In this opinion piece published in the Sunday Herald Sun on the 35th of January 2015, the writer, Dick Smith emotional expresses and exerts the “truth” of Australia Day, suggesting it should be named First Fleet Day contrastingly. Throughout the article Smith strongly expresses his stance on the issue, and attempts to persuade the reader by noting how this day of celebration traditionally makes Aboriginals feel. Smith’s tone is ever changing during the duration of the piece, changing to a more emotive and respectful tone when talking about the Aboriginals and what they have done to “nurture and sustain” our country. As Smith changes arguments as does his tone, when establishing his clear and coherent viewpoint, his tone is very forthright and …show more content…
Smith continues his pattern of strong emotive language whilst depicting the poor and inhumane treatment of the Aboriginals and how in accordance to the newly aquatinted British laws and customs, they were “for the most part, invisible and discounted”. Statements such as these are used to position the reader to feel sympathy towards the Aboriginals as they come to terms with the full extend of the hardship and discord faced by them. Moreover, adding to the understanding of how tirelessly throughout history and continuing today, they have fought to obtain rights equal to those of a white Australian. Smith then continues by appealing to the readers sense of sustainability. By recounting how the Aboriginals “nurtured” and “preserved” Australia and how the life of modern Australian isn’t sustainable, and how we, should seek guidance and assistance from the Aboriginals. The Aboriginals established and maintained a “rich” and “remarkable” culture, although now our “finite world” expanding exponential, will not survive. This strongly positions the reader by as mentioned, appealing to their sense of sustainability and future, it prospers a sense of fear in a way by predicting the future we may be predisposed to have, due to our current behaviour …show more content…
Smith establishes his self as a point of authority by included that he was the Chair of National Centenary of Federation council. This creates a image of authority and expertise, positioning the reader to respect Smith as someone who has both campaigned for this change, and, has a respectable position within our paramilitary system. Correspondingly, Smith advocate the date change by making the reader feel as if they can be apart of the solution, by included mass amounts of inclusive language. Words like “us” “we” “our” are repeated throughout the entire paragraph to create a sense of inclusion within the readers, this acts to unify readers to partake in the solution - that evidently being to change the date. To conclude, Smith include a poll at the to show the reader the popular opinion on the issue. This inclusion of statistics is no accident as it positions the reader to see how the rest of their country feels towards the issue. By included the polls, it forces the reader to come to terms with how popular deacons the is. This inadvertently instills an idea of popularity and agreeing with the masses in the reader to finally gauge their agreement on the
Synopsis The book I have chosen “Nanberry” is about parallel stories of different people during the period of the first settlers. There are about five main characters which follow the storyline in alternating chapters. The book opens to the year 1788, where Nanberry a young Indigenous Australian also the main character is playing by the sea watching strange ships arriving in the cove. More than a year later, Surgeon John White saves a sick and dying Nanberry from a rapid spread of small-pox in the indigenous people.
In contrast, Cromb illustrates her perspective with her use of attacks on “White Australia” to emphasise the futile change of date without first a treaty. Moore often refers back to “97 percent” of the population not identifying as Indigenous and therefore are unaware of the ‘invasion’ on this date. His ignorance is somewhat illustrated in a spelling error of Torres “Straight” Islander which can alarm the Torres Strait readers and make them feel attacked. Moore’s conversational tone alters to be more aggressive as he defends the idea of changing the date of a well-known Australian holiday. “Whether we like it or not” he proudly states that January 26th is the birth of modern Australia.
Boote argues that such an action would not help the men on the front, expressing his concern that it would instead ‘paralyse and pauperise’ the land that these men were sacrificing their lives for. The document is clearly a piece of propaganda. It features emotive language, calling upon the patriotism of Australian people in order to prevent the referendum being a success. Phrases such as ‘Keep Australia White’ and ‘Do not vote to ruin the country’ make the author’s standing on the potential policy changes clear.
Scott Sawyer’s opinion piece published in the Gladstone Observer on the 25th of January 2014, employs an informal tone to argue against the unnecessary racism often exhibited on Australia Day. The piece follows a train of thought as it transitions from an impartial positive tone to stern and disgusted. The article “Ditch the racism and enjoy Australia Day as it should be” states it’s contention in it’s title, clearly and concisely, continuing on to position the Australian population to agree to it’s contention using rhetorical questions, emotive and inclusive language and appeal to patriotism. The article displays a cartoon image of a cave man looking puzzled at a stone wheel, contemplating its existence and use. The image acts as a metaphor
Recently a controversy was being raised about changing the date of Australian Day, as it is considered the day when aboriginal lost their land and freedom. The issue is being discussed by the Yarra Council Mayor Cr Amanda Stone, who took the initiative to not only commemorate the British invasion of Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islanders land. Her main point in that article is to basically identify the Australian Day as a date which symbolizes loss of culture, language and the identity of ingenious people. This makes sense to us that the people affected by this issue are mainly Australian citizens (Aboriginals). Following this response, another article was published called, ‘Changing the date of Australian Day won’t change our past’ by Joe
How was conflict created between the Australians and Germans? (Intro) When WW1 was announced in Australia on the 4th of August 1914, every German person living in Australia was treated with hostility and suspicion as Germany was an enemy to Australia, all Australians thought that the Germans would support Germany, thus the conflict was created. Focus questions: 1. What was the impact for Germans living in Australia during WW1?
He continues on passionately and fades into a proud tone as he explains that Australia Day is a day to celebrate the country’s unique diversity, and multicultural nation. Through his use of inclusive language such as ‘we’ and ‘our’, Roberts-Smith is able to create a sense of inclusion for the reader and makes them realise that they should be celebrating their country’s unique diversity. Coupling this with the reinforcement from facts and statistics such as ’65 percent of Aussies marked the day in some way last year’ and ‘16,000 new Aussies chose Australia Day of all days to become Australia Citizens’, shows the reader the amount of pride the people in Australia have for their country. It is clear that Roberts-Smith is passionate about his point of view and arguments similar to Russell who is equally passionate about his arguments and point of view. In which each writers passion assists them in making their individual pieces more succinct and
Liddle expresses that the need to hold a survey itself displays the radio station’s lack of support for the Aboriginal community and informs the audience that “60% of the people who responded to the Triple J survey supported a change of date for the countdown”, suggesting “… as far as younger generations are concerned society is becoming more aware”, however juxtaposes this with Triple J’s inadequacy and disappointment at the fact that “there’s still a way to go before the message permeates its ranks”. The audience is able to view the prevalent support throughout Australia as a nation with Liddle’s use of statistical information, regarding the change of date and how this smaller issue supports the move of changing the date of Australia Day as a whole. Likewise, Liddle positions the individual who linger around the issue and remain unaware and unsupportive, as the minority as “now being majority support for a date change”. This furthermore conveys criticism of Triple J, “who do not mention that the major reason 26 January has become contentious is due to what the date means to Indigenous groups”, however in order to escape adopting a supportive stance, provide an excuse of “new programming”. The author continues to expose Triple J’s motives to the readers who have been misinformed and displaying their lack of acknowledgement as to what this day means to the Aboriginals, insinuating that fact that it was purely implemented as a commercial change.
The history of Aboriginal alienation was an important context that assisted Silvey in the making of his novel, and furthermore establishing a successful play. The year 2009 was an influential year for Aboriginal’s rights. After twenty years of negotiation, the United Nations
The social changes of ANZAC Day are reflected positively in Damian Morgan’s poem Sir. The poem expresses that despite the change within society, the unaffected, well-kept ANZAC Spirit will transcend throughout the ages, for it is the bases of our nationalism. This is evident with Morgan’s use of imaginative language that represents the pride, respect, and gratitude the nation has for this day and the service people involved. With poetry’s influence, ANZAC Day will continue to spread the nationalistic pride to all Australians throughout years to
(d) “Before we can grasp what it means to 'be Australian ' today, it is essential that we understand the interdependence of Indigenous dispossession and colonial possession” (p. 12). Elaborate on Phillip 's statement. Australian history is generally known as separate historical thresholds which is the history known by both the Indigenous and non-Indigenous. However, the concept of interdependence of both of these histories is significant to the cultural aspects of us being 'Australian ' hence is demonstrated through the concepts of cohesion and
As patriotic Australians we pride ourselves to be a nation that accepts and respects the beliefs of all cultures, but on this historical day majority of Australians tend to forget the true meaning behind the celebration. If you ask today’s society, what they did this Australia day mass numbers would respond with “binged on alcohol” and “indulged in a barbecue.” Consequently, this day cannot be called a national celebration when some of our fellow Australians are grieving while others are out celebrating an occasion they know little about. Giving due regard to the indigenous people and their mostly negative perspective on this issue should be a priority. A new date, not the 26th of January should be established, as rather than unite, it seems to divide Australians into different viewpoints.
The poem My Mother The Land by Phill Moncrieff poetically describes the struggles the aboriginal people faced with loss of their country, culture, identity, people and place at the hands of the European people and colonisation throughout history. Overall the poem effectively positions the reader to feel sympathy and empathy toward the aboriginal people and strong antipathy towards the European people furthermore it helps the reader understand the importance of country, culture, identity, people and place to the aboriginal
This article discusses the speech given by an Indigenous journalist, Stan Grant who participated in a debate where he spoke for the motion “Racism is destroying the Australian Dream’’. Hence, the main points of this article are mostly evidence given by Grant in his debate to support his idea that the Australian Dream is indeed rooted in racism. One of the main points is that the indigenous Australians are often excluded and disregarded as non-Australians simply due to their race and skin colour. Grant pointed out the incident where AFL player Adam Goodes was publicly jeered and told that he did not belong to his country as he was not an Australian despite the fact that Australia indeed is the land of his ancestors.
Where have you ever seen or heard of a monument for this day? Is there a special plark where the first fleet landed? Is there a statue to commemorate this date? No, then what's the point of celebrating this date if we don’t even preserve it? People may say this is a day that is only about Australia and that is why it should continue to be this date, but I'm sorry to burst those people's bubbles.