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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.
September
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"
August
Cartoon depicts gold medal winner in kayak cross at Paris olympics Finn Butcher licking his lips while being offered a burger as a prize at a New Zealand fan zone. 'NZ red meat prooves a winner at Paris' - news.
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 a rural business owner leaving his packing shed, key in hand, as power bills blow by in the breeze. "Last person out turn off the lights. I'm going to get solar." Buildings have 'Closed' signs displayed. Other figures in the distance are heading into the sunset. Refers to power company charges mulitplying by more than three times over winter months.
Cartoon depicts an older super-heroes flying over a city. Male: "As a super-ager my real super power is being able to message my friends." Article: 'Surprising new research into the habits of ‘super-agers’ - and the 12 signs of ageing'.
Cartoon depicts a doctor with his plump elderly patient who is smoking. Doctor: "Remarkable for your age. Either you are an outlier or an out and out liar." Refers to lying about age.
Cartoon depicts a climber seeking enlightenment from a bearded guru on a high mountain ledge. Guru" "my secret is lots of hills and meeting people."
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 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 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 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!"
"Fresh and eager for another year then" asks a man at the office to a recent arrival dressed for the beach carrying a cooler or chilly bin.
Cartoon depicts a meeting room office with a sales chart shaped like a zig zag. Man: "Sales have been normal."
July
Title: 'What you really look like when you're surfing the net.'
A nude, naked blindfolded man surfs the internet clicking on websites completely unaware he is being tracked by spies, scammers,hackers, IT professionals, snoopers, internet providers, software engineers, and sundry commercial corporate types.
"Just lie back and I will get a few photos to liven up my next powerpoint presentation" says a doctor holding a camera to a patient.
THE ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE :
Panel 1
"Ciao!"
At FOODBANK "Wait-there's more "
Panel 2
"Forget the penal rates boss, what I really want is the flexibility to work weekends."
Panel 3
Father of family: "Thank you Jenny Shipley,) for reducing the domestic purposes benefit and Saving my marriage."
Panel 4
Business Roundtable guy: "From my experience, the threat of bankruptcy | should help hospitals save money..ooops, I mean lives!"
Panel 5
Businessman to foreign minister Don McKinnon: "I'd love to buy a few million tons of your products-if only you had some nuclear bombs in your harbours."
Panel 6
Burglar: "The only reason I rob banks is because I have so many civil rights."
Pub 8.6.1992
Cartoon depicts many men out fishing along a river. Title reads: 'Royal Wedding Weekend'
Cartoon depicts a scooter with a roof. A woman comments to a cyclist "or you could buy a bigger coat."
Cartoon depicts a large SUV crossover vehicle parked on a sales lot. Salesman to female customer: "It crosses over into riot control."
Cartoon depicts a scuba diver sitting on a rock on the sea floor trying to solve a puzzle in a book. Cover for a supplement '50 Great Summer Puzzles' NZListener, December 2008
Cartoon depicts a scuba diver sitting on a rock on the sea floor trying to solve a puzzle in a book. Cover for a supplement '50 Great Summer Puzzles' NZListener, December 2008
Cartoon depicts chaotic scenes on the beach and in the sea, with minor differences between each frame.
Cartoon depicts a large well built beach surfer dude next to an umbrella sitting on a coolie bin / chilly bin working out a puzzle. A female of the species sits close by.
Cartoon depicts a lone snow boarder trying to solve a puzle as he flies down a ski slope.
Cartoon depicts a crypt under a church with sarcophagi where the floor tiles are coloured like a crossword.
Cartoon depicts the brain depicted as a maze. 'The mind of a puzzle editor'
Cartoon depicts a farmer driving a ute down a bumpy pot-holed country road towards a school. Hi dog and load are jumping and jarred into the air. Tow omen are atching fromm the verge. Woman: "Before anyone raises speed limits they'll need to repair all our dodgy roads." Refers to National governments plans to lift speed limits nationally, without regard to local community wishes.
Cartoon depicts a basketball game in which Prime Minister, John Key propels a woman into a basket attached to a pole labelled 'Australia'. The basket is labelled 'jobs'. Other job seekers await their turn. The 'hoist' is a common term in basketball for scoring. Here it refers to Government inaction on unemployment causing New Zealanders to leave for Australia, scoring not only jobs but higher wages. 2012
Cartoon depicts a ship run aground on the east coast of New Zealand, near Wairoa. It is spilling cheap imported maize over local growers crops. "Now they've flooded the damn market as well" cries a farmer. Refers to floods spoiling crops of vegetables and imports lowering prices for maize growers. Growers have no market for their product this season and are pondering their future as growers.
https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/news/grim-harvest-for-maize-grain-growers/
Cartoon depicts a room labelled 'Rich political donor support group' of sad elderly white men sitting in a semi-circle with one saying "I thought my money would buy me love and eternal gratitude". A group of rich political donors sitting in a circle in their support group. One of them is Owen Glenn who is embroiled in the problems around donations given to New Zealand First over which leader, Winston Peters, is being investigated for fraud. Owen Glenn says that he thought his money would buy him love and eternal gratitude. He has been snubbed by Prime Minister, Helen Clark, to whom he has also donated.
Cartoon depicts a bonfire of sticks reading 'surplus'. "stimulate that lot says finance minister Michael Cullen ( holding a flaming torch) to PM Helen Clark. She is dressed as Napoleon and he as a cavalry man. Refers to Labour economic stimulus as a downturn created by the GFC ripples through the New Zealand economy. The incoming National finance minister Bill English must face this.
"Woah there Speedy - slow down" cries snail John Key to turtle Helen Clark who is flying a tattered flag reading 'Carbon Trading Scheme'...2008
Cartoon depicts two border-collie farming dogs sitting on boxes in a la where a lab working is tanding. 'Working dog dna test - news'. A patchy-looking dog says "Apparently I'm well over the border from collie." Refers to
Massey Uni doing DNA tests on farm dogs to try and enhance working dog breeds.
Cartoon depicts Winston Peters Minister of Foreign Affairs and leader of NZ First. He holds a large notice that says 'No to China-NZ free trade and says "I would have asked for more baubles." Refers to Winston Peters' ambivalent attitude to New Zealand's free trade deal with China. As Minister of Foreign Affairs he is obliged to support it but at leader of NZ First he is critical, believing that China does better out of it than does New Zealand.
"Don't look around says National leader John Key to finance minister Bill English both carrying signs labelled 'Less Regulation' & 'Tax Cuts' as global financial system collapses behind them consisting of American banks such as AIG - Lehman Brothers - Merrill Lynch - Fannie Mae - Freddie Mac + greed + Wall Street... 20 September, 2008
