Australian Postal Service has issued five new stamps with a postage value of 50 Cents each named "Working Dogs" on the 10th of June 2008. These stamps depict the images of 5 different dogs that contribute to mankind today. Not only are these dogs used for guarding a home, but they are also being trained to do an assortment of different jobs. Each dog is described in the list below:

• German Shepherd (Top Left) - are used extensively by police to apprehend violent offenders, tracking missing persons, locating weapons, explosives, and narcotics.
• Australian Cattle Dog (Top Middle) - are natural herders by nature and can drive cattle over very long distances.
• Beagle (Top Right) - has a sense of smell 100 times more acute than humans making it ideal as a quarantine detector. Today, it is trained to detect 30 different items of quarantine concerns.
• Border Collie (Bottom Left) - these dogs are natural herders of sheep and have high energy levels.
• Labrador (Bottom Right) - know to be used as retrievers for fisherman. But because of there calm temperament, they are also very good guide dogs for the blind.