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ALT Cartoon. Title “Sunday 25 Oct ‘26” Six frames. 1st frame, 9PM. PM Christopher Luxon in his jimjams, looking at his watch, saying, “Come on, come on!” 2nd frame: 10PM. Luxon worrying, “Is this thing even working” 3rd frame: Luxon gazing off to the side and sighing. 4th frame, slapping his hands down on the table saying, “Well, that’s it! Voter registration closed!” 5th frame: Luxon turning off the light, getting ready for bed. “We never suppressed voter turnout! We’ve just sped up the count…” 6th frame: Luxon in bed, snuggling down, saying, “And left all the time in the world for coalition talks. Ah, sweet Democracy”
ALT Cartoon. Title: “Pacifier” Image shows Putin cradling Trump like a baby, feeding him from a diesel bowser. The bowser has “Ukraine War” ticking over on the counter.
ALT Cartoon. Title: “Health Targets” Simeon Brown pushing a patient in a wheelchair, in an Emergency Department. He’s wheeling her towards a cupboard that is stuffed full of people, and saying, “Technically, this isn’t the ED. Our targets are working!”
ALT Cartoon. Title: “Patriot Games” PM Christopher Luxon and Trade Minister Todd McClay as schoolboys, looking surly. Luxon is saying, “Breaching the European Free Trade agreement?! What I want to know is who dobbed us in?!” McClay is saying, “Oooh, ha, watch yourself Chlöe” as she falls over his outstretched foot.
ALT Cartoon. Title: “Work it!” The Dancing Cossacks from the 1970s National Party ad, with PM Christopher Luxon as one of them, carrying two supermarket bags, labelled Pak’NSave and New World. Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick in the background, clapping and saying, “Dah! Dah! Dah! Go, Comrade Luxon!”
ALT David Seymour talking to the media, with a Waitangi Tribunal document under his arm. He is saying, “Activist! Ideological! Expansive! And an affront to every New Zealander!” In the background PM Luxon is walking away, and looking back nervously, saying, “Gawd! What’s he talking about now?” And Nicola Willis is saying, “The Act Party”
ALT Cartoon. Title: “Decision-Making After the RMA Reform” Image shows two sides of the one coin. The first, labelled “Heads” shows MP Chris Bishops in profile, with “The Natural Environments And Planning” and also “I win” and the reverse, labelled “Tails” shows a bare bottom, the words, “The Natural Environments And Planning” and “You Lose” below, as a speech bubble issuing from Bishop, “I, the Minister, will have the power of final say on any planning decision in the country”
ALT Cartoon. Title: “The report on Moa Point & the 14 billion litres of raw sewage” Image shows three figures with sewage from pipes above their heads being dumped on their heads and shoulders. The figures are labelled “Wgtn Water” “Veolia” “Wgtn City Council” A person standing behind them is flapping a hand in front of their face, and saying, “Whiffy”
ALT Cartoon. Title: “The Carry” Two frames. 1st frame, A rugby player running with the ball. Caption: “An All Black carrying an air-filled ball over the try line. Hooray!!!” Frame 2: a woman running with a small child tied to her front, and a teenager tied to her back, with a box tied on, that is labelled, “Hopes and dreams of a jobless teenager” The woman is looking at her watch and carrying a shopping bag with “Cost of Living” written on it. The caption says, “A low-wage parent carrying the weight of the world over a moving try line…”
ALT Cartoon. Title: “Survivors of Abuse in State Care” Then it says, “Flowers for the Minister” (Erica Stanford) Image shows a bunch of red flowers, tied with a black ribbon, and a card attached, “Still Waiting for Redress” The flowers bear the faces of children.
ALT Cartoon. Title: “Time and No Emotion” Picture shows Health Minister Simeon Brown standing in an Emergency Department, wearing a white coat, with staff working around him. He’s shouting, “Come on, people! Save them! Save them!” Someone from the side is saying, “Do you mean these people, Mr Brown?” And he says, “Pfffft! No! Dollars!”
ALT Cartoon. Title: “Letters of Understanding” A woman is talking to a man and hold an envelope that she is shoving at his chest. She is saying, “As the CE of MSD it’s my job to outline PTs and KPIs. This letter spells out our expectation the you KEHNUTGT and you WPHPIEHIYKWGFY. Got it?” And the man is saying, “OK” Down the bottom is a explanation of the abreviations. “CE: Chief Executive. MSD: Ministry for Social Development. PT: Performance Targets. KPI: Key Performance Indicators. KEHNUTGT: Keep Emergency Housing Numbers Under the Government Target. WPHPIEHIYKWGFY: Won’t Place Homeless People in Emergency If You Know What’s Good For You”
ALT Cartoon. Title: “Transport Me” Image shows a bus at a bus stop, a person waiting to get on, and the person in front of her, who is Simeon Brown, is saying, “Is this one of Labour’s flights of fancy?” And the bus driver says, “No, mate, it’s a bus. Now are you getting on board? People have places to go”
ALT Cartoon. Title: “Accommodation Supplements” Image shows Minister for Social Development Louise Upston at one of the doors of a weather house. The words say: “V1. Politician Gets a supplementary $1000 a week to live in freehold home. V2. Family in need. Gets $42 a week taken off their supplement to live in a house” Upston is saying: “So, stop picking on me!” as a child and an adult fall off the other side of the platform.