Earlier 2023
Cartoon depicts Auckland deluge of rain landing in a myriad of buckets labelled 'Excuses' 'Insults' 'Sneers''Evasions' 'Fluffs' 'Anger' 'Back-tracking' 'Lack of Judgement' 'Blunders' 'Scorn' 'Lack of Judgement' 'Evasions' 'Spin' 'Crankiness' 'Ego' ''Tennis' while Mayor Wayne Brown tries to pass a bucket labelled 'The Buck' and says "Sorry Drongos I'm too busy rushing out my own buckets"
Cartoon depicts a malfunctioning messy factory closed for repair labelled 'capitalism' with egg and CO2 shortages oil refining function closure plus air travel luggage chaos all closed for repair while a businessman rails against the situation exclaiming bitterly "Government why are you doing this to me?"
Cartoon depicts two men seated by a container full of meat for export drinking flat beer from cans "next we'll be sending flat beers to Newcastle"
Cartoon depicts two sheep enjoying beach chairs next to flood waters "The beach came to us this year - very handy"
Cartoon depicts various fruits trying to gain entry to Club Fruit nightclub "Hey - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit you know"
"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."
"Still fine-tuning your privacy settings I see" says a woman to another with digitally-blurred facial features.
A transformer with three heads represents New Zealand coalition parties about - NZGreens -NZFirst is dragging one leg while Jacinda Adern says '"We transformative believe in bold action but at three different speeds - while issues such as environment - housing - inequality -health remain half-completed in the background.
Title - What they didn't say - Sheppard- Savage- Hillary-with speech bubbles containing the phrases - Let's be fast followers - lean back - we're too small to count - nothing you can do will make a difference.
"Sorry no room for refugees until everyone lives in a kiwibuild house" says Winston Peters raising his hand and musket and wearing a blanket and ammo pouch to a small boat load of refugees commandeered by Jacinda Adern wearing the uniform of a colonial captain from the 18th century.
Various people such as a cleaner a spy and office workers crowd around the desk of a woman
Cartoon depicts two groups of polls who will not talk to each other --Reid Research versus Colmar-Brunton "Tell him he's the outlier" "Troll Poll" while commentators say "Even our polls are becoming polarised" "Thanks Facebook"
Cartoon depicts two cars driving through a mall with Labour Govt taking a right turn in front of National Party law and order car and ram raids a shop window labelled 'Simplistic Law & Order Policies' with driver Poto Williams saying "Hey no one overtakes Labour on the right" to Mark Mitchell.
Cartoon depicts a security officer examining a travellers eye close up eye to eye "Retinal Scan Sir"
Cartoon portrays War Wars robots R2D2 & CP3O "What's that R2D2? Your privacy policy hasn't been updated since when? Time for a reboot"
Cartoon depicts a pie chart shaped as an oval containing 'Vaccinated NZ' with one tiny section tearing off labelled 'Ant-Vaxers' with a tiny figure of Chris Luxon leader of the National Party popping into the divisive gap positing "This chasm is all the government's fault" refers to the opposition both-sides policy positioning.
"Everything on this one" says a middle aged pale male denialist as he pushes all his chips on to the square marked 'best case scenario' - "no more bets" says the figure of death labelled 'climate change' - while a blond woman holds the arm of the big spender.
Cartoon depicts a shopping mall with escalators carrying middle classes down an 'inequality' escalator while the wealthy are being carried higher via the 'quantitative easing' escalator - one woman says "The government is so unfair to business"
A white supremacist gunman labelled 'Hate' flees from huge bouquets of flowers symbolising love and sympathy for his victims in Christchurch.
Cartoon depicts a future corner shop selling alcopops cocaine meth and other drugs and fortified like a castle
Cartoon depicts two construction workers high above a city having a lunch and one comments "Sometimes I worry about work-life balance"
Cartoon depicts the office of a credit agency where a myopic clerk announces to a woman of colour "Don't worry we have comprehensive picture of you - a 55 year old caucasion male midget bankrupted 18 times convicted of fraud 35 times with a sailor's tattoo- is there anything I have left out?"
Birds are attracted to a website/bath with a sign saying 'April Surprise which is really a snake in disguise- Subtitle - Avoid the april fool - check each website you visit is genuine'
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