POSTER - 'LABOR ADVERTISEMENT'

Black and white. Reads in large lettering across the top 'STOP THIS SABOTAGE!' Below 'THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY HAS BEEN SABOTAGED BY COMPANIES WITH WORLD INTEREST./ THE RESERVE BANK REPORT OF JUNE 1973 SAYS:...."MANY THOUGHT THAT THE COST OF FOREIGN CURRENCIES IN/ TERMS OF AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS MIGHT RISE AND WERE ENCOURAGED TO MOVE FUNDS OUT OF AUSTRALIA.....'/THIS SABOTAGE WAS FURTHER EMPHASISED IN THE 1974 REPORT WHICH SAYS....'. Below is a picture of a map of Australia being handed over for a large wad of American dollars. To the left of this reads 'DON'T/ SELL/ AUSTRALIA'.
Below - 'A HUGE WITHDRAWAL OF MONEY BY FOREIGN INVESTORS COMBINED WITH AN INVESTMENT STRIKE, GENERALLY REFERRED TO/ AS LACK OF BUSINESS CONFIDENCE BY LARGE AUSTRALIAN COMPANIES, HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MAIN CAUSES OF AUSTRALIA'S UNEMPLOYMENT./ WITHIN THREE WEEKS OF THE BLOODLESS COUP WHICH OVERTHREW YOUR GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS FELT MORE CONFIDENT./ "THE AUSTRALIAN" SAID ON NOVEMBER 29: "THE NATIONAL EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION DECIDED AT A PRIVATE MEETING IN/ SYDNEY TO PLOUGH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BACK INTO INDUSTRIAL AND DEVELOPMENT EARLY NEXT YEAR./ BEAT THIS STRIKE AGAINST YOUR INTERESTS'. In larger lettering 'HELP BUY BACK AUSTRALIA!'. In even larger lettering 'VOTE LABOR'. Authorised by Media Action Group and Young Labor Council, Sydney. Printed by Tomato Press.

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