Earlier 2023
Cartoon depicts a scene at Fieldays 2023 with a group of politcians standing on handbales their breaths visible above their heads in the freezing temperature. A rural ma in shorts and rolled up sleeves comments to a feloow "I see the townies have arrived."
'Overton Windows'. Cartoon depicts a red and blue coloured political landscape signposted as left, centre and right. One giant green rainbow coloured window frame containing a green ecological low carbon 'survivable future' landscape with a Maori woman ( Marama Davidson - Green Party ) calling "Come with us if you want to live." Dressed in a red shirt the leader of Labour Party Chris Hipkins, sword in hand, is standing on top of the hill labelled 'Majority of Voters'. He is sparring with leader of National Party Chris Luxon dressed in a blue shirt, who is retreating to the right of the centre. A sign on the downward slope to the right is labelled 'Business As Usual'. On the far right a small gold coloured window frame is labelled 'UBER-RICH SURVIVAL' . It contains a luxury boat travelling through a flooded suburban landscape. This window frame is being lifted into the air by a helicopter blade with a wealthy man in a top hat ascending a ladder. It is David Seymour leader of the Act party is holding a champagne glass calling "Not all of you can come with us, SOZ!". An Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time aka 'window of discourse'
Cartoon depicts a masked nicotine businessman making off with bags of profits under the civer of a law and order debate
Cartoon depicts a blue scorpion labelled N for National and resembling leader Christopher Luxon riding on the back of a frog labelled 'Labour & Greens' saying "Trust me. Why would I renew on climate? We would both drown". They are attempting to swim to the side of the boiling pot over a fire. Refers to National plans to keep agriculture off the ETS until 2030, to give farmers more time before paying for emissions.
Cartoon depicts two farmers watching a man in a white lab coat trying to milk a cow with test tubes, beakers and a Bunsen burner commenting "These professors have some good ideas on stock rotation, pretty rubbish on the cups, tho." Heading: 'News: redundant uni staff hit the job market'
Cartoon depicts two antiquated biplanes representing parties of the right wing in New Zealand. In a nimble yellow plane Act party leader David Seymour climbs ahead. In a rumpty blue National plane the pilot Christopher Luxon shouts to Nicola Willis "Oh no, he's gaining. Quickly, dump all our saner policies." Dutifully, Willis jettisons five bulky bags labelled 'Farming Accord' 'Lower emissions' 'Housing accord, centrist policies' 'Maori'
Cartoon depicts a man sitting on a hill with a dog at sunset. The dog says "thanks for all the typing, Steve" Caption: 'Ditch' the columnist retires' Refers to Farmers Weekly columnist Steve Wyn-Harris’s long-time companion 'Ditch' heading to a sheep and beef farm in Whangaehu.
Cartoon depicts about 77 year old dog triallist Ginger Anderson of Ōmarama who is among the front-runners at the business end of the 2023 New Zealand sheep dog trials, near Balclutha who when asked if he reckons he can win another title and the heading asks "can an old dog teach us a few old tricks?' he says "oh hell yeah".
Cartoon depicts a farmer trying to figure out how one pine adds up to three Mānuka trees refers to carbon sequestration and how farmers can add up their tree plantings and put them in the ETS system for funding applications to the One Billion Trees programme. Farmers who have tree blocks on their land have to consider how they can be counted to help offset emissions under He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN).
Cartoon depicts a steampunk style futuristic workshop hangar with a bright earth sphere in the centre with New Zealand & Australia foremost also connected to a tangle of pipes and cables. A set of stairs leads to a door open in the south island of New Zealand indicated by a female scientist saying "This is a space-time machine. We can all use it to travel into the future, but only if..." A man in a blue suit interrupts with "We take it out a few burnouts and donuts? Yeehaw! Voom Voom!"
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980
Illustration depicts a page from Stream Power Comic - The ARA Stream Manual a booklet produced by the planning division of the Auckland Regional Authority for the use of local authorities, community groups, schools, and individuals interested in conserving and developing their urban streams. Script & artwork by Chris Slane, Landscape Architect Mary Buckland, Acknowledgement to Huub Shrijver, printed by the ARA 1980