Political Cartoons 2024
Cartoon shows workers installing rooftop solar on a home.
Words:
THE REVOLUTION WILL BE SOLAR - POWERED
THE FUTURE IS
• DISTRIBUTED
• RESILIENT
• EQUITABLE
• AFFORDABLE
PLUS A MASSIVE MIDDLE-FINGER TO PRICE-GOUGING ENERGY COMPANIES
Shows one worker holding up a hand 'giving the bird'
Refers to energy companies under-investing in solar and renewable energy.
Cartoon depicts David Seymour's bill to renegotiate the Treaty Of Waitangi to remove special rights of Maori as a giant millstone tied around his neck. The mill stone is labelled ‘Treaty Principles’. Seymour is tied around the neck of PM Chris Luxon, who is tied around the neck of Winston Peters. They are all sinking towards the sea floor. Seymour: “I tell you this is going down a treat with our supporters"
Cartoon depicts seven sinking ships torpedoed by a submarine labelled 'NAF' ( National, Act, NZFirst parties ). In the conning tower Nicola Willis: "We're saving so much money!" Captain Chris Luxon: "Full steam ahead and damn the cost of torpedoes." Sunk ships labelled: Irex Hybrid Ferries, Hopspitals, Public Service, 3 waters low cost water scheme, light rail,public housing, hospitals. Title: 'Sunk Cost Fools At Sea'. ( Rhyming with 'sunk cost fallacy' which does not apply to the above. ) Refers to coalition government cancelling successful projects mid way through, thus wasting billions of dollars.
Cartoon depicts finance minister Nicola Willis throwing cash into the path of a large fan labelled 'Blow'. "Lolly Scramble!" she shouts. The tax cuts blow over the heads of a family straight into a vent lablelled "Suck'.
Cartoon depicts a brightly coloured rainbow pony teletubby world.
Title: 'Simon Watts Magical Thinking Climate Fixy Dust Fairyland'
Sun: "FOREIGN MARKETS ( heart ) YOU"
Environment Minister Simon Watts smoking an hubbly-bubbly hooker pipe labelled 'TCHNO FIX' says: "NO PAIN…”
Wealthy businessman'on top of a' 'HOPIUM’ factory pumping yellow money smoke into the air.: “...ALL GAIN!”
Fish: "THIS WATER IS TOO CLEAN.”
Kiwi: "WE DON'T NEED TO CHANGE ...EVER!"
Farmer driving ute full of money: "AND WE'LL ALL BE RICH!"
Cartoon depicts a line of cadets at a military-style boot camp marching up a hill, off a cliff and falling into a brick chimney hole labelled 'Prison'. Children's Minister Karen Chhour MP is dressed in military garb: "Left-right, left-right, left-right, right-right,right-right". PM Chris Luxon: "Yes, we are doing the same thing over & over but these are exactly the results we expect"
Refers to: Minister can't guarantee abuse won't occur at controversial boot camps - '"It will be less than a week after the Royal Commission of Inquiry into abuse in state and faith-based care was released, which includes details of abuse in boot camps in the 1990s." ( https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/523148/minister-can-t-guarantee-abuse-won-t-occur-at-controversial-boot-camps )
Cartoon depicts a scene from the old woman who lived in a shoe story by Mother Goose, except it is the minister of housing, Chris Bishop ushering a pensioner into the garden behind 'Boomer Villas' where a boot stands densely populated by children. "I have the perfect solution for the housing crisis, Granny." "Mooving in with your grand kids." Refers to National's plan to allow free reign to the building of granny flats.
Cartoon depicts PM Chris Luxon & finance minister Nicola Willis in medieval costume throwing rotten food at a woman in stocks labelled 'Vilify me I'm a jobseeker'. Willis: The unemployed will always have work - keeping wages low, other workers desparate, and absorbing targeted food waste assistance."
Cartoon depicts the % of public housing of New Zealand (3.4%) compared with rates of OECD (7%) and Netherlands (34%), forming a bar chart. Housing minister Chris Bishop (National) is distressed, exclaiming "OMG We have way too much public housing. That's a crisis for private landlords."
Cartoon depicts duck shooters in hides upn a lake shooting ducks in the form of PM Chris Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis "Duck!" yells Luxon. OECD and every other economist +Biz +CTU blast away merrily. Refers to massive borrowing for tax cuts.
Cartoon depicts an dilapidated steam train reversing at high speed along washed out rail track and falling into empty space. Riding a coal cart is Shane Jones (NZFirst) waving a lump of coal - Dr Strangelove Slim Pickens style - shouting "Black is the new green!" David Seymour (ACT) waves a lantern towards the abyss. Chris Luxon (National) "You're right, backwards is way faster" Nicola Willis (National) looks towards a carriage ( labelled 'Polluters". ) of rich villiains. A sign bedside the rails reads 'Fast Track' points in the opposite direction.
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'