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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Australian News & Information Bureau (an agency of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia); lithographed in the United States by F. C. Veit and S. M. Adler
- Region
- Oceania
- Country
- Australia
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Curtin Government
- Leader
- John Curtin
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Australian Crown copyright, published 1943-1945, 50 years expired before 1996; hosted by owner decision
Australian News & Information Bureau; artists F. C. Veit and S. M. Adler. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-899b.
Text on the object
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)
