Lyndon Hood: The Campaign In Pictures
NZ Election 2008: The Campaign In Scoop Images
Images by Lyndon HoodSelected Scoop editorial images from the 2008 New Zealand election campaign by Lyndon Hood.
Late 2007:
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Syed Akbar Kamal - Key’s DVD locked over ‘clocks’ issue
![EFB: the final
battle](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0712/fe6fa08547f50639f94b.jpeg)
Alastair Thompson - Video: PM's Post Cabinet Presser: Electoral Finance Bill
January:
![](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0801/bb916b988ec190bdcb94.jpeg)
Lyndon Hood - Mother Scoop's Almanac 2008
![michael
cullen](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0801/1431ac3035554a47b582.jpeg)
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Lyndon Hood - Lyndon Hood: Light Verse Versus Politics
![winston
peters](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0801/10c4a6440580e9a4e586.jpeg)
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![tariana
turia](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0801/d451afb07bf335cb7fce.jpeg)
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![](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0801/25cb8147d0490d7dc514.jpeg)
Lyndon Hood - 'Kiwi Party' Is An Appropriate Name
![key vs youth
crime](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0801/a31f969499df0da09f9a.jpeg)
National - Youth Plan to target crime, education
With a little help from Heromachine
![](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0801/69cc4a09ed41a4970957.jpeg)
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NZ Govt - Age of participation in education lifted to 18
February:
![](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0802/fe57159e4185bc885dca.jpeg)
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Lyndon Hood - Sevens Cut & Play Paper Dolls
![](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0802/7d5fc6c53b3332b38bef.jpeg)
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Printable PDF version (Page 1)
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Printable PDF version (Page 2)
March:
![New Investment
Rules vs Canadian Invasion](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0803/bc971311046fdd3790e7.jpeg)
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NZ Govt - Strategic assets to be protected in national interest
![citizen
key](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0803/b46f1dd4adfd700840ea.jpeg)
Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union - Has National muzzled the press?
![Fight!
Fight!](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0805/a19bd7d00334789fd9a5.jpeg)
Progressive Party - Young pretender challenges aging dinosaur
April:
![Half Party Half
Third Party](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0804/494771ee032595823070.jpeg)
Electoral Commission - Decision - Application to list EPMU as third party
![return of the
orange election man](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0805/0a45ad4ee1313047af66.jpeg)
National - National seeks court clarity on election law
![](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0804/f41162947bfc0d437fc3.jpeg)
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Agenda - Agenda Transcript: John Key on Asset Sales
![E F Bites
Back](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0804/c6ce78f6875317b9244c.jpeg)
Scoop Multimedia - PM's Press Conference - Pamphlets
![spare a vote
guvnor?](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0804/79802406e16bef399710.jpeg)
Election 08 - Looking For Labour’s Laggards
![Campaigning
Journalism Hits Fact Speed Bump](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0804/926da647c8256343402a.jpeg)
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Coalition for Open Government - Press Council finds fault with Herald EFA Campaign
![asciihive](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0804/367b6d8434ed7e966bc9.jpeg)
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Lyndon Hood - Lyndon Hood: NZ Politics - The Text Adventure
![microcomputing](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0804/333b78221141a398d74e.jpeg)
Lyndon Hood - Lyndon Hood: NZ Politics - The Text Adventure
![Kiwi Entrepreur
Unable To Hide Generosity, Pary unable to show in
polls](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0804/e265c97d87ecce3b9952.jpeg)
ACT - Gibbs Donates $100,000 To ACT
May:
![how does it fit in
the train? It's like a clown car!](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0805/94ec9e33f7a58f85920a.jpeg)
Gordon Campbell - Election 08: Back on Track
![could he fix it?
no](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0805/90dcecc5259ea6abb5bf.jpeg)
National - Bob Clarkson to step down at election
![bunnyhopping to
victory](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0805/782edc8b0d9e29d1794b.jpeg)
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Lyndon Hood - Fractious Fables
![ask me no questions...](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0805/efc47c02081653dda881.jpeg)
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Election 08 - WTF: Beating up on Goff
![yes yes hollow man
I see](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0805/5deb3fccdc9c01663a82.jpeg)
Election 08 - National’s secrecy about its policies
June:
![the best money an
election date can buy](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0807/c1e6fbf8b2a260b3ebc1.jpeg)
Newmarket Business Association - Pending election adds to retailers' worries
![party party
party](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0806/07f5acb66a29eee98d71.jpeg)
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Gordon Campbell - Election 08: Labour’s problems with the young
![but their age is
outstripping inflation](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0806/b55f8c10401e06648083.jpeg)
NZ Govt - National promises sinking lid education funding
![There are more
policies now. If you write big they'd fill a
brochure.](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0806/f2d267b88696679e731d.jpeg)
Gordon Campbell - Election 08: What A National Government May Entail - Part Two
![not assault](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0806/48559d0237b28b5b84eb.jpeg)
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Lyndon Hood - Anti-Smacking Amendment Vindicated By Police Trial
![Mister Key never
repeats](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0806/7b2c2acbb0d29ec475fc.jpeg)
NZ Govt - Key needs to be honest on New Zealand’s history
![naughty, naughty
boy](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0806/203e788f38eab524a99e.jpeg)
Electoral Commission - NZ First, display of banners in Tauranga
July:
![laptop image
source
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/12/beautiful-steampunk-.html](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0807/216cdfbb9d83696f46ad.jpeg)
Lyndon Hood - Nat Email Hacked In Parallel Universe
![fat cat bankers,
you see. Because you did not get it already.](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0809/3b12cd631a9c023f3e81.jpeg)
finsec - ANZ National fuelling attack on public services
![front line
services argued by staff-firers](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0807/66bd1c6f6c1aeff2fe2a.jpeg)
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Election 08 - Gordon Campbell on big, bad government spending
![no, you cannot
have access to the evidence against you. Not
yours.](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0807/f88722bf796b1d1ea5df.jpeg)
Election 08 - Gordon Campbell on the Immigration Bill, striking health workers, and the Obama Veepstakes
![this one was
mentioned on the radio, you know](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0807/1049ebf4f67d007668ad.jpeg)
Lyndon Hood - Lyndon Hood: Things To Do About Winston Peters
![...and firing
opportunities](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0807/deab4021d06dc6071900.jpeg)
National - Workplace policy: expanding job opportunities
![rated
surprisingly not bad](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0807/3cb2a6230d6cc9216b1a.jpeg)
Election 08 - Gordon Campbell on National’s industrial relations policy
![dum dum
da dum, dum dum da dum doodle-oo, doodle-oo, doodle-oo,
da-dum](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0807/3431013fd7d3d3d43f41.jpeg)
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NZ Govt - John Key flip flops yet again
![working for
families equals tax cuts by stealth](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0807/a3a5914d876a6ab8d79a.jpeg)
NZ Govt - Key admits support for communism
August:
![putting it on the
national plastic](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0808/385267d70c29e60e8603.jpeg)
Election 08 - Gordon Campbell on National’s economic vision
![image real, second
caption added](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0808/f46b90867cb9cb9c9a66.jpeg)
Scoop Full Coverage - National Conf + Secret Recordings
![well, everyone's
campaign actually](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0810/f714821aed0fc56cc196.jpeg)
National - Labour wanted taxpayers to fund its campaign
![gorilla
journalism](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0808/48d5915df816e0d1a885.jpeg)
Election 08 - Gordon Campbell on the ethics of taping politicians
![the old
carrot/stick schtick](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0808/666a483aa1777b32881d.jpeg)
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Election 08 - Campbell on National’s welfare policy, Tauranga and Georgia
![not friends with
benefits](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0808/a4fa1f478a625edc1ce7.jpeg)
Lyndon Hood - Lyndon Hood: Sanctions On Russia, Beneficiaries
![duelling energy
policies](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0808/f478025e383740189ebb.jpeg)
National - National: Going for growth
![ceci n'est pas une
parliament](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0808/7ffc189b11b249f934b6.jpeg)
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Election 08 - Gordon Campbell On Arts Funding Policy
![in retrospect,
winston as a gay icon is kind of funny too](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0808/a622873401b7c345ecd9.jpeg)
Lyndon Hood - Lyndon Hood: Satirists Urge Winston Not To Resign
![ask not for whom
the troll tolls](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0808/00d9d1d8ccc04733ade6.jpeg)
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Election 08 - National’s Plans For Roads + Blogging + Biden
![carbon
invaders](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0808/542395ca9365320aa9e1.jpeg)
Election 08 - Gordon Campbell On the ETS And The Greens
September:
![not so extinct
after all](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0809/fbc6bddf6ead13f9a781.jpeg)
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Election 08 - The Bad Blood Between the SFO and Peters
![sorry if I've
offended any welsh people there](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0809/3b43c299cca863e8681c.jpeg)
NZ Govt - National caucus in disarray as leaks intensify
![... I'll bite
your arms off!](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0809/6d6db456ea502961994c.jpeg)
Election 08 - Winston Peters’ Rebuttal Of Glenn
![a
horse-and-baggage race](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0809/fe4025263da652cde852.jpeg)
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Election 08 - ‘Horse race’ political journalism
![and got herself a
rather long speech broadcast live, too](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0809/bc707a9f2671c23b8f2d.jpeg)
NZ Govt - PM’s announcement on the 2008 General Election
![we're in a tidal
wave surge of whirlpool hurricanes down the drain!](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0809/394086da77a145d4f8ee.jpeg)
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Election 08 - How US Financial Meltdown Will Affect NZ Election
![after the famous
image of the treaty signing. Did you guess?](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0810/fef7f2920bbb547eaf8e.jpeg)
Greens - Nothing to fear from gang treaty claims
![stringy ropes
drawn entirely on my tablet](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0810/4a490e7add75dfa1c82d.jpeg)
Election 08 - The contemptible behaviour of both Peters and Key
![Henry Paulson,
Ben Bernanke bail out a seive. And may I say I found a bunch
of anti-semitic nastiness about bankers looking for source
images.](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0809/b0bdbe766e6322b0a275.jpeg)
Election 08 - On The US Bailout, And On Treating Key With Kid Gloves
October:
![the man in the
yellow jacket](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0810/b334b94c38dfe27ee5b4.jpeg)
Lyndon Hood - News Missed During The Peters Saga
![liftoff](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0810/63b2c357704795fa3be8.jpeg)
Election 08 - Gordon Campbell’s Election Launch 2008 Review
![Roar! Roar! Aha!
Bam! Pow! Rrr!](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0810/f9cc54adc4c04821da0e.jpeg)
Lyndon Hood - Campaign 2008 - The Superhero vs Monster Movie
![razor gangs, you
see. razor gangs](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0811/d8adee57834970b1428c.jpeg)
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Public Service Association - NZ cannot afford to cut its public services
![Sharples in
daring Key-taming performance](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0811/f6447f38c9cc9dc1e9a3.jpeg)
NZ First - Key Must Explain His Maori Party Deal
![Your money or
your money!](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0810/faccf541283e937331d0.jpeg)
C.D. Sludge - Sludge Report: Whose Money Are We Guaranteeing?
![Inflation hits the
poor.](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0810/1b53093e02e7442c60ba.jpeg)
Salvation Army - Grim reality for New Zealand's forgotten families
![instead of all
these special grants for being fired, how about we just have
a proper welfare system?](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0810/39a771864488625494fb.jpeg)
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Election 08 - Gordon Campbell On The Politics Of Poverty
![drinking the
labour lite kool aid](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0810/979e148357d7d0ecfee4.jpeg)
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Election 08 - National’s dilemma, if elected – if not Labour Lite, then what?
![don't give
beggars money; they'll only spend it on their
mortgages](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0811/90b6d4142831f1841f08.jpeg)
Greens - Key's Welfare Proposal Unworkable and Unfair
![Ooh. Look. A
rosette. Awesome.](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0810/7b1c0f4dfe1bbade2341.jpeg)
Lyndon Hood - Manifesto Of The Sarcasm Party
![H-Bomb
bounces](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0810/53963309c0c75a80643d.jpeg)
National - Desperation drips from latest smear attempt
![DNA testing
anyone charged with an imprisonable offense. That is, lots
and lots of innocent people.](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0811/4a01b6f98e2c1d5c1d2e.jpeg)
National - National announces Action Plan for Violent Crime
November
![counting down to the election](http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0811/9fa229f9f225b8900663.jpeg)
Election 08 - NZ’s Non-Election Comes To A Close