Description
Photomontage screenprint. Fabriano Rosaspina printmaking paper 285 gsm, 500mm x 700mm
A dingo stands in the foreground, beside two DC-3 aeroplanes – these large aircraft were re-assigned after World War II to dispense poison baits by air over Queensland, and were used into the 1960s. Today smaller planes like the Cessna are the aircraft of choice, but the theme is the same – newspaper clips from 1947 to 2022 announcing numerous “One Million Baits” programs to kill dingoes have been published in papers across Australia – using war rhetoric in the headlines, and the number “one million” is apparently is symbolic shorthand for the scale and government commitment towards the eradication of the dingo, rather than precise accounting.
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