Fraser, John Malcolm (Rt Hon), 1930-2015

Date: 1970 - 1982

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].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-565/585

Description: Includes cartoons about: Japanese may give New Zealand trade opportunities; "First foxtrot in Frankfurt"; live sheep exported to the Middle East; Mr Tizard (Minister of Finance) pledges support for poorer nations; Arab wants to "buy New Zealand for Christmas"; trade negotiators who resemble spies; farmer dreaming of 50cents per lamb; Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser tries to impress NZ Prime Minister Rob Muldoon; Australia befriends and then swallows New Zealand; slaughtering sheep the Iranian way; live sheep exports side-step the EEC complaint about hygienic wrapping of meat; Russia's retaliation against the expulsion of Soviet diplomat; New Zealand's ability to fulfill its ANZUS commitments to defend the USA; Australian meat scandal - unconventional animal types cooked (eg horse, zebra, mammoth, snake); alligator meat from Australia posing as beef; the Falklands crisis; Britain amazed at New Zealand's enthusiastic support in the Falklands War; politicians to fight in the Falklands (rumour); voluntary euthaniasia versus compulsory euthanasia in the Falklands; re-opening of trade with Chile; where is the Third World? Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Quantity: 21 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 420 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1982

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison 1932- :Two cartoons on Australian issues published in the National Business Review on 25 January 1978 and 14 June 1982.

Reference: H-660-002

Description: New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon is trying to paddle a canoe, labelled CER, which is in danger of sinking under the weight of his passenger, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, who is in the guise of a kangaroo. A romantic setting is provided by a harpist playing in the bow of the canoe, and moonlight on the lake. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies A5 size photocopy. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy.

Date: 1978 - 1982

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by various cartoonists

Reference: A-312-3-001/018

Description: Cartoons collected for Ian Grant's book "The Unauthorized Version" This box contains one folder of cartoons by W. Blomfield from the "New Zealand Observer" and "Freelance" from 1890 to 1899 (A-312-1), one folder of cartoons by Angus from 1939 (A-312-2), one folder of cartoons by Bill Paynter (A-312-3), one folder of cartoons by Tom Scott (A-312-4), one folder of cartoons by W. A. Bowring (A-312-5), one folder of cartoons by `BLO' (A-312-6), one folder of cartoons by Waite from the "Taranaki Daily Times" (1948 and 1949) and "Otago Daily Times" from 1949 (A-312-7) and one folder of cartoons by Ashley Hunter from the "New Zealand Graphic" and "Ladies Journal" (A-312-8). Physical Description: Sizes vary, 14 newspaper clippings and 4 photocopies.

Date: 1980

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-609

Description: The three scenes in this cartoon each illustrate some aspect of closer trans-Tasman co-operation. In the top left it is 'co-operation in finance and industry'. Two customs officers are looking at a computer on a table belonging to a passenger. One is saying to the other "he says it's a computer to monitor New Zealand investments, supplied by a big Australian investment organisation called the 'St George's Rugby League Club'". In the lower left the subject is 'the most favourable treatment possible for each other's citizens'. In the scene Australian rugby players are trying to decide whether they should let the All Blacks beat them. In the lower right the subject is 'frequent discussion and consultation on matters of common concern'. Muldoon is talking to Malcolm Fraser on the phone about the Melbourne Cup and New Zealanders concern about which horse to bet on. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, white gouache, letratone and crayon, 460 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1980

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-708

Description: The scene is the Minister of Transport's desk. Colin McLaughlin is asleep with his feet up on the desk. A 'do not disturb' sign hangs on the desk and he has been asleep for so long that cobwebs have formed on him. The tray on his desk is labelled 'pending' and 'for govt. consideration (some time)'. In the tray sits the '1979 Scott report recommending W'gton airport runway extension'. Extended Title - Coming to Wellington to discuss closer ties between Australia and New Zealand, the Australian P.M. had to land at Christchurch as the Wellington Airport runway is too short for Mr. Fraser's 707 aircraft Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone, white gouache and crayon, 445 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1981

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-774

Description: Shows Muldoon on a stage riding a unicycle labelled 'Commonwealth Summit'. He is juggling three balls called Mugabe, Ramphal and Fraser, and two rolled up paper scrolls called Gleneagles Agreement and Melbourne Declaration. At one side of the stage Bill Rowling is peering from behind the curtain. Refers to Muldoon's role in negotiating the Gleneagles Agreement about sporting contacts with South Africa. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, white gouache and crayon, 455 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1978 - 1982

By: Brockie, Robert Ellison (Dr), 1932-; National Business Review Ltd

Reference: H-660-001/002

Description: Two cartoons on Australian issues - air transport and communications, and CER. Quantity: 2 photocopy/ies A5 size. Physical Description: Two A5 size photocopies.

Date: [ca 1975-1989]

From: Minhinnick, Gordon, 1902-1992 :[111 original pencil and ink cartoons. 1930s-1980s]

Reference: C-171-079

Description: Preliminary sketch for a cartoon. Robert Muldoon is shown doing the limbo in three scenes, with several other men holding the limbo sticks and playing the drums. The drums are labelled O, A, and U [Organisation for African Unity] while the limbo pole is labelled "No sport contact with S.A.". Three figures look on, labelled Callaghan, Trudeau and Frazer [possibly Commonwealth Prime Ministers Malcolm Fraser, Pierre Trudeau and James Callaghan]. The title 'Spreadeagles' refers to the Gleneagles Agreement of 1977. Muldoon is shown as triumphant after successfully going under the limbo pole. Undated. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Spreadeagles Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 395 x 480 mm

Date: 1979

By: Friends of the Earth

Reference: Eph-D-INTERNATIONAL-1983-01

Description: A poster protesting the American-British collaboration in proliferating nuclear weapons. It shows US President Ronald Reagan with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in his arms, against a landscape with a nuclear mushroom cloud. The poster is a take-off of a film poster, and is said to be "an IMF [International Monetary Fund]picture". Screenplay is said to be by Kid Joseph, directed by Hank Kissinger (US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger), with music by Eddie Heath (former British Prime Minister Edward Heath). The "cast list" includes Ronnie Reagan, Maggie Thatcher, Mal Fraser, Al Haig, Caspar Weinberger and Piggy Muldoon. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print in red on yellow background, 627 x 440 mm.

Date: [1977?]

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

Reference: A-456-128

Description: Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicting a large Malcom Fraser, Australian Prime Minister, shaking hands with Robert Muldoon, New Zealand Prime Minister, while holding a boomerang in the other hand. Muldoon is drawn as a much smaller figure being lifted off the ground by Fraser. Muldoon has a tag labelled "ANZUS Treaty" tied around one of his fingers, and says "So you, Carter, and little old me take on Russia...?". Title caption reads "The Debriefing of Malcolm". Refers to relationships between Australia, New Zealand and the United States established by the ANZUS Treaty; and probably relates to Australian Prime Minister Malcom Fraser's visit to US President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink drawing, 120 x 196mm.

Date: 1978 - 1982

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: C-132-481/499

Description: Includes cartoons about Abraham Ordia of the South African Sports Council; Muldoon's generous budget for election year; a hypothetical meeting with President Jimmy Carter; Tom Skinner's preference to deal with Mr Gordon the Minister of Labour; his finding a home for the Black Power Gang; the rift with Malcolm Fraser the Australian Prime Minister; his trade agreement with Japan; his press releases; his promotion of Duncan McIntyre to Talboys' seat; his use of the "Dominion" as toilet paper. Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Quantity: 19 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1976

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-041

Description: This cartoon is set outside the Australia-NZ summit talks. A woman in a patched coat labelled NAFTA is outside the door. The official guarding the door is saying that he will ask the Australian Prime Minister if she can sit in Label on recto dated Tues 9/3/76 Other Titles - NAFTA Extended Title - Australia N.Z. Summit Talks Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon,320 x 390mm

Date: 1976

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-020

Description: This cartoon features Prime Minister Muldoon reading about the resignations or unpopularity of various prime ministers around the world, but doesn't see any difficulty in maintaining his own popularity. But, in the final scene he is enforcing the wage freeze to the anger of workers outside the window Label on recto dated Thur 26/8/76 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon, 305 x 385 mm

Date: 1976

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[27 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star between 1971 and 1978.]

Reference: A-130-030

Description: Cartoon shows three foreign leaders (Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, Gerald Ford of the United States and Malcolm Fraser of Australia) paddling in a tub labelled Indian Ocean. Robert Muldoon races towards the tub from the right, proclaiming "Room for one more!!" Other Titles - January Other Titles - Muldoon backs American bases over Indian Ocean. Muldoon comments on Indian Ocean Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 168 x 239 mm.

Date: 1973 - 1987

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: C-132-816/822

Description: Includes cartoons on New Zealand boycotts of French goods, selling "dirty" French postcards of nuclear explosions, the French burrowing from Paris to Mururoa and New Zealand, New Zealand proposal to the United Nations for a nuclear-free zone, PM Robert Muldoon siding with Australian PM Malcolm Fraser against anti-nuclear protesters, the confusion between rugby tests and nuclear tests, and a comparative study of disarmament in the USA and USSR. Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Inscriptions: Recto - Signed by artist. Quantity: 7 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1976

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

Reference: C-132-821

Description: Shows Prime Minister Robert Muldoon as a joey inside the puch of kanagroo, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. In the right foreground two kiwi are standing. One is sobbing to the other who holds a sign saying "Nuclear-free". This relates to the stance of some New Zealanders on the nuclear issue and Robert Muldoon's disagreement with this stanceand's relationship with Australia. Piglet and Kanga are characters from the children's books of A A Milne. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed; Mat recto - bottom right - Rejected From the mat inscription, it appears that this cartoon may not have been published in the Dominion Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, image 295 x 420 mm, on paper 385 x 490 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1977

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-129

Description: Shows the Trans Tasman Lookout on a very windy day. From the direction of Australia blows a gale indicating a Fraser victory; Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon and Brian Talboys, Minister of Foreign Affairs, with their jackets off, grin with satisfaction and face into the wind while further back on the lookout, huddled into their jackets and with their backs to the wind are two Labour Party politicians, former Prime Minister, Bill Rowling and Arthur Faulkner, Minister of Defence. Refers to the Australian election victory of the Liberal Party under Malcolm Fraser in 1977 which lent balast to the New Zealand National victory in 1975. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 320 x 450 mm

By: Blomfield, John Collis, 1878-1942; New Zealand observer (Newspaper); Brockie, Robert Ellison (Dr), 1932-; Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: A-344-177/185

Description: Includes: J C Blomfield. Hon George Fowlds and the Mount Albert picnic party at Milford Sound. Observer 9.2.1907. (Fowlds and others aboard the "Hinemoa" at Milford Sound) David Low. "A Fowl joke" Spectator. 17.9.1908 (Fowlds as a rooster on top of a box labelled YMCA) Cover from "The Fowlds papers; a calendar of letters relating to politics, by Frank Rogers". With J C Blomfield cartoon - The Grey Lynn Election "Kiss Georgie". Observer 18.8.1906. David Low. "A ministry in kilts" (MPs in kilts). Spectator 14.1.1909. J C Blomfield. "The gathering of the clans - Sir Joseph Ward's new ministry - England nowhere. Observer 16.1.1909 (Shows MPs in kilts and Maori dress) J C Blomfield. "Professor" The Hon George Fowlds. Students celebrate but he caps the lot. Observer 25.5.1926. (Fowlds in academic dress) Cartoon showing the Auckland University and Auckland Society taking away pieces of land cut from the cake by the ministerial knife. (undated) "Moving to the front in file". Cartoon showing equerries in livery. Bob Brockie. "We propose to continue our relations on an equal footing". NAFTA, Robert Muldoon and Malcolm Fraser. (Fraser as a kangaroo with Muldoon inside his pouch) Quantity: 9 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, sizes varying up to 297 x 219 mm.

Date: 1982

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by various cartoonists

Reference: A-312-3-002

Description: Shows a bridge under construction with scaffolding and tools scattered around. The two sides of the bridge (Australia and New Zealand) do not quite meet and there is a gap in the middle. Over the gap is a large table (Closer Economic Relations) where Muldoon and Malcolm Fraser are talking. Muldoon is slamming his fist down on the table. Refers to relations between New Zealand and Australia. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1982

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DX-003-086

Description: A kangaroo and a kiwi are sitting up in bed together under a blanket labelled CER, both puzzling over what to do. New Zealand prime minister Robert Muldoon peers through a keyhole at them and tells Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser that 'I think they're getting the message'. Exhibition caption reads - Perhaps a marriage of convenience at the beginning, CER was to blossom into a long-standing, stable and mutually beneficial relationship. At the end of 1982, for New Zealand prime minister Muldoon particularly, CER was an economic lifeline at a time when the economy was performing badly and job-creating major new industries, promised during the 1981 election campaign, looked more and more unlikely. 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. Added to exhibition when sent to Australia in March 2003. Extended Title - CER. Newly married. I think they're getting the message. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).