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Fantasy - Government of Australia - UTAH Australian Political Note
| Issuer | Australia |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 3 Dollars 3 AUD = EUR 1.84 |
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| Obverse lettering | THREE DOLLARS 3 GOVERNMENT OF AUSTRALIA - UTAH |
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| Reverse lettering | UTAH ........ THE RAPIST OF AUSTRALIA UTAH — plunders Australia of its natural resources. UTAH — is the greatest profit maker in Australia's history. UTAH — exports nearly all of its profit to the U.S.A. UTAH — received an annual tax concession of $24,000,000 in the 1976 budget. UTAH — received a further $16,000,000 annually in the 1977 budget. UTAH — exports this yearly gift of $40,000,000 (from the pocket of the Australian taxpayer) direct to the U.S.A. UTAH — uses an ex-Australian actor who knows not what he says to publicise Utah's phony Australian image. UTAH — employs cheap labour foreign seamen in tax-dodging 'flag-of-convenience' vessels. UTAH — will not employ Australian seamen in their vessels despite the fact that their tax handout would more than foot the bill. Employing Australian seamen would at least keep a small portion of the super profits in Australia, assist in rectifying to a small degree the calamitous state of the economy and create more jobs for the Australian worker. UTAH — crowns all other insults by claiming damages from the Seamen's Union of Australia for daring to seek work for Australian seamen. |
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UTAH Development Company operated one of Australia's largest open-cut coal mining operations in Queensland during the 1970s, and this note belongs to a broader genre of Australian political fantasy notes produced during that decade to comment on foreign corporate influence over domestic resources. The UTAH series circulated not as currency but as satirical ephemera — distributed at rallies, union meetings, and through political networks during debates over resource nationalism that culminated in the Fraser government's foreign investment policy reviews.
Collectible primarily for its documentary value as protest material rather than any printing distinction.