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title: 'This is Australia: One of the United Nations'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-is-australia-one-of-the-united-nations-australia-1944/
description: A three-part sheet headed 'the people', 'their work' and 'the country' combines captioned photographs, a text history ('this is AUSTRALIA').
section: Collection
---

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[![This is Australia: One of the United Nations, 1944 Australia poster: A three-part sheet headed 'the people', 'their work'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/this-is-australia-one-of-the-united-nations-australia-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/this-is-australia-one-of-the-united-nations-australia-1944.jpg)

# This is Australia: One of the United Nations

A three-part sheet headed 'the people', 'their work' and 'the country' combines captioned photographs, a text history ('this is AUSTRALIA'), pictogram population and production charts, and the banner 'ONE OF THE UNITED NATIONS'. The tell for card-stacking is the selection of national achievements and statistics with the text drawing parallels with the United States (founding year, gold rush, constitution); the pictogram charts lend a statistical look to the figures (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
this is
AUSTRALIA

the people / their work / the country

TOTAL POPULATION: 7,229,000. EACH FIGURE REPRESENTS 350,000 PEOPLE

ONE OF THE UNITED NATIONS

[Body text, captions and chart labels in smaller type; headings and imprint legible:]
f. c. veit and s. m. adler
Lithographed in the United States of America
ISSUED BY AUSTRALIAN NEWS & INFORMATION BUREAU (AN AGENCY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA)
```

[← These are the American Republics - Members of the United Nations](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/these-are-american-republics-members-of-the-united-nations-un-1944/) [This is Belgium: One of the United Nations →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-is-belgium-one-of-the-united-nations-belgium-1944/)

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