Children’s literature is an important way to develop reading ability. I’m Australian Too is a realistic fiction, picture book written by the award-winning children’s author Mem Fox. Illustrated by Ronojoy Ghosh, this book was first published in 2017 by Scholastic Australia. This book has been chosen for its ability to be used across grades K-3 and for its five main features. These features include the theme of the book, which is the celebrating Australia’s multicultural heritage.
Australia got involved in Vietnam in an attempt to stop the spread of communism in South Vietnam and protect is position in the Asian Pacific; this is a key event in Australia’s history as it changed the course of Australia’s allegiances and almost lead to warfare on Australian soil. Though relating cause and effect by using numerous historical sources I will assess the key reasons why Australia got involved in the Vietnam War. Robert Menzies parliament address in 1965, an article from The Conversation describing the events 50 years later as well as multiple extracts from “Contested Spaces” by Thomas Cantwell and key extracts from the History textbook all illustrate the main reasons why Australia was keen to get involved in the war in South
Commencing in the terminating stages of 1941 was the Pacific war. A war which can now be considered not solely a pivotal moment for many nations in the world but also one of high significance for Australia too. Due to the traumatic occurrences throughout the Pacific War Australia was ultimately transformed into a nation which possessed equally more strength and confidence all of which blossomed from victories as well as new allies. However, the Pacific War also birthed and manifested a more immature and racist nation.
Before 1914 Australia had had very little experience of warfare. They had supported Britain in previous conflicts in New Zealand, Sudan and during the Boer war. Seeing as Australia was still very much connected with Britain during the time, when war was declared on Germany on the 4th August 1914 Australia was ready to fight alongside their ‘mother country’. The main reason that Australia was part of World War 1 was because of their loyalty to Britain.
World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war that centred in Europe and began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million soldiers and 7 million neutrals died as a result of the war. Australia’s involvement in the First World War began when Britain and Germany went to war on 4 August 1914, pledging full support for Britain. The outbreak of war was greeted in Australia, as in many other places, with great public enthusiasm. One of the most famous Australians in World War I was General Sir John Monash, an Australian who started off as a civil engineer and gradually became one of the best Allied generals of the First World War.
Australia’s experiences of World War II were significant for Australia and impacted on the shaping of our national identity. Australia 's response to entry into World War II in 1939 differed from Australia 's entry into World War I in 1914. Reasons for this includes attitudes towards war changing after gaining the knowledge and experiencing consequences of World War I, the conditions and lead up to World War II as well as Australia’s strong support for Britain. Firstly, the attitude of Australians changed due to World War 3I proving that war was not glamourous or exciting like it was assumed. During the lead up to World War II Australians had already struggled to survive through the depression and were now required to survive at war.
Although most post Second World War alliances with the United states (ANZUS and SEATO defence treaties) played a significant role in Australia going to war, it is only half of the story to just write off the decision as the Australian government blindly following American policy. It is paramount to understand that for latter half of the period preceding full-scale conflict in Vietnam, it was actually Australia who pushed American into further intervention in the region. Reasons as to why Australia would do such a thing are various in nature with the main contributing doctrines regarding communism primarily leading the hearts and minds of the general Australia population. Many Australians had a genuine fear of communism and its ability to, if allowed to, spread incessantly through the Asia-Pacific region and eventually destroy the ‘Australian way of life’. This fear of the ‘red menace’ would eventually culminate into two
In World War II (1939-1942), Australia was increasingly threatened by Japan’s advance towards its Homefront. Australia’s involvement in World War II as Britain’s colonial state was significant and the fall of Singapore is a moment that has been frozen in history for its sheer adversity. Japanese aggression towards western countries escalated in World War II and the fall of Singapore in 1942, led to the capture of 15,000 Australians who became prisoners of war of the Japanese. Australian troops were imprisoned within Asia in places such as Sandakan in Borneo, Changi in Singapore and camps along the Thai-Burma railway. The experiences of these prisoners and the qualities they exhibited have become a vital part of Australian history, however,
The women mostly took on the roles of that the men had been doing, such as working in heavy industry, farming, and forestry, railways, busses and taxi drivers. Woman had to deal with many consequences cause by the war such as, looking after children, family responsibilities, shortages of resources, living with fears of the future, grief and trauma of losing loved ones. The outbreak of World War 1 was caused by a man called Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated which other nations thought of as a threat. World War 1 started from 1914-18. Australia’s involvement began when Britain needed more soldiers to fight in the war.
The Vietnam War was one of the deadliest and long lasting wars of the 20th century; lasting 20 years from November 1955, ending in April 1975. Initially, the Vietnamese fought for independence from France and won in 1954 though the country was split into two ideologies, the communist North and the republican South. North Vietnam supported the Viet Cong insurgencies in the South resulting in the start of the war. The United States, Australia and other nations were directly involved in the fighting to defend South Vietnam from the Viet Cong and North Vietnam. The war eventually came to a stalemate until the North Vietnamese launched a surprise attack known as the Tet Offensive which proved to be the pivotal and decisive moment of the war.
VIETNAM WAR ASSIGNMENT: STRUCTURED NOTES MAIN TARGET POINTS: Cohesion and Division Social, Political, Economic(minor) Differing and Changing perspectives of the impact/ conflict Impact/Effects on groups/individuals Consequences of Australian involvement Continuity and Change HYPOTHESIS FOCUS QUESTIONS NATURE, ORIGINS AND PROGRESS OF THE VIETNAM WAR ON AUSTRALIA • By far one of the greatest influences of the Cold War on Australia was revealed in the Australian involvement towards the Vietnam conflict. • The Origins of the conflict in Vietnam stem from various different factors, these of which include: Vietnamese aspirations of nationalism and independence: These aspirations derive from colonial rulers such as Japan and France.
Should Australia change the date of Australia Day? Some of you may be wondering why this is such a controversial issue and some of you might already know. If you don’t know why I’ll tell you. The date that we celebrate Australia Day is not the date we became our own country, you may be thinking “so what?” well I’ll tell you, the day we are celebrating is the day Great Britain invaded Australia and the start of when they tortured and killed thousands of the Australian indigenous people, there are multiple dates available that were important to Australia or represent Australia and this date has no monument recognizing the day
Ethnocentrism occurs when one culture comes into contact with another. It the evaluation of one culture based on preconceived ideas that have derived from the customs and traditions from one’s own culture. William Summer, an American sociologist, believes that an ethnocentrism is “A view of things in which one’s own group is the centre of everything and all others are scaled and rated in reference to it” (Sorrells 2013). This phenomenon can have detrimental outcomes; such as stereotyping and prejudice both of which may hinder intercultural relations and assimilation therefore impacting on societal cohesion.
Australia is known as a country of freedom and fairness, however many groups such as youth, the unemployed, aged, and ethnic groups tend to become marginalised because of their minority status. Certain groups are marginalised because they are perceived as being different or undeserving of equality in society. This is called stereotyping and it leads to prejudice and discrimination. This essay explores three marginalised groups and discusses some of the reasons why they are marginalised and the effects on those within these groups. Exclusion from areas such as employment and other services and opportunities that other Australian 's take for granted, is a result of the marginality of indigenous Australian 's, woman, and those with
Scholars like Bill Nichols, Michael Chanan, and Jane Chapman argue that the filmmaker’s subjectivity inevitably corrupts any possibility for the attainment of objectivity and that no absolute truth or reality can be captured in documentary film; while scholars like Stephen Mamber and filmmakers who ascribed to the schools of cinema verite and direct cinema suggest that objectivity is attainable through filming real people in uncontrolled situations. “Documentary presents first-hand experience and fact by creating rhetoric of immediacy and ‘truth’, using technology, which involves the cameras. Part of the complications that surrounds the question of subjectivity and objectivity is rooted in the early claim that the camera does not lie”(Chapman, 2009) According to Nichols (2006), “documentary film is an art on expression and the documentarian’s concern is not to simply entertain but to win an audience’s assent.” Also, “due to the fact that there is an absence of fictionalized elements as one of documentary features, many people tend to believe that it brings us nearer to the truth.”
