"Bugger off - I've been paddling waka solo much longer than anybody" says NZ First solo rower Winston Peters as he slaps the water above a cirlinging shark labelled with 'N' for National Party accompanied by a yellow pilot fish labelled with 'A' for Act Party.
A male office worker exits the Prime Minister of New Zealand carrying a stinky nappy labelled 'police appointments'' heading towards buckets labelled 'enquiries' containing many stinky nappies labelled 'NZFirst appointments' - Jacinda Adern sits at hers desk worried reading more papers.
A Polar Bear riding on a jet-ski through a melting polar seascape under a brightly shining sun muses to himself -"If only petrol for my jest-ski was cheaper" while a copy of the latest IPCC report floats on top a a tiny iceberg.
"How do you like your new standing desks?" asks Prime Minister Jacinda Adern as she is locking in stocks two women named Clare Curran and Clare Curran.
Opposition leader Simon Bridges - having already abandoned ship - calls to the Coalition crew " Hey Government - why haven't you turned the ship around already?"
Shane Jones says "I'm merely preparing the ground with taxpayer dollars" as he feeds dollars into a mulching machine which sprays the mulch onto a neglected wasteland situated in Northland, New Zealand.
Shows a senior citizen in a home with holes in the roof that spell 'Welfare State'. Containers are on the floor catching leaking water. Minister of Finance, Grant Robertson, is holding bags of money and says, "Sorry, we can't pay for a new roof- we're saving for a rainy day."
A kiwi at home gets a artificial high from inhaling fumes from a bong labelled 'Meth Hose Moral Panic'. Many Housing New Zealand tenants and others were wrongly evicted over tests suggesting the houses were dangerously contaminated with fumes from meth cooking.
NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in scuba gear deals with rubbish labelled with various issues.
Stupid mammals whadda they know? Yeah! The climate has always changed! They're parroting the parrots" say the dinosaurs to amammal Greta Thunberg as a climate change asteroid approaches.
"It's all a big white wash and the leader of their party should resign immediately" announces leader of the opposition Simon Bridges about the government while overlooking his own party scandals - accompanied by a mob of meerkats representing his own party members who photobomb any video interview with their leader.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern holds baby Neve up in the manner of the Lion King movie - "Behold the great media circuit of life".
Cartoon shows Housing Minister Megan Woods at the bottom of the ocean badly patching up a sunken wreck named 'Kiwibuild' and pronouncing "Rest Done".
"It's entirely legal" states one National Party fisherman to a second while believing they caught a good fish instead it is actually the tip of a tongue belonging to a giant sea serpent labelled 'Foreign Political Influence'.
"It's stuck on lane detection mode - and won't let me cross to either side" says Labour leader and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as her bus labelled 'Labour' drives down the middle of the road - Whanganui sign at side indicates the location of the party conference.
Man struggling to carry heavy buckets of slime labelled 'Vile' and 'Views' is saying "Must Show Everyone How Bad My Enemies Are" towards a fountain of slime with a Twitter logo - illustrates an Iranian proverb that says :
"To provide water for (turning) the enemy's mill"
Cartoon shows man ranting that "unfair - being forced to witness your demonstration of superior bravery and integrity"
Cartoon shows a small herd of fearful wildebeest on a savannah encircled by lions and one says "Let's open up to big cats - I'm sure we will reach herd immunity eventually"
Cartoon shows the Republican Party elephant recovering from a hangover ins an alleyway saying "What a bender -can't remember a thing - hope I'm not held responsible for anything I did" while a dumpster labelled 'Trump Years burns nearby and a donkey democrat street cleaner looks on aghast.
Cartoon shows Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson of the New Zealand Government choosing packages or presents for Christmas peering through a window at a factory - "I want that on" says Ardern - referring to a package labelled 'Transformative Change' while Roberston says "Wait - the next one might be even better" - it is labelled 'Incremental Change' while a third rumpled box is labelled 'Business as Usual'.