Summary

Poster promoting 'National Aborigines' Week' 1987, which depicts varied Indigenous people, roles and contributions to Australian History. Design by Queensland artist Laurie Nilsen, the poster incorporates illustrations of a man wearing a dhari headdress, a stockman, rock paintings, a man working in a cane field, a soldier, and a portrait of Mark Ella, Young Australian of the Year in1982.

Physical Description

Colour ink on paper. Title: 'White Australia Has a Black History'. The design features an outline of the map of Australia on a scroll with various illustrations. Blue and red printed text below the images.

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