Earlier 2023
Weed should not be legalised - it's bad for your health" says a wine drinking elderly white man over the fence to his dark-skinned neighbour who is watering his marijuana plant while behind him a towering policeman is about to beat him with a massive mallet labelled 'Decades of punitive justice.'
'I only got into politics because I really wanted to unmake a difference’ #cartoon #sketch #concept #nzpol says Simon Bridges holding a garden tiki torch standing next to a pile of papers labelled with various beneficial laws and regulations aimed at improving life in New Zealand and the planet.
64 Double-cab Utes are imported into New Zealand each year for every one electrical vehicle - "Bugger!" says the planet earth.
"Help - my freedom of expression is being infringed" claims politician as he uses his own boot to stamp his face.
"Better the lawyer you know, I say" says one demon in hell to another as he reads a newspaper with the heading 'Poll: own lawyer good value'
Cartoon depicts a scientist chap in a waterway coming up for air with seaweed all over his head, having a eureka moment - "Eureka! It was staring me in the face!" A female scientist with a clipboard and a cow watch on from the shoreline.
'News: trials on the Coromandel Peninsula show sea lettuce gorges on pollutants' .... in freshwater, potentially removing a significant source of contamination from New Zealand’s waterways.
Cartoon depicts NZ captain Kane Williamson handing India's Virat Kohli a glass of milk "Glass of milk?" and Kohli saying "Got my own, thanks." Kohli indicates a table stacked with glasses of milk, indicating India has high production from a local dairy industry. Title: 'NZ-India free trade discussions- news'