Through film and text, the Australian identity is demonstrated through this idea of mateship as both Gallipoli and the eureka poem demonstrates a portrayal that the term ‘mate’ is represented to identify the relationship between men during times of challenge and how men were seen to be brave people, and would help their mates through tough times. It serves this purpose of mutual respect, and unconditional assistance. Mateship shares an explicit concept that can be betrayed back to early colonial times. For example, the harsh environment in which convicts and new settlers found themselves meant that men and women closely relied on each other for all sorts of help.
The Australian representation of mateship is portrayed through the sense of one being brave, fighting against the odds, and to always stick with that one mate to protect one another no matter what comes towards them, and most of all to always have a joke and have fun with each other. The …show more content…
It is a word interchangeable with the term ‘digger’. Mateship was a particular Australian virtue, a creed, almost a religion. This portrayal comes into relation with the poem ‘eureka’ by Henry Lawson, where he writes about the time of the eureka stockade, where it was known and was fought between miners and the colonial forces of Australia on 3 December 1854 at Eureka Lead and named for the stockade structure erected by miners during the conflict. 'Eureka Stockade', is a key event in the development of Australian democracy and Australian identity, with some people arguing that Australian democracy was born at Eureka. In addition, the principles of mateship, seen to be adapted by the gold diggers, and the term digger' This poem portrays the idea of ‘mateship’ as a term of affection, arguably due to the trench-digging aspect of the war. It serves this idea of supporting one another, and always looking out for your