Political Cartoons 2024
Cartoon depicts PM Chris Luxon loading rocks into a giant glass jar with large rocks labelled cuts, auterity, unemployment, tax cuts 4 landlords,tax cuts, while smaller stones are labelled wages, climate, housing, poverty, health, evs,c ost of living. Luxon: "i'm gonna chunk down the big rocks & leave the pebbles till after delivering the deliverables ( refers to promised tax cuts on many large rocks).
Cartoon depicts Minister for Local Government Simeon Brown driving a large robotic mech with guns labelled 'regulatory tools' stamping on burning signs labelled '3 waters' and threatening a building labelled 'Councils'. Brown: "It's local water done my way".
Cartoon depicts a bare construction site with topsoil all scraped into a huge pile labelled WELFARE STATE. A developer's sign reads: 'AUSTERITY DOWNS - A NAF DEVPT. '
PM Chris Luxon driving a bulldozer: "HUGE ACHIEVEMENT. IN 100 DAYS WE'VE SCRAPED OFF ALL THAT ANNOYING TOPSOIL." Refers to first 100 days of the new government agenda of cancelling many of the previous governments labour, social and environmental measures.
Cartoon depicts "PUT IT ALL ON BLUE!" Says Nicola Willis at a giant roulette table representing the economy.
( Blue square is labelled TAX CUTS. The croupier puts all her chips on to blue )
Other squares without chips are labelled
WAGES
FERRIES
HOSPITALS
SCHOOLS
BENEFITS
3 WATERS
ENVIRONMENT
MAORI
A.T. RAIL
SMOKE FREE
Cartoon depicts Luxon & Willis in a huge castle with flags looking down on a small family of peasants. Luxon: "Love to help but feeling quite fragile..."
Cartoon depicts a bbq with a Chris Luxon onion, a David Seymour chipolata sausage and a Winston Peters sausage finding the bbq hot plate too hot. "Not full respect" says Luxon. "More respect!" says Winston Peters. "Hot! Hot! OW! OW! they all cry. BBQ brand name is 'Kiwi Cooker Waitangi BBQ'
Cartoon depicts the historic signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, with an additional appearance by David Seymour who is crawling from under the table to add an additional section to the treaty document. "Subject to any future changes that a tiny minority might want for any reason at all - Ka-Ching!" Title: The Treaty Reneger'