Different visions of Australia are represented through the poetry of Robert Gray and Jeannie Baker’s picture book. While Australia is often presented as a land of diversity, some texts also discuss the complex relationship between humans and the environment to be one of renewal, or in contrast, destruction. All three texts emphasise the strong connection between man and the environment, and…. Through the composer’s view of Australia we begin to understand the diversity and complex nature of Australian culture. Australia is a peaceful and diverse country with natural beauty, however man-made aspects can be a threat.
The use of fairytale allusion in “a princess out of tower” is symbolic of the caring and kindness of Australian public to animals. It also indicates typical Australians’ feelings of protection and sympathy toward the underdogs. Most Australians would concede that this is an accurate and widely held vision of the strength of the Australian
This is a person, who, through fervent poetry has opened the minds of all Australians in seeing a different perspective of the land we live on. This poet is somewhat of a realist and is not afraid to speak their mind and stand up for what is right. Oodgeroo Noonuccal certainly does not praise Australia, but she has created a better society and environment for all Indigenous peoples of Australia. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, born as
Have we contributed enough in Australian Foreign Aid for other countries? Australian Foreign Aid has been a prominent topic debated among not only in Australian politics, by Australian people but also discussed by international leaders as they too have a Foreign Aid system in place. Some believe that Foreign aid is not paramount; maybe they are blinded by ignorance because Foreign aid covers Health care, education, ensuring rights and disaster preparation when supposedly needed. Do we not want to see a world where people everywhere can enjoy good health? I believe that persisting Australian Foreign Aid should be our top priority.
However it takes an Australian to understand the Australian humour and way of life and this could explain why the film was a bomb at the American box office. Despite the repetition, the puns and corny obvious jokes, this is how the film was meant to be and it worked. The portrayal of Australians in this film is somewhat of a two-sided sword, on one side the films characters are uneducated, dim witted, lower class people who eat basic meals and go on dull holidays. Australians are strong willed, persistent loving people who may be all of the above but are the happiest people in the world because they have each other. Examples of this are revealed throughout the film, like when the family goes to their holiday home at Bonnie Doon.
The 30% “no religion” and “religion not stated” in the 2006 census is exemplary of the increase in the New Age movements and the rise in secularism in Australia. The New Age movement’s various religious and secular philosophies create appealing alternatives to conventional religious traditions. This is also notable in secularism where religious perspectives are abandoned in an attempt to find non-religious answers to life’s questions. This has had a significant impact on Christianity and other world religions in Australia as adherents begin to convert to these alternatives after the counterculture movement that had followed a perspective of being open to new ways of thinking and doing creating a decline in world religions while presenting a growth in the New Age and secularist
Though only fifty years ago, the post WWII ear held an immensely different set of rights and freedoms for indigenous people. From settlement to 1950, Aboriginals were considered little more than “part of the landscape.” Indeed, paternalistic attitudes through the Policy of Protection ensured that they were not counted in the Australian census, instead considered fauna. These attitudes and the rights and freedoms corresponding to them have been altered by the gradual policy changes between WWII and the present era. In 1950, the policy of Assimilation was introduced- the first step away from the restrictive policy of protection. Assimilation was completely culturally insensitive- in fact, the purpose of assimilation was to eradicate and Aboriginal culture or language through a forced induction
From "I love a sunburnt country", MacKellar begins inducing the idea of Australia not just being a lifeless piece of land, but equivalent and sharing similar characteristics of a person. By referring to the land as "she" or "her", which is present in "I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, -for flood and fire and famine she pays us back threefold", MacKellar exhibits her deep connection and passion for being Australian. Furthermore, the use of imagery interrelates to the whole concept of patriotism, within the use of descriptive language to represent the landscapes, this places an emphasis on her love for her country, an attribute for which many Australians
Though techniques like personification and imaginary Slesser and Mackellar could show more effectively how they view Australia in their eyes . As they both have similar meaning and purpose for their poems which is ultimately the love for their country. I chose these two poems because
They chose Australia because they can send their convicts there as there is no more space for any more convicts in Britain. Also there were natural resources and minerals in Australia Britain wanted. Many British people moved to Australia because they did not want to live in a land of over population, poverty and hunger. There was also the discovery of gold