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If the unemployed are dole bludgers, what the fuck are the idle rich?, 1979

If the unemployed are dole bludgers, what the fuck are the idle rich?

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Screenprint, printed in colour ink, from five stencils, on lithographic paper
Undesignated impression, as issued
75.8 × 88.0cm (sheet)
Printed by the artist, at Griffith Artworks print studio, Griffith University, Meanjin / Brisbane. Commisioned by the film production company Steel City Pictures
Other impressions of this artwork are held in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Australia, QAGOMA and more.
 

The first poster from Redback Posters during Michael Callaghan's time at Griffith University, Meanjin / Brisbane, preceding the establishment of Redback Graphix in Woolyungah / Wollongong in 1980. Redback Posters was initially pitched as an 'advertising agency for the left'.

The most iconic poster from this significant political screenprinting workshop. 

 

 
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Michael Callaghan was the founder of the political poster workshop Redback Graphix (1980-1994).

 
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