Minecraft
Shows a group of miners forcing their way deeper into a mine, so intent on gaining wealth that they ignore environmental and safety regulations. The miners are from left, National Party mps, Steven Joyce, Minister for Economic Development, Gerry Brownlee, Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery, Phil Heatley, Minister of Energy and Resources, Kate Wilkinson, Minister of Conservation, and Prime Minister John Key. Context: Refers specifically to the Pike River mining disaster of November 2010. Auditing strongly suggests that the deregulated environment deriving from the 1980s must be in large part to blame for the tragedy in which 29 miners died.
Author: Christopher Slane
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File state: Final
Cartoon size: 7.1 Mpixels (20.4 MB uncompressed) - 3155x2262 pixels (10.5x7.5 in / 26.7x19.2 cm at 300 ppi)
Published in: Political Cartoons 2012a