In October 1939 he became Minister in charge of Scientific and Industrial Research, and during November–December 1939 he was Acting Minister for Air and Civil Aviation. On 26th January 1966 Holt became the Prime Minister of Australia. While Prime Minister he dismantled some of the remaining traces of the White Australia policy that had excluded non-British and later non-European immigrants since Federation. The referendum of 1967, in which Aboriginal people were counted in the census and gave the Commonwealth government power to legislate for indigenous people, also occurred under Holt's stewardship. Holt also supporting the United States with Lyndon B. Johnson in what became the Vietnam War, and most particularly the policy of conscription in which randomly chose young Australian men were sent to Vietnam to
He dedicated his life to fighting for recognition and equality for Indigenous Australians. Investigate methods of protest available to Eddie during the 1970s and 1980s. Using the Timeline and video From Little Things Big Things Grow as your reference, in 200 words describe the platforms available to challenge government decisions and encourage public debate between 1970 and
I think that this letter would not be appropriate in Australia today as were not in an era were racism is tolerated and we don’t judge people on where their parents were born. 4. Assisted Immigration (1940s) a) During this time what was happening in the world that led to people wanting to find new homes? Why were people assisted to come to Australia? In 1946, World War II was in session and many families were in danger.
The direct speech in the poem emphasises this barrier to belonging, the barrier being a combination of the lack of English my father spoke and understood, as well as the impatience and negative attitude towards migrants by some Australians at that time period. This resulted in my father being isolated from the Australian community and its culture. I: We’ll switch gears now to Shaun. Shaun, in your graphic novel The Arrival, a scene in the novel is similar to the situation Peter’s father Feliks faced. Could you elaborate further on that please, and just give a brief description of the
Lourdes Buie Professor Whalen English 67 M TH 1:20 – 4:00 03 July 2013 Summary of “At Ellis Island” Irving Howe, an author, wrote a book in 1976 called World of Our Fathers. In World of Our Fathers, a section called “At Ellis Island “traces the story of Eastern Europe’s immigrants to America. This excerpt offers a rich portrayal of the European immigrants experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their culture while becoming Americans. It has an understanding as to why these people made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new European Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century. The section of the book we were given starts off with the immigrant’s arrival into New York sometime in the 1900’s.
The Australian Capital Territory was declared on the first of January 1911 and became a self governing territory in 1989. It was Sir Walter Gurley Griffin who designed Canberra. In 1901, through the federation of the 6 states under a single constitution, the commonwealth of Australia was formed. Edmond Barton became Prime Minister and Lord Hopetoun became governor-general. One of the first acts of the new Commonwealth Parliament was to pass the immigration restriction act, which restricted migration to people of primarily European
In September, 1846, there were discussions in the Legislative Council in NSW as to the need for some control to be made over “intercolonial legislation.” Two weeks later, Governor Fitz Roy suggested “some superior functionary” be appointed, with the power to review and, if necessary, disallow legislation of all colonies on anything other than local matters. These suggestions have been regarded as the first move towards Federation. The next move came from Britain, when, in 1847, Earl Grey, then the Secretary of State for the colonies, suggested a “central authority” be created in Australia to regulate matters affecting more than one colony. Then, in November 1880, an intercolonial conference in Melbourne, attended by representatives from NSW, SA and Victoria, agreed to resolutions moved by Henry Parkes in favour of the establishment of a Federal Council. As you can tell by reading this, there were many reasons how and why Australia became a Federation.
On the morning of Sunday, 25 April 1915, thousands of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, along with allies from France and Britain, landed on the beaches of Gallipoli. Ever since, the landing at Gallipoli has created a powerful image of national identity for Australians. The aim of this essay is to discuss and analyse the ideas about the national identity constructed by two different documents, an article written in 1915 by war correspondent C.E.W Bean and a letter written in 1914 by David Gordon. Both documents explain the courage and mateship of the Anzacs, constructing similar national images. In this essay the national identity/images constructed by both articles will be identified and the political/cultural/social circumstances contributing to these images will be recognised.
Peter’s lack of belonging is felt throughout this poem as he cannot truly appreciate his father’s Polish heritage against the mainstream Australian culture that Peter has grown up in. This is established when Peter quotes ” I inherited unknowingly – “. In that quote, Peter has cleverly used enjambment to create a feeling of empathy from the responders at Peter’s lack of involvement in his culture. Furthermore in the last stanza of the
Eidson influenced my first impressions of Nat Swanson by persuading me to believe he was a bad and lonely character from the start of the novel. Eidson clearly demonstrates Nat Swanson as a lone ranger, a one-man gang and a loner in this story. At first Eidson reflects on Nat Swanson’s history to reflect his characteristics. Nat Swanson lost his whole family in an incident involving Comanche’s at a young age and was passed around foster homes. He felt abandoned because he also knew himself that he was only taken in by family for his work ethics but not for the caring and love of a child.