Assessment Task Essay The Legendary Australian The Australian Legend has been forged through the hard work and independent, adventurous spirit of Australia's first pioneer settlers. Their experiences of Australia's defining and pinnacle moments and the toil associated with the ha...

'Writing hands us back the reins...' Paul Kelly Post colonial literature and imperial history pass like ships in the night. Indeed, the emblematic preoccupation of Australian literature: canonical and contemporary, wi...

Gallipoli Essay The slogan advertised for Peter Weir's 'Gallipoli' was one of power and truth. ¡°From a legend we will always remember, comes a story you will never forget¡± conveys the dominancy of the film and the influential impact upon its audience. Furthermore, it magnifies th...

An Australian film Rabbit Proof Fence directed by Philip Noyce is reliable to an historian studying the Protection policies of the Australian Government during the 1930's in that it tells a true story about three Aboriginal children who were taken away from their families because they were half-cast...

Town life in Australia Houses There are three periods in the growth of housing development; the first stage is the Log-hut. Thus also known as the 'weatherboard cottage', and eventually is taken over by the second and third stage brick and stucco. The log-hut stage is well past its...

The Eureka Stockade, which took place on Ballarat in 1854, can be seen as speeding up the process of democracy and self-government, but it cannot be classed as a turning point in Australia's history. The colonies were already on the track of democracy when the Eureka Stockade took p...