Would you have posed for a Labour Party family photo?

Updated: 3:12PM Wednesday June 25, 2008

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The Labour Party's happy New Zealand family in its new taxpayer-funded Budget advertising is actually American, it has emerged.

The photo, from the US iStockphoto library, shows a couple with a young child outside a weatherboard house and costs about $20 to buy.

Would you have posed for a Labour Party family photo? Here is the latest selection of Your Views:

Miskeleni (Birkdale)
Monday June 23, 2008 Nope I think it's a non-story, typical of NZ media beat ups. Why do we waste thousands of dollars in the NZ media reprinting turgid old UK hack stories of absolutely no import?
Really, there are far more important issues out there and I am ready and waiting to vote for National as soon as they release some policy - please anyone!

Lady Barbie Girl (Epsom)
Tuesday June 17, 2008 You must be kidding!

BCR (Birkdale)
Monday June 16, 2008 Paul from Palmerston Nth,
I would suggest that you strongly represent constituents "doppy" enough to support this inept bunch of ideaologies and their poodle parties.
At the last polling Liarbour was around 25-30% support in Auckland, not too many voters there are "contemplating dairy prices" I suspect.

lindsay Keats (Wellington CBD)
Monday June 16, 2008 I would hope that now the Australian and NZ government have used this photograph the photographer sees the potential value in his work. I am sure the $20 x2 that he has been paid really goes a long way to pay his models reasonable rates,pay useage of the location, insurance, pay himself,his time to load images to a microstock library (micro meaning $ paid for useage) and purchase/maintain his equipment. It's not so much the users of this photography that are at fault but more so the "photographers" who are happy to take $20 for something that is worth so much more.

Sam (Waikato/King Country)
Sunday June 15, 2008 The March 2008 edition of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs newsletter front page features a boy apparently begging, the money in his cup is US dollars!