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Allegory of war
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Maker: de Kessler, Thomas
'Allegory of war' (also known as the Futility of wars I) depicts the futility of war through allegorical figures, including the Ayatollah, Knights of Malta, Italian Fascists, a Napoleonic figure, Prus...ART91460
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... and the American Warship sailed into the sunset & never returned : AUSTRALIA - NUCLEAR FREE AND NON-ALIGNED
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Maker: Russell, Colin Shiels, Julie Another Planet
A protest poster campaigning against the use of nuclear weapons and the presence of American military bases in Australia such as Pine Gap. The poster depicts a large warship being pulled out of a harb...ARTV09015
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Anzac Day [In memory of 'women' of all countries raped in all wars]
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Maker: Alder, Alison Alder, Alison [CANBERRA : MEGALO SCREEN PRINT WORKSHOP], 1981
The poster was commissioned by the Sydney Women Against Rape Collective (SWARC), a group formed in the early 1980s 'in memory of all women raped in all wars'. The group began to march on Anzac Day to...ARTV04066
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"australia's uranium will be exported only with the strictest safeguards"...
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Maker: Artist unknown Artist unknown
An Australian political poster protesting the exportation of Uranium. It features a quote by the then Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and a man bound in chains. In 1977 the Fraser Government (1975-1983)...AWM2016.617.1
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Badges of the RAAF
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Maker: Unknown Directorate of Public Relations Unknown
Poster showing the badges of the RAAF. The poster features 17 different badges belong to the Squadrons of the RAAF, which are presented in four rows. At the top of the poster is the title, white text ...ARTV09781
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Bicentennial Anzac Day march
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Maker: Beilby, Marcus
Depicts a large crowd gathered in a city street watching the Anzac Day march in 1988, the Bicentennial of white settlement in Australia. In the right foreground (pictured in a wheelchair) is a veteran...ART29417
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Hiroshima. Never again
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Maker: Debenham, Pam Debenham, Pam Debenham, Pam
An anti-nuclear protest poster featuring the characteristic mushroom cloud of an atomic explosion as the main design component. In the upper segment is the B-29 Superfortress bomber 'Enola Gay', which...ARTV08874
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Hiroshima, 40 years
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Maker: Debenham, Pam
A poster produced for the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The poster depicts the Peace Memorial and two Japanese men in the foreground. In the background an aerial view of the cit...ARTV09068
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Imperial War Museum
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Maker: Eckersley, Thomas Trustees of the Imperial War Museum (IWM)
A poster advertising the opening hours of the Imperial War Museum in London. The poster depicts a soldier wearing a helmet with a laurel wreath. The laurel wreath as originally a symbol of victory, bu...ARTV09145
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Jobs not bombs - share the wealth
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Maker: Ingleby, Julie Victorian Coalition against poverty and unemployment
Anti Nuclear poster designed by artist Julie Ingleby (b.1958) for the Victorian Coalition against poverty and unemployment. It features a powerful collaged image with the slogan 'Jobs not bombs – sha...AWM2016.617.5
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Maquette for 'Simpson and his donkey 1915'
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Maker: Broad, Rodney
This is a small bronze maquette entry for the Australian War Memorial sculpture commission of 'Simpson and his donkey 1915'.ART40980
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March on May Day 1980...
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Maker: Amor, Rick
Poster advertising a May Day March in Melbourne in 1980 by artist Rick Amor.AWM2016.617.2
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Namibia: Free and fair elections
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Maker: Unknown United Nations Transition Assistance Group Windhoek
A yellow, blue, back and orange poster showing a map of Namibia superimposed by a hand placing a vote into a ballot box. The words 'Namibia: Free and Fair elections' appear above the illustrations, w...ARTV09100
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No. 15 more years
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Maker: Debenham, Pam Debenham, Pam
An Anti-nuclear poster protesting against the French decision to continue testing nuclear weapons in the Pacific for a further fifteen years. The word 'No' is bold and clear and placed directly above...ARTV09071
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No. No nukes. No tests
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Maker: Debenham, Pam
A protest poster campaigning against the use of nuclear weapons and the testing of these weapons in the pacific by the French. The central image is that of a bomb falling towards the ground. The word ...ARTV09070
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No nukes in the Pacific
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Maker: Debenham, Pam Debenham, Pam
A protest poster campaigning against the use of nuclear weapons. The poster depicts a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt which is adorned with the repeated images of palm trees, mushroom clouds from nuclear...ARTV09072
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On patrol, Vietnam
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Maker: Dowie, John Stuart Meridian Sculpture Founders
This bronze sculpture is of an Australian officer on patrol during the Vietnam War. He holds an automatic rifle in one hand and map in the other. The model for this sculpture was Lieutenant Donald Ray...ART40970
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Our Boys are bringing home a few mates for a party
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Maker: Unknown Royal Australian Navy Unknown
A poster celebrating the 75 Anniversary of the Royal Australian Navy. The poster depicts a ships in convoy with helicopters flying above. The Australian flag is flanked by the flags of Papua New Guine...ARTV09005
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Peace ‘The Only Safe Fallout Shelter’…
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Maker: Reidy, Chris Breadline Posters Red Letter Community Workshop Inc.
A visually beautiful poster this is one in a series of anti-nuclear posters designed by Reid in the early 1980s in support of the peace movement in Australia.AWM2022.586.1