Guide to the [Ephemera relating to the 1943 Australian federal election campaign]
FC13.1943
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Created: 2025
Collection Summary
- Title
- [Ephemera relating to the 1943 Australian federal election campaign]
- Date Range
- 1943
- Collection Number
- FC13.1943
- Extent
- 1 collection
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Printed Collections
Introduction
Scope and Contents
This collection covers ephemera produced for the Australian federal election campaign of 1943, held on the 21st of August. As well as the Swan electorate by-election of 1944. The collection covers mainly printed materials issued by the parties and lobby groups for both Houses of Parliament. The range of ephemera includes leaflets, flyers, cards, and booklets.
Content advisory notice:
Please be advised this collection contains language, terms and descriptions which reflect the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive. Including terms and imagery relating to Japanese people.
Item Descriptions
Class 1943. Federal election campaign, 21 August 1943
Series. House of Representatives
Baker, Francis Patrick, Australian Labor Party, Division of Maranoa, QLD, 1943 (File)
WHEAT GROWERS! / Read these simple facts concerning your industry, 20 August 1943 (Item 1943/1) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 leaflet.
Leaflet highlighting how the Country Party "fails the farmer". Describes the benefits farmers have received under a Labor government. Encourages the public to vote for Francis Baker for the House of Representatives and Labor candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
Calwell, Arthur A (Arthur Augustus), Australian Labor Party, Division of Melbourne, VIC, 1934 (File)
Federal Elections, 1943 / MELBOURNE ELECTORATE, c. 1943 (Items 1943/3) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
2 flyers.
Flyer telling Labor voters how to vote, with [1] Arthur Calwell for the House of Representatives and Labor senate candidates the Hon Donald Cameron, Hon Richard Keane, and James Sheehan. 2 copies.
Daly, Fred, Australian Labor Party, Division of Martin, NSW, 1943 (File)
CURTIN'S PLEA TO VOTERS / Daly for Martin, c. 1943 (Items 1943/7) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
2 flyers.
Flyer encouraging the public to vote for Frederick Daly for the House of Representatives. 2 copies.
Australian Labor Party / HOW TO VOTE OFFICIAL LABOR, c. 1943 (Item 1943/8) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer instructing the public to vote [1] Frederick Michael Daly for the House of Representatives. Senate candidates listed in the reverse with the Labor Party's preferential numbers.
McCall, William Victor, United Australia Party, Division of Martin, NSW, 1943 (File)
The Parliament of the Commonwealth / Dear Elector, 10 August 1943 (Item 1943/12) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Letter written by Arthur Fadden and William Hughes encouraging the public to re-elect William McCall.
HOW TO VOTE FOR McCALL / AND THE UNITED AUSTRALIA PARTY, c. 1943 (Item 1943/13) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer showing the public how to vote for McCall for the House of Representatives and United Australia Party senate candidates.
Sloss, Albert, State Labor, Division of Martin, NSW, 1943 (File)
Did we say that? / Guilty men, c. 1943 (Item 1943/16) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 leaflet.
Content advisory notice: Please be advised that this item contains racial caricatures which reflect the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Scope and contents: Flyer describing State Labor's Victory Policy. Includes political cartoons describing various parties policies on war by artist Dan Russell. Encourages the public to vote [1] for Albert Sloss.
Series. Political parties
Australian Labor Party (File)
Right Hon. John Curtin / Federal Elections / An Epic Victory for Labor, 6 September 1943 (Items 1943/18) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
2 leaflet.
Leaflet thanking its recipient for their assistance during the 1943 federal election. Written by William Wauhop and Frederick Mann, president and secretary respectively, of the A.L.P. Fremantle District Council. 2 copies.
THIS ELECTION CONTEST / BETWEEN / MONOPLY CAPITALISM and THE PEOPLE / Has Anti-Labor Definite Nazi Sympathies?, August 1943 (Item 1943/19) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer positioning Fadden and Menzies as Nazi sympathisers. Encourages the public to vote for Labor candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice for the senate.
DON'T BE MISLED / EXAMINE THE FACTS, August 1943 (Item 1943/20) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer highlighting discrepancies in the Tory press's reporting on strikes and low production. Encourages the public to vote for Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
Strikes are to be deplored / ESPECIALLY / IN WAR TIME. TIME LOST THROUGH STRIKES, August 1943 (Item 1943/21) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer criticising the Fadden-Menzies government for higher amounts of time lost due to strikes. Encourages the public to vote for Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
Tories would give Queensland to the Japanese / MR FADDEN SAYS SO, August 1943 (Item 1943/22) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer criticising the Fadden-Menzies government. Encourages the public to vote for Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
LABOR PROTECTS THE MOTHER and HER CHILD / THE MATERNITY ALLOWANCE, August 1943 (Item 1943/23) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer advertising Labor's maternity allowance policy.
Labor Government ASSISTS Dairying Industry, August 1943 (Item 1943/24) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 leaflet.
Leaflet listing areas the Curtin government has assisted the dairy industry. Encourages the public to vote for Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
Gratuitous Insult to Queenslanders / Mr Fadden Asserts / Queenslanders are NOT Very Intelligent / They Are Not as Intelligent as Victorians, August 1943 (Item 1943/25) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer criticising Fadden and encouraging the public to vote for Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
President Dairy Farmers' Federation / AND / The Curtin Labor Government, August 1943 (Item 1943/26) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 leaflet.
Leaflet where Mr G. C. Howey explains the Labor Government's dairy subsidies. Encourages the public to vote for Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
SECTARIAN DEVILS / MENACE, August 1943 (Item 1943/27) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 leaflet.
Leaflet criticising the Tory government. Encourages the public to vote for Labor.
EXPOSURE / BY / Warrant-Officer FRANK LEGG / Tory Politicians Sabotage War Loan, August 1943 (Item 1943/28) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 leaflet.
Flyer criticising Tory politicians approach to war loans. Encourages the public to vote for Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
The occasion produces the man / AUSTRALIA'S GREAT WARTIME LEADER / JOHN CURTIN, August 1943 (Item 1943/29) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer highlighting the press's positive views on John Curtin. Encourages the public to vote for Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
LEADERSHIP / What a U.A.P. Government Would Mean to the People, August 1943 (Item 1943/30) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer encouraging the public to vote for the Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
Tory Government Holds Record for Ministerial Changes, August 1943 (Item 1943/31) - Box 23
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer comparing the records of John Curtin and the Tories. Encourages the public to vote for Labor candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
The U.A.P. is Governed by Vested Interests / MONOPOLY CAPITALISM and U.A.P. Tories, August 1943 (Item 1943/32) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer encouraging the public to vote for the Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
Fadden's Country Party Disrupted by, August 1943 (Item 1943/33) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer disparaging various political parties. Encourages the public to vote for the Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings and Benjamin Courtice.
U.A.P.-C.P. GOVERNMENTS FAIL AUSTRALIA / LABOR WAS RIGHT, August 1943 (Item 1943/34) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 leaflet.
Leaflet highlighting the shortcomings of the previous government. Encourages the public to vote for Labor candidates.
Curtin Government Gets Credit Due / PAPERS PAY TRIBUTE TO THE WORK DONE BY THE CURTIN GOVERNMENT, August 1943 (Item 1943/35) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer praising the Curtin government. Encourages the pubic to vote for the Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
These Men of Destiny Will Save Civilisation / They Are a Great Team, c. 1943 (Item 1943/36) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 leaflet.
Content advisory notice: Please be advised that this item contains language, terms and descriptions which reflect the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive. Including terms and imagery relating to Japanese people.
Scope and contents: Leaflet praising Winston Churchill, The Right Honourable John Curtin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Josef Stalin and Generalissimo Chang-Kai-Shek's leadership. Encourages the public to vote for Labor as a way of 'keeping the team together'. Also encourages the public to vote for Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings and Benjamin Courtice.
Defence Expenditure / QUEENSLAND FAVOURED / Compare / What Curtin Government has done / With / What Fadden-Menzies Tory Government did or failed to do, August 1943 (Item 1943/37) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer highlighting Labor's commitment to defence based on their defence works expenditures. Encourages the public to vote for Labor candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
Shocking Slum Conditions in Southern States / And / ACUTE HOUSING SHORTAGE / What About Your Housing Problems?, August 1943 (Item 1943/38) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 leaflet.
Leaflet highlighting Labor's housing plan. Encourages the public to vote for Labor candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
YOUNG SERVICE MEN and SERVICE WOMEN / ANTI-LABOR INSISTS, August 1943 (Item 1943/39) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer advocating for the right for service people under the age of 21 to vote even if they haven't served outside Australia. Encourages the public to vote for Labor candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
No Nation Is Making a More Supreme War Effort Than Australia - General MacArthur, August 1943 (Item 1943/40) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer encouraging the public to vote for Labor for "Effective war effort".
THE WAY TO VOTE LABOR / on August 21, c. 1943 (Item 1943/41) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer highlighting how to vote for Labor Senate and House of Representative candidates.
For THE SAFETY of Australia / Return The Curtin Government, c. 1943 (Item 1943/42) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer encouraging the public to vote for Labor to assure victory. Also encourages the public to vote for Labor senate candidates Don Cameron, R. V. Keane and J. M. Sheehan.
VOTE LABOR FOR SENATE / FILL IN ALL OTHER SQUARES, c. 1943 (Item 1943/43) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer encouraging the public to vote for Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
JOHN CURTIN'S Government / Cares for the Sick and Needy / Compare What Has Been Done By LABOR and Tory Governments, c. 1943 (Item 1943/44) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer comparing policies relating to social welfare. Encourages the public to vote for Labor senate candidates Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collings, and Benjamin Courtice.
Federal Elections / Endorsed Labor Candidates for Australia, c. 1943 (Item 1943/45) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer listing Labor senate candidates and the Queensland Labor House of Representatives candidates.
Then -- and NOW! / VOTE LABOR, c. 1943 (Item 1943/46) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer highlighting Labor's wartime efforts. Encourages the public to vote for Labor senate candidates Amour, John Armstrong and Donald Grant.
Australia's GUILTY MEN / MUST / NOT GET BACK AGAIN!, c. 1943 (Item 1943/47) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 leaflet.
Leaflet encouraging the public to vote for Labor and "Make Victory Certain!"
A.L.P. Selection Ballot / Senate Team Fourth Vacancy / Personal Statement by COOKE, J. A., c.1942 (Item 1943/48) - Box 24
Physical Description Note
1 flyer.
Flyer seeking public support for J. A. Cooke's bid to join the federal election Labor ticket.