Australian History Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (354) essays
Australian History essays:
Ned Kelly
... of people define the words hero and villain in many different ways. Webster's dictionary defines a hero as "one that shows great courage". Webster's dictionary also defines the word villain as "a person or thing blamed for a particular evil or difficulty ...
Racism on the Australian Goldfields
... few short years, from the beginning of the 1850s to the early 60s, thousands of people flocked to Australia. The ships that brought them often swung empty at their moorings as both crews and passengers swarmed inland toward makeshift camps. The lure was gold. With so many immigrants from different ...
Entertainment Music and Television
... Australia just in time for the Melbourne Olympic Games. The first broadcast was in September 1956. The early TV sets costed a fortune for the average household so you would often see crowds of people looking through the shop windows at the black and white TV screens. In the first year of ...
Construction of Australian morality through animation
... hero, an icon to those who mocked him. The use of character differentiation provides a safe framework for criticism and allows the moral cause to be understood. Disney's "the Lion King" develops the traits of two different character. The animation creates a binary opposition of ...
Australia in the 1950s
... of a supposedly fair competition. News, music programs and sport made their way to the living rooms of more than 50% of the families in Australia by the end of 1959. Television gradually developed from being a grainy black and white screen that broadcasted a few ...
The changing role of indigenous people in Australia from 1960 to 1975.
... Early 1965, white student supporters alongside Black activist traveled to NSW by bus, to let the general population know hat Aboriginals were unable to publicly be seen flanking white people in communal properties. These were labelled the 'Freedom Rides' and were inspired by the United States of ...
immigration policies of Australia and is the whitlam governemnt mainly responsible for multicultural Australia today?
... and isolated Australia into a culturally diverse society. Australians living in major cities could enjoy films and live entertainment from many different parts of the world, join in festivals of other cultures and eat styles of food from all over the world. In conclusion, since 1945 nearly half of ...
Recent debate about multiculturalism in Australia
... Australia's economy. Australia's treatment of minorities has changed considerably since the 1900s, where Australians perceived other races to be inferior and 'undesirable as immigrants'. The views that Australians have today are vastly different from those of early ...
The Creation of the Anzac Legend
... south-east was illusory, if only because of the pitiful state of the Balkan armies. Moreover, there was no certainty that the Turks would necessarily have capitulated had their capital come under threat from Allied naval forces. In pursuit of this chimera, 120,000 British and ...
Rabbit Proof Fence (Myths and Untruths)
... many different points of view as to the historical accuracy of Rabbit Proof Fence , and they will all be displayed as best as possible in this essay. This essay will focus firstly on the portrayal of costumes and Moore River. Secondly, it will focus on the representation of ...