Women's Suffrage In Australia

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SPEECH Hook - My great, great grandmother was a suffragette; she campaigned for the right for women to vote in elections in Australia. In the late 1800’s in Australia, women were still considered the property of their husbands or fathers. She was also the head of the Housewives Association Sydney, which became a considerable lobbying force on issues affecting women and children generally. But how far has this push for equality amongst the sexes really come? Greeting Audience - Good morning Mrs Anderson and fellow students. Overarching idea about identity - Identity can be defined on a broad scale as the role/s played by each individual shaped by cultural conditioning, customs and a different lifestyle based on self-decisions.…show more content…
This repetition of ‘nice’ suggests a rather pleasing, but mundane existence in suburbia and a fairly conservative mindset. By using repeated phrases -………Browne suggests that every day the routine is the same. For example: Mr Piggott, the father and husband commands “Hurry up with breakfast dear” “every morning before he heads off to his very important job.” The characters are very two dimensional – we only know them as Mr and Mrs Piggott, Simon and Patrick. Mrs Piggott is only addressed as ‘dear”, ‘mum’ and ‘old girl’. She is not even given a name, but rather, is identified by her roles only. This depersonalisation adds to a generalized view of this ‘typical’ woman. She is a stereotype. In fact, she does not utter an entire word throughout the story, she is metaphorically ‘gagged” and prevented from having a say at all. Other than when she leaves the note saying “you are pigs” to get an insight into how fed up she is with the situation. She literally has to remove herself from the home in an effort to force

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