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Chris Slane
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Lower goal setters #cartoon #nzpol #FarmersWeeklyNZ
Cartoon depicts two male farm workers inside a vehicle. A cloud of green coloured gas is emits from a driver's backside with a "PRRRRP!" sound effect. The passenger is exiting the vehicle at speed holding his nose & gasping for fresh air. Headline: 'METHANE TARGET LOWERED - NEWS' Driver: "SORRY, BUT IT'S ONLY SHORT-LIVED." Passenger: "AT THIS RATE SO AM I." Refers to a lowering of New Zealand’s emissions targets by government including a reset of the methane targets to 14-24% below 2017 levels by 2050, promising there would be no tax on methane emissions.
October 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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PM still on a spin tour #nzpol this cartoon was originally published by Farmers Weekly in July 2024. Luxon is still hoping farmers will pull the economy out of the ditch for him.
September 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Another mill closes #nzpol FarmersWeeklyNZ #cartoon
Plywood manufacturing plant to close - news One of three litlle pigs who has no wooden house: "I just couldn't get anything locally." In the woods a wolf holds a sign: 'Mill Closed'
September 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Bad bet. #nzpol Listener cartoon from early 2024
Cartoon depicts "PUT IT ALL ON BLUE!" Says Nicola Willis at a giant roulette table representing the economy. ( Blue square is labelled TAX CUTS. The croupier puts all her chips on to blue ) Other squares without chips are labelled WAGES FERRIES HOSPITALS SCHOOLS BENEFITS 3 WATERS ENVIRONMENT MAORI A.T. RAIL SMOKE FREE
September 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Yay - we're wasting less fresh fruit and vegetables... #cartoon @farmersweeklynz #nzpol
Cartoon depicts a waste processing centre bulldozer dumping green food rubbish into a hole as flocks of seagull hover. A poor family look on. 'NZ FOOD WASTE FALLS TO $3bn p.a. - NEWS' Mum: "We've done our bit to reduce fresh food waste by not buying any."
September 16, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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#nzpol poll
September 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Higher? #nzpol cartoon for Farmers Weekly newspaper.
TARIFF SURPRISE FOR NZ-NEWS A sheep labelled 'NZ' jumps over a 10% tariff barrier, then a 15%. Trump: "WONDERFUL! NOW JUMP HIGHER"
August 11, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Fast Track backwards #nzpol #cartoon #repost
Cartoon depicts an dilapidated steam train reversing at high speed along washed out rail track and falling into empty space. Riding a coal cart is Shane Jones (NZFirst) waving a lump of coal - Dr Strangelove Slim Pickens style - shouting "Black is the new green!" David Seymour (ACT) waves a lantern towards the abyss. Chris Luxon (National) "You're right, backwards is way faster" Nicola Willis (National) looks towards a carriage ( labelled 'Polluters". ) of rich villiains. A sign bedside the rails reads 'Fast Track' points in the opposite direction.
July 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Luxon gets a giant 'boo' at the netball. #nzpol #cartoon #boohoo
"Hey I get it - I'm still mad at Labour too!" Luxon gets a giant 'boo' at the netball. #nzpol #cartoon #boohoo
July 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Riding The Flaming Dipper Of Doom
#nzpol cartoon for NZListener.
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Riding The Flaming Dipper Of Doom - Cartoon depicts Shane Jones riding a flaming arrow headed downwards labelled 'Oil & Gas' towards a smoke-filled destination beyond the frame. Jones: "No, no we must stay on this trajectory all the way down. drill baby, drill!" PM Chris Luxon hangs on desperately. A green arrow labelled 'Global Energy Revolution' crosses their path heading up towards the sun, indicating a brighter future.
July 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Seymour sets his monkeys on scientists and experts. #nzpol #cartoons #Listenermag
Cartoon depicts Deputy Prime Minister and Act Party leader David Seymour in his Beehive office as the wicked witch of the west setting his attack monkeys on academics. "FLY, MY CYBER-BULIES. FLY! DOX 'EM! TROLL 'EM! AD HOMIN'EM!"
July 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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What a waste…
#cartoon #farmersweeklynz #kikorangi
MEDICINAL CANNABIS COMPANY SIGNS UK DEAL-NEWS Dock worker watching ship carrying cannabis exports departing: “TO THINK WE USED TO JUST BURN IT..”
July 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Turtle Engines #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
“WEIRD -WE STOKED IT UP TO MAX BUT IT'S STILL ONLY CRAWLING.”
June 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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'Nicky's Tool Shop' #nzpol #repost #cartoon for NZListener
'NICOLA'S ECONOMIC TOOL SHOP' Nicola Willis: "yep-we got'em all... tax-trimmers, hospital hatchets, ferry flensers, worker-whackers, service slashers, what else would you ever need?"
May 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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#budget #cartoon FarmersWeeklyNZ
Cartoon depicts a farmer dad seated at a kitchen table about to crack a walnut labelled '2025' selected from a 'Budgets' bowl. "Hopefully this walnut disappoint..." His daughter winces.
May 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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#tariffs #cartoon for FarmersWeeklyNZ
Cartoon depicts 'BEEF FARMGATE PRICES UP 5% 一NEWS' Farmer looking at cows grazing peacefully thinks: “Wow, things are finally beginning to look up…” Dog beside him looks at looming storm clouds looming in the shape of Trump holding a club labelled ‘Tariffs’.
May 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Hollowing out the economy... #nzpol cartoon for NZListener. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener/
Cartoon depicts a video game called 'Economic ‘Declinecraft’ starring Nicky Willis.' Player Nicola Willis is pickaxing beneath her feet saying: “Recovery is just a few more cuts away - we are getting warmer.” She is about to break through into lava.
May 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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US science in decline, New Zealand already leading the way. #nzpol
Cartoon depicts Trump ejecting scientists from a grand building labelled 'US science' with a flag labelled 'closing today.' Another says 'Now firing' News ticker: 'Fleeing scientists unlikely to head to NZ- news' 'one year on... nz science' (A sad scientist stands outside a ramshackle building with a cow poking it's head out of the window') The ejected scientists bypass New Zealand to get jobs at an Australian structure very vaguely reminiscent of the Sydney Opera House, labelled 'OZ science... now hiring $ $ $'
May 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Burning hot pile of lowest-bidder free-market ideology www.slanecartoon.com/-/galleries/... #nzpol #cartoon
Burning hot pile of dog poo school lunches Cartoon depicts NZ Prime Minister Chris Luxon leaving with a travel bag, passing David Seymour, Act Party, who has been scalded by a burning hot carton of dog poo as a school lunch. Luxon: "David, i have full confidence in your ability to handle hot potatoes on your own."
April 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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A personal fave from the archives... #nzpol #USpol #cartoon
"At least tax cuts have put more money in our pockets, eh?" asks a well-dressed man to a woman as they walk down a street in the post-apocalyptic ruins of welfare - manufacturing - industry - health - infrastructure, education, etc ( 11 Sep 1999 )
April 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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“the two factors that make services terrible: captive users, and no constraints…” pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/c... #socmedia
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March 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Outliers #bluezones #health #aging #cartoon www.slanecartoon.com/-/galleries/...
Cartoon depicts a doctor with his plump elderly patient who is smoking. Doctor: "Hmm... Remarkable for your age. Either you are an outlier or an out and out liar." Refers to people aging slowly or else lying about age in health studies.
March 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Farmer's weekly #cartoon #nzpol www.slanecartoon.com/-/galleries/...
Cartoon depicts 'SOME RURAL ROADS MAY REVERT TO GRAVEL -NEWS' “WHITE-WATER RAFTING WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE RELAXING.” - says passenger on a ‘BACK ROAD TOURS’ bus bumping along a pot-holed road.
February 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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A new mad money making scheme from National that no one wants … via Farmers Weekly #nzpol
‘GOVT PLANS TO PLANT PINES ON LOW VALUE LAND’ - NEWS “ONE DAY ALL THIS COULD BE A HIGHLY COMMERCIAL PINE PLANTATION AND CARBON SINK.” says minister McClay looking at tussock landscape. Sign: ‘ICONIC HILL COUNTRY CONSERVATION LAND’ Sign: ‘FIRE RISK’ MPI official: “DON'T YOU MEAN 'CARBON STINK?”
January 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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“Sorry Kids, I need all these for our poor, poor landlords.” says Luxon, the Grinch #nzpol #repost
LUXON THE GRINCH Cartoon depicts NZ PM Christopher Luxon as Dr Seuss's The Grinch appearing in a chimney to steal presents from sleeping children. "Sorry Kids, I need all these for our poor, poor landlords. Gifts are labelled 'Fair Pay' 'Free prescriptions' 'Te Reo Signs' 'RMA Reforms' 'Worker Rights' 'Jobs'. Refers to cost cutting and other measures to claw back savings for tax cuts allowing landlords to deduct mortgage interest costs they pay on rental income retrospectively, in effect a reverse Robin Hood” tax move that would enrich the 346 largest landlords by nearly $500 million over five years." - Council of Trade Unions’ economist Craig Renney. https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/350096254/some-landlords-will-pay-110000-less-tax-over-15-years-under-nationals-tax-policy Author: Slane Cartoons Limited All Rights Reserved, licensed for single publication use. Slane Cartoons Limited Cartoon keywords: 'RMA, Fair Pay, Free prescriptions, Grinch, jobs, Luxon, NAF, National, NZpol, public, Reforms, sector, Signage, tax, Te Reo, Worker Rights
December 27, 2024 at 1:20 AM