Political Cartoons

"Sure we're paid peanuts - if it was more newsreaders and politicians would do our job" says one monkey in a cage to another as they eat some peanuts.

"Don't look around says National leader John Key to finance minister Bill English both carrying signs labelled 'Less Regulation' & 'Tax Cuts' as global financiial system collapses behind them consisting of American banks such as AIG - Lehman Brothers - Merrill Lynch - Fannie Mae - Freddie Mac + greed + Wall Street...

"I love the blue one" says Prime Minister John Key about a plethora of increasing graphs - unemployment - underclass - wage gap - credit downgrade - prices - off to Oz - low growth while one blue graph labelled 'Key Poll'.

Man struggling to carry heavy buckets of slime labelled 'Vile' and 'Views' is saying "Must Show Everyone How Bad My Enemies Are" towards a fountain of slime with a Twitter logo.

"All we need to do to avoid global catastrophe is reduce subsidies for giant asteroids" proclaims a T-rex dinosaur to a group of fellow dinosaurs as one small mammal rushes for a hole as asteroids enter the atmosphere.

'National's $1bn Housing Investment' shows a prison building with narrow windows and the heads of inmates peeping out.

Cartoon,horsemen,apocalypse,death,disease,pestilence,conquest,famine,plague,policy,direction,right,wing,apocalyptic,Revelation,bible,politicians,politics,peasants,reform,Rogernomics,.."You have to admit - there's no problem defining their policy direction" comments one peasant to another as four horsemen of the apocalypse sweep humanity into the maws of death.

'Fear of Skimmers' - a woman labelled 'NZ Economy' stands tentatively before an automatic teller machine labelled 'Foreign-owned Banks' with a vacuum nozzle and a screen labelled 'fees' - 'rates' - 'profits'.

"At least tax cuts have put more money in our pockets, eh?" asks a well-dressed man to a woman as they walk down a street in the post-apocalyptic ruins of welfare - manufacturing - industry - health - infrastructure, education, etc

Wealthy rolling up their money as a funnell/megaphone to promote their views in the name of free speech.

Panel 1 - "man-made climate-change? Ha! What rot? Go back to school!" commands a conservative white male to two kids who reply "Ok dad..."

Panel 2- steam blows out the ears of the same conservative white male as he looks in a classroom window and realises his kids are being taught about the reality of climate change in science class.

Cartoon,justice,crimial,convictions,imprisonment,politician,law,billboard,poltical,campaigns,harsher,penalties,slogans,3-strikes,law andorder,platform,longer,sentences,..A political billboard reads 'Vote for longer sentences on billboards' while the face of a male poltician beams down belligerently.

Two politicians stand in a tree having chainsawed off limbs labelled hospitals nurses public service police leaving foliage for just those at the top - one privileged man happily says "Pruning is really helping growth up here"

Cartoon depicts a couple standing admiring a view of nature (mountains river etc) the man says "Enjoy it now, before election year drains all goodwill from the land then fills our ears with bitter discourse."..goodwill,goodwill,discourse,debate,conflict,controversy,mutual,animosity,outrage,anger,inflammatory,dispute,antipathy,arguement,discourse,partisan,

Stupid mammals whadda they know? Yeah! The climate has always changed! They're parroting the parrots" say the dinosaurs to amammal Greta Thunberg as a climate change asteroid approaches.

"Experts are divided on whether Rome is actually getting warmer" "This is a natural cycle - rise -decline- fall -sacking" "The alarmists have vested interests in aqueducts".says romans to an complacentemporer playing the lute or fiddle...Rome,Romans,fire,burning,global,warming,denier,denialism,climate,crisis,warnings,science,Nero,inaction,alarmist,

Cartoon,farming,spray,walk,erosion,cattle,pollution,inhumane,cruelty,feedlot,winter,stocking,agriculture,intensive,water,quality,cows,new zealand,fertiliser,effluent,..'Short Term Farming - spray - pray -and watch it run away' describes the practice of spraying fertiliser on pasture then over-stocking with cattle creating considerable run-off of effluent and agricultural chemicals.

"Hell - look at him - things must be really bad!" think two depressed -looking businessmen as they pass each other a dark blue cloud hovering over each...Subtitle; 'How Recessions Begin'

Cartoon,unfettered,capitalism,laissez-faire,Neoliberalism,deregulated,monetarists,monetarism,small state,deregulation,libertarians,.."Almost there" claims one male proponent of small government to another as he chisels away the bulk of government in the name of reform but is left with a very small sized sculpture of a dollar symbol.

Fast follower,snail,turtle,carbon,trading,scheme,Helen Clark,john Key,.."Woah there Speedy - slow down" cries snail John Key to turtle Helen Clark who is flying a tattered flag reading 'Carbon Trading Scheme'...2008

"We fear carbon taxes will render the planet uninbaitable for corporations" submits one frightened looking advocate among three representing big bussiness at a government hearing...carbon,taxes,levies,polluter,pays,corporation,big business,economy,climate,change,environment,AGW,mitigation,

"Maybe a digital tax would help?" asks an onlooker at sewage pouring out of pipes labelled 'US politics' Fake News Websites' 'Facebook' 'Twitter' 'Youtube' 4-Chan' 'Instagram' Reddit' 'Foreign states' creating a stew of conflict hate polarisation extremism and bigotry....digital tax,sewage,pipes,US politics,Fake News Websites,Facebook,'Twitter,Youtube,4-Chan,Instagram,Reddit,Foreign states,conflict,hate,polarisation,extremism,bigotry,white supremacist,terror,

John Key erects a sign 'Nationa's boot camp at the bottom of the cliff to be erected here' as a ambulance drives away from a cliff labelled 'Youth'.

Planet earth floats in space charred to a smoking cinder while an alien spaceship hovers nearby "What do you expect from carbon based lifeforms?" asks one crystalline alien of a companion...Planet,earth,space,cinder,alien,spaceship,carbon,lifeforms,crystalline,alien,companion,global,warming,climate,change,environmental,disaster,armageddon,

apps, Cartoon, metadata, poster, privacy, retro, social media, soviet, robots,automation, workplace, redundancy, digital, economy,unemployment..A retro-soviet-style propaganda poster shows man working under the threat of replacement by a robot - caption reads 'Sharing work'

Cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key and Minister of Finance, Bill English, in a canoe underwater. English is paddling a sunken canoe labelled NZ. The word deficit appears in the water below the canoe. Key is pulling on English, trying to bring the canoe up to the surface. English says, "We're on course to be out of this by 2016." Refers to comments by English that the government will not return to surplus before 2016. Key has stated that he'd like to see a government surplus sooner than that. (Radio New Zealand, 10 May 2013)

"You look like you need one of these" says Kelvin Davis to religous cult leader Brian Tamaki - indicating a slushie machine in a prison corridor.

Cartoon,apocalypse,end,world,politics,annihilation,cataclysm,catastrophe,devastation,holocaust,Armageddonapathy,voting,worry,abyss,apathetic ,.."Don't worry it's just politics" comments an apathetic man to a startled woman as behind him the earth collapses into the abyss of armageddon.

'If our homes were like social media accounts' is the title as a MAGA hat-wearing-gun-toting-redneck carrying a dead boar bursts through the front door of a house occupied by two shocked women and a man having coffee - bellowing "Hey- did I just hear someone mention gun control? Let me regurgitate a bellyful of bile and ignorance all over you and your friends."

"No terrorists here - only people who look like us." exclaims a military-style policeman to a spy as they contemplate a crowd of individuals made up of policemen, soldiers and occasional swastika-marked nazis all wearing similar para-military equipment and guns.

Shows Prime Minister John Key standing on a red carpet in front of the entrance to 'National's Casino Economy Conventions', surrounded by glitzy Las Vegas-style signs: 'Revisit the '80s', 'No social cost', '1000s of jobs', 'Buy shares', 'Mining', 'No environmental impact', and 'Last night: Aaron Gilmore in "Utu"'. Refers to a 35 year deal signed between the government and SkyCity Entertainment group. In return for operating a $400 million convention centre in Auckland, SkyCity will receive an exclusive casino licence. Aaron Gilmore is a former list MP for the National Party who resigned in May 2013, and vowed 'utu' or revenge on his enemies.--Alexander Turnbull Library

"News: storm uncovers old toxic dump - clean up begins" - Eroding froma river bank are the words - hate - spite - islamaphobia - racism - fascism - bigotry - prejudice - while an one of the clean up crew picking up swastikas - the words 'mass murder' and 'violence' says "Apparently just burying it all out of sight doesn't make it go away."..hate,spite,islamaphobia,racism,fascism,bigotry,prejudice,swastikas,mass,murder,violence,toxic,dump,christchurch,storm,river,rubbish,Fox,glacier,NZpol,revealed