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Cartoon depicts minister Chris Bishop throwing the RMA rule book across a stream to catchment groups - various people such as farmers, fishermen, scientists, environmentalists, local people, farmers reaching up to catch it.

Cartoon depicts a NZ farm Association man with a pen chasing a deer jumping over a fence. "hey - I need to verify your origin." Deer: "Trace this."

Cartoon depicts a bull called Farside Illustrious being inducted into the LIC Hall of Fame. LIC is the company that provides bull semen to dairy farmers and Illustrious has fathered more than 17,000 cows. Illustrious is on stage holding his award saying "I'd like to thank my family, Molly, Maude, Jane, Daisy, Edith...etc "

"Do you have any books stacked the other way?" Cartoon by Chris Slane shows a man with his head bent sideways to the horizontal standing in a bookshop speaking to a glasses-wearing woman behind the counter. All books on the shelves appear to have titles on their spines designed to be read sideways and are stacked to show only their spines.

Cartoon shows two fashionable women seated outside a cafe, one holding a smart phone:
Woman: “I knew it was an AI scam as soon as I heard a cheerful voice
trying to sound like my teenage daughter.”

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 by Chris Slane depicts a woman and a man at the movie theatre who notices a gamer kid with a controller appearing to be playing the film they are watching.

Space Knights set

ACT leader Rodney Hide as a horrible dog is raiding a stinking garbage can that contains 'National's projected policies'. The abandoned policies are 'Student loan cuts', 'welfare cuts' and 'open cast mining'. The dog has the material on 'open-cast mining' in its mouth and is dragging it out of the garbage. Context - Act leader Rodney Hide says mining conservation land is "vital to New Zealand's future success". Hide reopened the debate about mining at his party's annual conference on Sunday when he said Act would allow mining in conservation land. He told TV ONE's Breakfast today that "if we shut mining down, we shut New Zealand down". (TVNZ 16 March 2011)

Cartoon - CT leader Rodney Hide stands alone in the middle of a blasted plain that was once the 'Christchurch CBD' and says The real problem here is red tape and getting government spending under control'. Context - Christchurch after the earthquakes of 4 September 2010 and 22 February 2011. ACT explicitly promotes a free market philosophy - a (literal) level playing field in the Christchurch CBD sounds like an excellent opportunity to test the powers of the free market. 21 March 201

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 : 'Low lamb prices could see more farmers planting trees - news' image shows a sheep dog digging a hole to bury pine seedlings. A man wearing a white coat holding a clip board comments to an onlooker "Dog trials are a bit different this year."

Castle N-ACT. Overseas private prison companies. Corrections. ACC. Overseas private insurance companies. "I believe in rewarding success"

The Castle N-ACT with two turrets named 'Corrections' and 'ACC' is being 'besieged' by 'Overseas Private Prison Companies', 'Overseas Private Insurance Companies' and 'Finance Companies', but in fact the besiegers are being welcomed to the castle. On top of the third central turret stands John Key being knighted as a reward for his success. On top of the 'Corrections' turret, Corrections Minister, Judith Collins, threatens the Corrections CEO, Barry Matthews, with an axe and on top of the ACC turret ACC Minister, Nick Smith, holds the head of sacked ACC Chair, Ross Wilson, aloft, impaled on a spike. Bags of money are heaped in the castle. Refers to National's interest in using private prison and insurance companies and propping up finance companies during the recession which in effect seems to indicate a general downgrading in public services.

14 March 2009

A businessman has fainted in his office after reading about the 2009 budget and the fact that tax cuts promised in the election campaign have been cancelled. A pretty PA tries to comfort him. What particularly shocks him is the notion that the National Party might have lied just get elected. Refers to the cancellation of promised tax cuts mainly because of the recession. 6 May 2009

Shows ACC Minister Nick Smith wearing huge boots that have the words 'creative accounting' on them; he kicks a small car representing ACC to bits and says 'John told me to give the tyres a good kicking'. Refers to the intention of the government to reform ACC and turn it into a profit-making enterprise. 23 October 2009

On one side of a door Prime Minister John Key and Finance Minister Bill English sweat and fret over how credible the 2009 budget sounded to a Standard & Poor's delegation because New Zealand's credit rating is at stake. On the other side of the door two men from Standard & Poor's mop their brows and gradually relax as they too worry about their credibility; papers about 'sub-prime AAA' drop out of the briefcase of one of the men. Refers to the fact that New Zealand's AA+ rating was revised from stable to negative watch by Standard and Poor's in January and it said the future rating would hinge on the Budget. A delegation from the powerful credit rating agency Standard and Poor's received an advance briefing on the Budget. 30 May 2009

The cartoon shows Sue Bradford, the Green MP who recently resigned from parliament after losing a bid for the co-leadership of the Green Party when Jeanette Fitzsimons retired. She is shown in colour while a group of people in silhouette accuse her, saying 'Sue Bradford... you're a hard-working, collaborative, successful high-achiever. Get out!' The suggestion is that it not simple disappointment that caused her to resign but perhaps frustrations caused by the inner workings of the Green Party. Sue Bradford was notably interested in social policy while the Greens focussed heavily on environmental issues.

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Cartoon depicts Richard Worth, former Minister of Internal Affairs, riding past the pyramids of Egypt on a camel as he heads into the wilderness. Refers to the sacking of Richard Worth by the Prime Minister John Key because of sexual misdemeanours on top of a number of other questionable pieces of behaviour. 15 June 2009

Cartoon depicts 'The National Extreme Technical Torture Track' which has cyclists attempting to ride from 'the summit' on which stand two politicians over a series of horribly complicated cycling challenges that represent the 'credit squeeze', Sealord job drop off', recession ravine', 'bridge of business doom' etc. Refers to National's attempts to manage New Zealand's economic future during the recession. 6 March, 2009

Cartoon depicts a maize farmer driving a trailer full from silo to silo all labelled 'No Vacancy'. North Island maize grain growers to prepare for a “perfect storm” this autumn as oversupply issues, few storage options and falling prices hit the industry.

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'Parliament to probe rural banking' - news. Cartoon shows a farmer harvesting a crop by hand, but tapped on the shoulder by a banker holding a sign 'Loan Pay. due $$$'. He is tapped on the shoulder by a government official hiding a sign 'Govt bank rate probe'. He is tapped on the shoulder by a grumpy older consumer with a shopping cart holding a sales receipt with $$$