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Australia: Nature & Peoples
Australia - Nature's Gifts
FOCUS
With a focus on how Australia's great nature and its first nation people we explore a country where English is the official language outside the UK/US. Our main source
is the new 'Boomerang' by Jesper Kaalund.
Regarding text analysis, our main focus is on 'setting' and 'place'.
We start with watching a video about the country's history, which, however, largely ignores the first nation people, who have lived in Australia for many thousands of years. We find out that this ignorace is slowly being recitified, e.g. by adapting the national anthem.
We explore the somewhat difficult current relationship between the UK and Australia by reading about the Jamie Oliver children's book 'scandal'.
Public access to one of Australia's main tourist destinations, the Ayers Rock in the middle of the country, has been ceased a few years ago and the spot has been renamed to 'Uluru', its indigenious name. We learn about the background for this decision, the native people's view of the natural world and the, somewhat tense relationship to some white Australians. Studying an excerpt from Bruce Pascoe's controversial book 'Dark Emu' and the short story 'Honey' will help us to get a better understanding of this tension.
We wrap up by watching the film 'Tracks', which is based on Robyn Davidson's extraordinary journey through the outback in the 1970s.
TERMINOLOGY
dreamtime, native people, indigenous, first nations, rainbow serpent, stolen generation, sensitivity readers, Ayers Rock & Uluru, outback, barren, inhospitable, barren, cultural certainties, skewed views, white settlers, The Voice referendum, preconception, colonialisation, ...
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