This confronting advertising campaign ran for only three weeks in the 1980s, but it is seared on the nation's collective memory

By Amy Lay, National Archives of Australia Senior Curator
Updated May 25 2020 - 7:25am, first published 12:00am
The Grim Reaper from the Australian Government's AIDS awareness campaign, 1987. Picture: National Archives of Australia: M3794, 15
The Grim Reaper from the Australian Government's AIDS awareness campaign, 1987. Picture: National Archives of Australia: M3794, 15

At first, only gays and IV drug users were being killed by AIDS.

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