New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme

Date: 2009

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0012393

Description: Cappucino Dreams. In the first of four frames Finance Minister Bill English carrying his briefcase and a load of banknotes labelled 'housing subsidy', explains that he must work here in Wellington even though his home is in Southland. In the second frame his children are shown learning the ways of commerce in the school tuckshop; in the third frame Bill English explains that our experts have been able to postpone climate change until the farmers and carbon burners have made their profits and in the last frame he is shown arriving at his Karori home with the Beehive in the distance and 'Southland' on the gate. Refers to Bill English's embarrassing struggle with his Karori houng subsidy, and to the New Zealand's ETS strategy, a deal that has been stitched up between the National government and the Maori Party without the Labour Party that has resulted in taxpayers subsidizing big business and farmers for the next four years. (until 2013) The deal between the two parties provides that the new emissions trading scheme (ETS) will halve the cost of energy increases to consumers but polluting industries will have an easier ride and longer to adjust through taxpayer subsidies. Published in Presto Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0012908

Description: The cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key and Co-leader of the Maori Party Pita Sharples slamming a door on 'Treaty settlements' and John Key breathing a sigh of relief. Refers to the statement made by Nick Smith the Environment Minister that 'Treaty settlements need to be full and final, and Government's need to have the flexibility to respond to new issues like climate change without it reopening Treaty settlements'. MG Business Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014455

Description: Shows Minister for Climate Change issues Nick Smith on the phone asking for advice from 'Your Worship' (Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin) and 'Mr Harland' (CEO of the Dunedin City Council) about how to push 'this ETS thing through against the public's wishes and reason'. Nick Smith thinks that the way Peter Chin and the Dunedin City Council got their way in the building of the new Forsyth Barr Stadium against great opposition led by a group calling itself 'Stop the Stadium' means that they should be able to advise him about how to get people to accept the need for increased prices because of the ETS. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012872

Description: The cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key having a romantic evening of dancing with Co-leader of the Maori Party Tariana Turia. Master of Ceremonies and Minister for the Environment Nick Smith calls for dancers to take their partners for the 'ETS Ridiculously Quickstep'. Refers to New Zealand's struggle to develop an effective ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) and the fear that speed will corrupt the outcome. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012877

Description: Environment Minister Nick Smith points to his 'Emissions Trading Scheme Plan A, and tells Prime Minister John Key that it certainly won't save the world 'but it should see us through to Copenhagen...' Refers to the Copenhagen climate change conference to be held December 2009 and to the passing by New Zealand of an ETS that according to the cartoon will hold us in good stead for the Copenhagen conference only. Critics suggest that the reason the PM is not attending the conference is that he has nothing to offer. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012795

Description: A woman complains that spending an extra $110 billion is not her idea of getting any change. (In a second version she says spending $110 billion is the perfect way to combat getting any change!) Text above states that government plans to combat climate change will add $110 billion more than expected to New Zealand's debt. Refers to the select committee report into National's proposals to change the Emissions Trading Scheme that says Treasury now estimates that proposals to allow much higher allocations of free carbon credits to big polluters will increase government debt by 13-17 per cent of gross domestic product by 2050. National's proposed model would allow big polluters - such as Rio Tinto, which runs the aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point in Southland - to increase emissions. It also pushes back the date for the full phase of free carbon credits to big polluters, and delays the introduction of agriculture, which accounts for about half New Zealand's emissions, from 2013 to 2015. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0012957

Description: Against a blazing sun and a parched landscape three members of the Federated Farmers stand staring glumly at a tractor representing 'Fart tax' that lies rusting in a field of grass. A poster that reads 'Thieving tax hungry socialist government' leans against the tractor. One of the farmers holds a newspaper with a headline reading 'E.T.S. coming' and another wistfully remembers the 'good old days'. Refers to the resistance of the Federated Farmers to the notion that farmers as the producers of half of New Zealand's emissions should be liable to a good share of taxation to pay for them in New Zealand's ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme). Published in Farmer's Weekly Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014684

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Refers to New Zealand's launching of the main elements of our ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) in July of 2010. The politician makes a speech warning power companies not to use the Emissions Trading Scheme as an excuse toput up prices. An adviser warns the politician that the public is not going to like these cuts in services and so the politician suggests that they blame the cuts on ETS. A great example of expediency. 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: 2009

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017621

Description: A very cheerful man is cooking huge amounts of meat and sausages on a barbecue in his back garden. The neighbour holds up a newspaper with a heading reading 'ETS laws' and 'fires' with a cross and 'trees' with a tick. He says 'I've counteracted the carbon pollution by planting 50 marijuana plants behind the shed. Context - Attempts to counteract the effects of global warming by offsetting carbon emissions with tree planting. Published in Whangarei Report Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 22 June 2010

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000584

Description: Photographs of a protest against the Emissions Trading Scheme, taken 22 June 2010 by Dylan Owen. The photographs show protesters marching from Civic Square, Wellington, to Parliament grounds via Lambton Quay. Arrangement: Images were originally in a folder labelled 'ETS Protest Wellington' within the folder 'Wellington Protests June to December 2010' Quantity: 35 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012819

Description: The cartoon shows shows a cow that represents 'Federated Farmers' commenting 'Bovine excrement!' as it stands beneath text reading 'EMISSION IMPOSSIBLE' (actually 'Mission Impossibe'). Text at the top of the cartoon reads 'DisAgree-culture' (wordplay on 'agriculture'). Refers to the view taken by Federated Farmers that farmers should (as in Australia) be left out of the Emissions Trading Scheme despite Climate Change Minister Nick Smith's opposition. A Sustainability Council report has suggested households would bear half the total cost under the amended ETS during its first five years, while accounting for about a fifth of all emissions. Farmers would gain a $1.1 billion subsidy and pay an amount equal to about 2 per cent of their fair share of the bill during the period up to 2012. Large emitters would gain a subsidy worth close to $500 million, the Sustainability Council report said but Business New Zealand is rejecting claims that farms and businesses will get a long term subsidy from households under proposed emissions trading legislation. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0012854

Description: A polar bear stands on an ice floe staring at another polar bear on a distant floe. He wishes that they had an Emissions Trading Scheme'. Refers to global warming and the effect this having in the polar regions and to the adoption of trading schemes by various countries including New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014669

Description: The cartoon shows a boat race between an Australian and New Zealand crew. Text reads that as the 'crew spoke of closing the gap on our Trans Tasman rivals, deckhand Smith decided to throw out a sea anchor'. 'Deckhand Smith' is Nick Smith Minister for the Environment, who is throwing an 'ETS' anchor into the sea. Refers to the fact that New Zealand starts paying for the Emissions Trading Scheme from 1st July and 'closing the gap' between New Zealand's and Australia's economy was one of the prime minister's election promises. Power prices are already on the rise and fuel prices are set to increase as transport fuels and industry enter the scheme on 1st July. Increased ACC levies also come into play. Nick Smith says he has been advised the country's carbon dioxide emissions will reduce by 19 million tonnes by 2012. He says it will allow the country to meet its Kyoto Protocol targets and not have to pay for excess emissions. Geoff Bertram of Victoria University's Climate Change Research Institute says New Zealand's emissions are not going to fall. He also says that taxpayers are paying for the government to gloat to the rest of the world about its emissions trading scheme. He says it is just a money go round with those handling the transactions clipping the ticket. The cartoon relates to the fact that Australia has not as yet got an ETS. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0012898

Description: The cartoon shows two cans of paint; the first is called 'Kiwi greenwash E.T.S. - extra thin coat' and the second shows the back of the can with instructions about 'Prep - run down other carbon taxes, Dry time - stays wet forever, Coverage - big business agriculture, and Wash-up - costly and no earthly use'. Refers to New Zealand's ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) and criticisms of it. There is a view that leaving agriculture and big business out of the equation for several years as well as other aspects of the scheme will achieve nothing in the end except a large tax burden for the public. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0014687

Description: The cartoon shows a car representing 'ETS' driving along a road in an empty landscape. The driver wonders whether 'we have saved the planet yet'. Refers to New Zealand's launching of the main elements of our ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) in July of 2010. Some critics object on the grounds that it will not help our economy but opposing critics say it is not much more than window-dressing and will not achieve a lot in terms of real reduction of emissions. This cartoon suggests that these people using their car to drive a long distance don't understand the difficulties of reducing carbon emissions. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012865

Description: The cartoon shows a press conference that is being addressed by Prime Minister John Key and Co-leader of the Maori Party Pita Sharples. Pita Sharples holds a rope that is attached to the nose of the PM by a ring. A questioner from the floor asks about charges that the tail is wagging the dog because of the numerous concessions being made to the Maori Party in return for its support in getting the Emissions Trading Scheme through the House. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0012378

Description: In the first cartoon Prime Minister, John Key, and Co-leader of the Maori Party, Pita Sharples, drive past leader of the Labour Party, Phil Goff, enveloping him in clouds of noxious fumes from their battered old four-wheel drive. A label stuck to the back of the vehicle reads 'Emissions deal' and Pita Sharples leans out of the window and congratulates Phil Goff on walking because it is 'better for the environment'. Refers to the deal about managing emissions that was stitched up between the National government and the Maori Party without the Labour Party. In the lower frame a second cartoon shows three gang members with 'H' on their patches marching past a signpost that points to 'Whanganui, Whaikato, Whaitomo, Whellington, Whestland and Mt Chook'. Refers to the row about putting the 'H' into the name 'Wanganui' and also to the regulation that forbids the wearing of gang patches in the city of Wanganui. The Mayor of Wanganui, Michael Laws, wants the status quo maintained in the spelling of 'Wanganui' and he is responsible for the gand patch ban. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017648

Description: Two children sit on the steps outside their house watching smoke pouring out of the glasshouse. One of them says 'Our greenhouse gases would sure upset the Emission Trading Scheme budget... Grandad smokes his pipe in there'. Context - The main elements of New Zealand's ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) were introduced in July of 2010. Some critics object on the grounds that it will not help our economy but opposing critics say it is not much more than window-dressing and will not achieve a lot in terms of real reduction of emissions. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0014689

Description: The cartoon shows Minister for Climate Change kneeling in a howling storm and trying to light a candle that represents New Zealand's 'Emission Trading Scheme' with a match. He smiles as comments on how good it feels to be 'doing our bit in the fight against global warming'. Refers to New Zealand's launching of the main elements of our ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) in July of 2010. Some critics object on the grounds that it will not help our economy but opposing critics say it is not much more than window-dressing and will not achieve a lot in terms of real reduction of emissions. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017651

Description: A man arrives at an office that deals with 'E.T.S. credit abd debit claims' and stands smiling smugly at the counter. One of the officials says to another in worried tones 'Says he's entitled to $25 because he planted a tree. And is willing to pay $12.50 because he chopped it down for firewood. So he's here to claim the difference'. Context - The man is being both a buyer (of carbon credits), paying a charge for polluting, and a seller, being rewarded for having reduced emissions. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).