The well-known dandy Jackson Palmer, Member of Parliament for Waitemata, plays to the ladies' gallery in 1893. The ladies' gallery was located opposite the Speaker, supposedly not to distract Members of Parliament when speaking.
For centuries, politics and Parliament have been the subject of public comment, satire and humour. Almost since the beginning, New Zealand's Parliament has been portrayed through the eyes of cartoonists, whose work appeared in newspapers and magazines.
In this Nevile Lodge cartoon, which appeared in the Evening Post in 1973, the new prime minister, Norman Kirk, and his deputy, Hugh Watt, are discussing the problems the new Labour government faces.
The parties to the Gleneagles Agreement agreed to discourage and not to support contact or competition with sporting organisations, teams or sportsmen from South Africa or any other country where sports were organised on the basis of race, colour or ethnic origin.
Premier Richard Seddon sleeps at the Table of the House while the Old-age Pensions Bill is in Committee of the Whole House on the night of 23 September 1898.
This Eric Heath cartoon, which appeared in the Dominion in September 1981, illustrated how the nation divided into two distinct camps regarding the tour.
Reform leaders William Massey and James Allen head for Bellamy's to celebrate their victory over the Liberals and their assumption of government in 1912.
Cartoon drawn by Ernest Herber Thompson for his 1918 publication Light Diet: 150 Caricatures and Sketches Perpetrated by a New Zealand Artist in and out of Hospital.
Nevile Lodge was a well-known cartoonist, who had a long association with Wellington’s Evening Post. Specialising in depictions of New Zealand’s rugby, racing and beer culture of the 1950s and 1960s, he was made an OBE in 1981.
