Part of our policy is to collect ephemera. The value of such fugitive material for research can be shown by referring to political fliers such as this from north Queensland in 1963. The cry to populate the north has been constant in Australia since the mid-nineteenth century. Fear of invasion forms an under-current in the Australian psyche. Under the heading, "The real threat" the author of this pamphlet has this to say, "The real threat to Australia’s future may prove to be not a nuclear bomb in a dictator’s hands but a hungry baby in an Asian mother’s arms."
