Listener Cartoons 1998
Cartoon depicts a large yacht sailing the Hauraki Gulf with rich men drinking champagne. "Tax cuts - such a fantastic incentive to greater investment and productivity!" 5 Dec 1998
Cartoon depicts a pagan ceremony with a priestess ( Jenny Shipley ) holding two bloody knives before a large, angry skull-like stone idol (the Market ) surrounded by skulls. A volcano is erupting in the background. "Who among us has yet to make sacrifice?" The crowd of peasants point to each other. 17 Oct 1998
"WHAT WE NEED IN THIS COUNTRY IS STRONG LEADERSHIP ...
CRUEL LEADERSHIP.
BRUTAL LEADERSHIP
PITILESS LEADERSHIP
DAMN M.M.P. "
Strong Leadership - right-wingers crave domination by strong, first past the post style government,( cruel, harsh, inhumane) leadership. Listener 15 Aug 1998
Cartoon depicts 4 t-shirts with slogans:
I'VE BEEN BEFORE THE PRIVILEGES COMMITTEE
THIS SPACE TO LET
JUST INCORRECT
M.P. FOR THE INTERNET
Title: 'T-SHIRTS OF THE FAR RIGHT '
Listener 6 June 1998
Cartoon depicts Helen Clark stepping up via the face down form of Jenny Shipley to a pedestal labelled 'NZ's first elected female PM'. "Thanks for removing gender as a issue, Jenny." 11 Dec 1999
Cartoon depicts 6 panels with a heading 'Reform - it never goes quite far enough - some sectors WE would like to see broken up and subject to real competition...
• BREWERY GIANTS ( Storage vats of $ )
• MEGA LAW FIRMS "YOU'RE ALL GOING TO BE APPOINTED IMEETING AS COMPANY DIRECTORS TO PUBLIC UTILITIES " ( massed partners )
• TREASURY ( Robots )
• NZ CRICKET TEAM (Wickets taken out )
• BUSINESS ROUND TABLE "FROM NOW ON IT'S THE BUSINESS OCCASIONAL TABLES. "
• AUSTRALIA "HAVE SOME WATERFRONT REFORM YA SMUG BASTARDS." ( Says map of NZ to Australia )
Refers to quote from Guardian 1981? "It has been suggested that the Government (UK) is hooked by Prof J Kenneth Galbraith's advice "Please, whatever you do, don't give up, or Milton Friedman will be able to say it would have worked if only you had kept going." Listener 9 May 1998
Cartoon depicts an man reading a newspaper and outraged by the headline 'Public servants sell data to credit agencies' He: "How dare they profit from selling other people's private information!" Frame 2 reveals he is the CEO of 'Newscartel'. Man 2: "that's our job" Man 1: "Exactly!"
Cartoon depicts an election asteroid heading for PM Jenny Shipley and her legislative deregulation of ACC deregulation, ID Cards, Producer Boards half-built messy construction site for the Shipley Years Memorial. 28 Nov 1998
Cartoon depicts a bloated tick labelled 'Expatriate Profits' on the back of a starved cow with markings showing a map of New Zealand.
Cartoon depicts businessmen rifling through the pockets of a government minister extracting cash. 15 may 1998
A female sprite flies over Wellington with a horn of plenty disgorging an unlimted deluge of golden coins over a crowd of politicians and bureaucrats who are catching the boon in upturned inverted umbrellas.
"Remember you are power companies - competing lowering prices - no gouging consumers" - says Max Bradford as he is about to unlock redoeo gates with ferocious bulls panting to charge out into the arena like wounded bulls. ( 24 April 1998 )
"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.
