...Good evening to everyone present here at the RSL during a time of great commemoration, Australia Day. It’s certainly a pleasure to be standing in front of such an audience and a great honour to be given a chance to present a speech challenging an imperative matter engraved in Australian society. Australia has seen a copious change throughout its short history. Although this nation has achieved vast glory in a marginal amount of time, the current standing of our nation is leading us down an unrealistic path set for the younger generation. Owning a home has long been a Great Australian Dream. Now with house costs are at an all-time high along with the loss of job security, how can Australia be a thriving country when the cost of living presents an impracticable expectation for young adults? What will the future look like for your kids, and the...
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...The ideal “Bush-Woman“ in Henry Lawson‘s The Drover‘s Wife Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Australia - a Land for Men 2 3. Women in Australia 2 3.1 The “Bush-Woman“ in “The Drover‘s Wife“ 2 3.2 The role of Australian Women 2 3.3 Australian Feminism 2 4.Conclusion 2 5.Bibliography 3 6. Declaration of Authenticity 1. Introduction “[...] she fought a bad bullock that besieged the house for a day“ (Lawson 6). This would probably be a challenge for a man not for a woman. But in Henry Lawson‘s point of view this and fighting snakes and diseases are things women in the Australian bush are capable of doing as presented in The Drover‘s Wife. Henry Lawson (1867-1922) is the finest author and poet in Australia's colonial period and had a big focus on the Australian bush and life. He is famous for his works such as The Drover‘s Wife which got first published 1892 in The Bulletin - an Australian magazine of great importance. In his short story The Drover‘s Wife Lawson presents a mother with her children in a dangerous living situation in the Australian bush, “Lawson‘s story created the archetype of the pioneer bush-woman, a heroic mother left on her own by the drover husband, resigned to her fate, battling against the elements and winning“ (Carrera-Suarez...
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...In a style of almost the same all of his book “ A Walk in the Woods, Bryson’s research enabled him to include many stories about Australia explorers who suffered extreme, not having needed or wanted things, as well as detail about its valuable things from nature culture, and process of people making, selling, and buying things. Bill Bryson describes his travels throughout Australia, his conversations with people in all walks of life about the history, geography, unusual plants and animals of the country interested. His writings are twisted together with repeating humorous themes, especially in the chapter of crossing Australia that he make constant reference to drinking of urine to survive. Three parts: • INTO THE OUTBACK • CIVILIZED AUSTRALIA...
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...and not reduce history to a shallow field of point scoring. I believe that there is much that is worth preserving in the cultural heritage of our dispossessors as a nation, the Australian community has a collective consciousness that encompasses a responsibility for the present and future, and the past. To say that ordinary Australians who are part of the national community today do not have any connection with the shameful aspects of our past is at odds with our exhortations that they have connections to the prideful bits. If there is one thing about the colonial heritage of Australia that indigenous Australians might celebrate along with John Howard it must surely be the fact that upon the shoulders of the English settlers or invaders-call them what you will, came the common law of England and with it the civilised institution of native title. What more redemptive prospect can be painted about our country's colonial past?(65) From this perspective, the black armband view of history is a strand of 'political correctness'-the dominant but erroneous view of how we see ourselves and what we see as worthwhile in our culture. Historical understanding cannot be fixed for all time, Out of the present emerge new problems that require a re-examination of the past. The question we must ask is not “does history have to be rewritten?” but “does the re-evaluation of history lead to the discovery of historical truth?” In other words, does the re-evaluation of history deepen our understanding...
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...Women in the Australian colonies: Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Women in Australia colonies Port Philip grew at an amazing rate in the 1830s when free settlers and female convicts were sent to Victoria to respond to the labor shortage. Women were outnumbered by men with a ration 1 to seven respectively. Women were the small population and were the most vulnerable proportion of the whole population. Initially, the majority of women were unmarried free settlers. There was a great demand for single women to serve as house servants, and the government covered the travel expenses to Victoria with families or married couples. . However, the free female settlers were still vulnerable as they were not lucky enough to get employment and they had to meet their financial needs. If they lost their job or get pregnant, they were forced to depend on charitable organizations or move to the streets. . For the convicts that were sent to Port Philip, the place was worse, with prostitution being their unspoken sentence. Life was difficult on arrival as convict women were taken to settlers households to serve as domestic servants. Some were lucky to marry and start new lives, but the majority of them were victims of prostitution and crime. For the most women, de facto relationships or marriage ensured they were protected and provided for from the rough elements of the society, and security was given at a price. Alcohol was too common in the settlements...
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... Why did the Australian cross the road? Wait, what is "the Australian"? Aussie Films are renowned for their quirky, representation of a character, often using exaggeration to exemplify something significant about the inimitable nature of Australian cultural identity and accent. The 1997 film The Castle, produced by Rob Sitch, is about Darryl Kerrigan, an Aussie battler fighting for his home after they have been told they must move out by the airport authorities. The film shows the chain of events the Kerrigan family must face and how they overcome them. The movie employs the use of a range of techniques to construct the characters of Darryl. Darryl is the prime representation of a typical Australian. Darryl Kerrigan is the Aussie battler described in the film. Australians can identify with Darryl though his actions and morals. This is expressed through the many techniques the film has used to represent ole mate. Darryl is a father that many Australians can to relate to as their own father. Although Darryl's character may be exaggerated, you are still able to identify with him on some level. Darryl is a hard working Aussie man who is optimistic and has good values and principles. Darryl believes they live in the land of luxury, even though he lives right next to the airport he still loves it. This expresses that he is always looking on the bright side and being able to appreciate the simple things in life and therefore proposes that Australians are quite down-to-earth. An example...
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...On 26th of January 1788, an old ship occupied by British convicts arrived at Sydney Cove, where Governor Arthur Philip raised the Flag of Great Britain. Two hundred and thirty years later, the traditional owner of the Australia land had persisted in protesting the date of the Australia Day. The March of Freedom, Justice and Hope which took place in 1988, had summoned more than 40,000 people, including both aboriginals and non-aboriginals, to chant for land rights through the street of Sydney. The pressure on the nation to resolve conflicts about the relationship between aboriginals and European arrivals had never ceased to mount. An Australia Institute survey has shown that only 37 percent of people recognised that the celebration of Australia Day on January 26th may be offensive to aboriginals. Additionally, nearly half of those – 49 percent – acknowledged that the National Day should not be celebrated on a day that offends certain populations. These statistics are not new and shouldn’t be a surprise to us. No one denies that at least 40,000 years...
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...I have chosen Australia and the small, scattered islands of the Federated States of Micronesia to compare in my paper. Australia would fall into the “more developed” region, due to its booming cities, low unemployment rate, and over all healthy economy. The islands of Micronesia are in the “less developed” category due to the fact that they have high unemployment rates, are fiercely dependent on foreign aid, and have a massive gap between classes. Australia has been named one of the best places in the world to live for many reasons, and has nearly always drawn immigrants. It was first settled in 1788, mostly by British convicts. Eventually free men began to immigrate when a rich supply of gold was discovered in the mid-19th century. Of course,...
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...Fall of Singapore made a dramatic influence on the political views of Australia. Before world war, Australia were in partnership with Great Britain, as they had enormous amounts of respect towards the country. Australia viewed Great Britain as the “Mother country” and though that teaming up with them would give them the best outcome of war. This was not the case, on March 26th 1942, Australia only wanted to work with America. Australia wanted the efforts of the United States of America’s soldiers and John Curtin created...
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...Religious diversity has enriched Australian culture and brought Australia together as a community through it’s learning about other cultures, celebrating other cultural events or being part a religious organisation. Religion is important to many people whether they are Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, or another religion. Religion becomes part of their daily life though practices and traditions. All these religions have different beliefs and practices that are focused around one God or multiple Gods/Goddesses. In the 2011 Census, Christians represented 61% of the population. Non-Christians represented about 8% of the population while about 31% of the population stated they had no religion or did not state their religion. Aboriginal Australians...
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...Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have rich and diverse cultures, societies and histories that have been historically overlooked and degraded by other Australians. In 2008 Kevin Rudd made an official apology to Indigenous peoples across Australia for the suffering they had endured. The apology significantly impacted the lives of Indigenous Australians as this recognition acted as a fresh start to Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations. Furthermore, this historical event has been key to transforming educational practices, as Indigenous cultural and historical knowledge becomes more relevant to 21st Century teaching and learning in Australia. This essay will discuss the National Apology, its affects on Indigenous peoples and the...
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...Australia’s history is striking in that immigration, in a myriad of forms, essentially gave life to the nation as it is today. Australia has long been considered a prime location for asylum seekers, with it’s stable governance, high quality of life and already established immigrant communities, it is easy to see why individuals seeking asylum from religious or ethnic persecution, conflict or despotism choose Australia to lodge their claims. Be it Europeans escaping Soviet expansion post World War 2 or South Vietnamese allies fleeing Vietnam following the fall of Saigon in 1975, the development of Australia’s history and culture is inseparably linked to these Asylum seekers who come “across the sea” to our boundless plains. Australia continues to receive asylum seekers in the 21st century however there has been an apparent shift in the nations psyche towards these asylum seekers. A moral panic is defined as a disproportionate response to a perceived threat by one group towards another. Is the reaction to Asylum seekers in Australia an example of moral panic?...
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...Introduction This paper discusses how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) histories and cultures (“the histories and cultures”) can be incorporated into a Year 10 history classroom curriculum. The classroom curriculum is the practical unfolding of the formal, written curriculum between teacher and student. For incorporating histories, three overt, practical ways are discussed: role play, writing an Acknowledgement of Country and interpreting a movie which incorporates the perspectives of ATSIs. For incorporating cultures, the eight-way Aboriginal pedagogies outlined by Tyson Yunkaporta (2009a) are discussed along with how the classroom curriculum can be adapted to incorporate such cultural techniques. Indigenous history and culture...
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...nation created for Australia’s pavilion at Expo’70. The critique offered is from an environmental perspective, using this example to lead into a broader reflection on Australian design history’s ‘modernity problem’. We argue that although the examination of Australia as a socio-cultural context for the practice of design continues to engage scholars, the will to profess the existence of progressive Australian design has precluded significant examination of design’s regressive effects. The current environmental crisis is, as Arturo Escobar argues, ‘a crisis of modernity, to the extent that modernity has failed to enable sustainable worlds.’[1] Design is implicated here for its contribution to environmental degradation, as is design history for accounts that validate designers’ development of concepts, processes and products that impose the unsustainable on societies. The latter is pronounced in Australian design history. When modernity and its cultural manifestations are understood as European inventions, admitting limited scope for cultural exchange, claiming historical significance for Australian design inevitably involves the uncritical application of imported principles.[2] The halting attempts to write Australian design history are mostly bound up in proselytizing for the values and benefits of the modern and eulogising designers’ efforts to force change in the face of conservative cultural establishments and indifferent publics. Even the most recent treatments continue to be engulfed...
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...Cultural Diversity in Australia Paper by John Thompson, Collection Research, Documentation and Promotion, for the National Conservations and Preservation Strategy Public Forum, October 1996. Introduction This paper has been written in response to an invitation from the Conservation Working Party of the Heritage Collections Committee of the Cultural Ministers Council. Its purpose is to consider the implications of cultural diversity in Australia in a program which seeks to implement the National Conservation and Preservation Policy for Movable Cultural Heritage issued by the Heritage Collections Committee of the Cultural Ministers Council in September 1995. That document included ten policy statements intended to provide the framework for a proposed National Conservation Strategy which might pave the way for a concerted effort to improve the conservation status of heritage collections in Australia. In relation to cultural diversity, the statement of policy (Policy Statement 2) was expressed as follows: The Commonwealth, State, Territory and Local Governments acknowledge the diversity of cultures of the Australian people which should be reflected in the definition and identification of movable cultural heritage. Expressed in this way, the policy statement does little more than state the obvious that Australia is a culturally diverse community and that efforts, unspecified, should be made to ensure that justice is done to this demographic and social reality in the programs which...
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