NEW NATIONALISM
September 11, 2001 continues to shape and effect the politics and policy frameworks of so-called contemporary Australia and our place in a changing world
australian made information kit
1986, information kit with logo designed by Ken Cato, released by the Australian Chamber of Commerce to encourage and promote the registration and regulation of Australian brands and manufacturing, even while the country was undertaking an economic and structural deregulation of many manufacturing industries
30 cm height
acquired from eBay
let’s look out for australia: protecting our way of life from a possible terrorist threat
2003, a multi-lingual information pack and fridge magnet campaign by Eric Abetz and Prime Minister John Howard. To encourage Australians to ‘Be Alert and Not Alarmed’ by the possible terrorist threats following the 9/11 attacks, citizens from all language groups were encouraged to report on their neighbours or people they thought were carrying out ‘suspicious activities.’
30 cm height
acquired from eBay
pauline hanson’s one nation cap
1997 - 2017, orange and white One Nation campaign cap
18 cm wide
anonymous donation
donald trump invitation
2019, official invitation to the Arrival Ceremony at the White House Rose Garden, where then President and Mrs Trump welcomed the Honourable Scott Morrison MP, Prime Minister of Australia and Mrs Jennifer Morrison. It was during this ceremony that Donald Trump read an excerpt of Dame Mary Gilmore’s nationalistic poem ‘No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest,’ written under the WWII threat of Japanese invasion. Dame Gilmore was Scott Morrison’s great aunt
20 cm high
acquired from eBay
