mayoralty in 2010 but declared it as anonymous in his campaign returns. He has also been caught out on several occasions being less than truthful and has become somewhat of a liability. Kim Dotcom has given many donations to political parties and other groups. 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-0020161

Description: The cartoon sees Prime Minister John Key as a string puppet which represents 'Qld International' and 'Money mates'. He is being manipulated to say 'Strategic assets!!! Stop me & buy some!!' Context: The cartoon suggests links between John Key and some of the most powerful global bankers including Goldman Sachs. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018053

Description: A voter points out to an MP that 'After all, we only ever ask you to do two things... Pay for everything, and stop spending!' Context - the problem for the government of managing the budget. 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-0022398

Description: A reporter asks representatives of various countries why they are prepared to spend so much money on hosting the Olympics. The man from the UK says it will ensure future prosperity, the men from Greece and Spain agree that it didn't work for them and the New Zealander agrees that it didn't work for New Zealand either. Context: The UK is about to host the Olympics in London, Greece and Spain are both struggling with financial crisis and New Zealand after the 2011 Rugby World Cup doesn't seem to be so much better off either. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019955

Description: A crowd of people are seeking knowledge about the future from an ancient soothsayer wearing a wolf's head who represents 'Treasury'. The soothsayer admits confusing the liver and the spleen as he examines the entrails of a kiwi that represents the 'NZ economy'. Context: Treasury has lowered its growth forecasts from 3.4 per cent to 3 per cent for 2013 and warned of cuts to Government revenue as the European crisis rumbles on. (Stuff - 5 December 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018658

Description: A young woman stands with her trolley at the check-out counter in a supermarket. The checkout woman holds a card and says 'Sorry love, Ms Bennett's card won't cover the fags or the 6-pack And to be on the safe side I'd put the wine biscuits and brandy snaps back as well'. Context: The government plans to introduce a welfare payment card as part of its benefit reforms. Social Development Minister Paula Bennett is refusing to rule out extending the Government's newly proposed welfare payment card to adult beneficiaries. The payment cards to about 2600 young beneficiaries are intended to ensure their benefits are spent on essentials. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018594

Description: Text reads 'Some cost-saving suggestions for these tight times'. The first suggestion is that we 'Thin out our milk with lemonade'* - it'll go much further and the kids will love it'. The second suggestion is to 'Share your Rugby World Cup expenses' and below are two men squeezed into a single All Black jersey. Context: The high price of milk and the high price of the new All Black jersey made by Adidas and costing a very high price. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018338

Description: The words 'Gobbledegook Awards' appears across the top of the cartoon. A man stands at a lectern presenting awards and says 'The grand prize for the most convoluted logic of the year... ... Kiwirail!.. For not putting jobs Hillside's way because Hillside doesn't have enough work!!!' Below are three little men chatting; the first says 'P'raps the guvmint will help us if we change our name'; the second says 'Yeah! How 'bout Hillside Film Studio?' and the third says 'Or Hillside Stadium?' Context - KiwiRail will go ahead with its decision to cut up to 44 jobs at its Hillside Workshops in South Dunedin. Maritime Transport Union organiser John Kerr said the job cuts "flew in the face'' of a month-long consultation period with union delegates. The following quotation appears to be what the cartoon refers to... KiwiRail chief executive Jim Quinn said, "It is a fact that the size of the Hillside workforce has always changed according to the amount of work available and the workload there has decreased due to the completion of projects including carriage construction work for Auckland and Wellington." (www.nzherald.co.nz 14 July 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018541

Description: Two men have come upon a man who has thrown himself from a window and is now in a bad way on the ground. One of the observers says he thinks it is the exporter from upstairs and the other is annoyed because he had 'wanted to ask him what he thought the U.S. downgrade would do to our dollar!' Context: Clearly the exporter has made very clear what he thinks the US downgrade will do to our dollar - he has killed himself. In early August Standard & Poor's announced that it had lowered the United States' long-term credit rating to AA-plus from a triple A. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).