This is your country! Don't talk the Jap into it

Place Oceania: Australia
Accession Number ARTV10123
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 52.1 x 39.3 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description colour process lithograph on linen
Maker Warner, Ralph Malcolm
Place made Australia
Date made c. 1940s
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Australian propaganda poster discouraging careless talk about military operations. This poster employs a bucolic Australian scene and alludes to a leisure lifestyle to incite people's sense of national pride. The Japanese were demonised by propaganda as fears of an invasion ignited Australia's urgency to commit as much military force toward protecting home soil. Pictured in Warner's poster is an idyllic pastoral scene with a car/caravan winding around a country road. This would have been typical of pre-war holidaymaker activities and serves to encourage the public to work toward saving what is theirs with cautionary talk.