Historical Events: Key In Shaping Australian Identity

In the history of Australia, there are a variety of people in their respective areas have made outstanding achievements, made a contribution to the identity of Australia. Among these people, Anh Do is probably the most instructive and interesting person. As his book "happy refugees" implied, Anh experienced suffering in his early years. At the same time, he has maintained an optimistic attitude, this pain into an inspirational story, to share with you. At present, Anh has made achievements in various fields such as writers, films, television, artists, live performances and corporate speeches (Anhdo.com.au 2017). Anne 's story is sure to shape the identity of Australia. This report will analyze the achievements of Anhe and his

During World War I, the Australian home front was impacted by a long and varying list of occurrences during the period of time between the years of 1914 to 1918. The home front was influenced politically through the arguments over the conscription vote and as Australia became divided between the different war beliefs. It was also influenced by social change, as the use of censorship drastically altered the Australians’ views of war and women began to pick up odd jobs in order to assist the soldiers as very few of them were allowed to directly help as nurses in Gallipoli. There were also extreme economic alterations as the wages in Australia were pushed down and prices were pushed up, and the country discarded major trade partners who had become their enemy.

Italian migrants are another group that have influenced Australia’s identity and culture. Australia has also been heavily influenced by its many Italian migrants and Australians of Italian ancestries. Italians are the third largest cultural group in Australia and Italian is the third most frequently spoken language. Italians have influenced our food and our culture. Italians use much of garlic, olive oil, cheese, pasta, wine and coffee. Most Australians use these ingredients in their modern day foods. Italy’s well known and has contributed widely in Australia’s culture and identity mainly with their

Australia’s involvement in World War helped shape our nation and its history. It also shaped the way other countries see us in today’s society. This report will explain what World War 1 had to do with Australia and why we helped. It will also cover why so many men and women signed up for World War 1 and of course how it started.

World War I was a global war based in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) had great involvement in the war, serving as part of the British Empire. In Australia, or the ‘Australian home front’ the war had major impact, in many aspects of the Australian society. Conscription was a social impact of WWI, ‘The Enemy Within’ was a social impact of WWI and women were a social impact of WWI.

Australia’s national identity was built upon the hard masculine foundations using the harsh nature of the bush to exemplify these character traits. For many Australians, the ANZAC troops were the crystallization of the new identity. Following the crystallisation of the new identity, Australians started creating the ideal Australian, making the ideal Australian the traditional ideas of Australian national identity. The ideal Australian was known to be white, working class, sporty, male who were fiercely independent, and practical. It is important that we don’t go back to the traditional ideas of Australians national identity. (NEEDS TO BE FINISHED)

Australia was first established as a Federation in 1910 while World War 1 started in 1914, so Australia was still an undeveloped and new nation. Geographically speaking Australia is located far away from other European countries meaning it was remote from the continuing conflicts in European countries long before the world war. Even though Australia wasn’t directly tangled in the encounters in Europe before the World War, they found themselves playing an important role. Australia was a nation of around four million people, which meant that there was around 820,000 men between 19 and 38 that had the potential to fight. They first aided England in the 1860s for New Zealand, in the Sudan 1885 during the Boer War. Since they have aided England before it was likely that it wouldn’t be a problem helping again.

There were many underlying tensions that led to the outbreak of WWI in 1914. The main tensions were between the dominant European countries of the time. These countries were caught in a power struggle that divided Europe. France, Russia, Belgium and Greece formed an alliance against Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey. Immense political, territorial, and economic conflicts were occurring between these two groups. Both

World War One (WW1) one was one of the greatest wars between many countries. The War started in 1914 after an Assassination was committed on Ark duke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian Nationalist by the name of Gavrilo Princip. The assassination caused many countries to go into war, dividing themselves into 2 sides, the Triple Entente (Brittan, France, Russia and turkey ) and the triple alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy). Because of The Wars commencement there was a reason for Australia, a new Country to prove itself. The next few paragraphs will be proving the importance of the Anzac legend as a part of our Australian Identity. To prove this point each paragraph will elaborate on the topic in three different ways: The Anzac’s involvement

The Australian identity is progressively constructed through political and societal ideologies that have shaped views on morality, race, character, values and religion (Cousins, 2005). The genesis of an Australian identity dates back to the white settlement, where culture was dominantly influenced and controlled by an Anglo-Saxon heritage and harsh circumstances due to terrain and climate (Moran, 2011). Thus, physical rigorousness, mateship and the capability to endure hardship were foundational in the development of identity (Baum & Butler, 2014). Mono-racialism in mainstream media has become a paramount realisation amongst minority groups in society (Aquilia, 2001). ABC program, ‘The Drum’, demonstrated the lack of non Anglo-Saxon actors

The identity of Australians from foreigner or outsider perspective is based on perceptions, stereotypes, hearsay, and experiences different people have had while visiting or staying in Australia for work or school. Identity is closely linked to cultural and social aspects of society, where certain beliefs, values, and behaviours, are subscribed to by the said community or society. A sense of belonging to people, to individuals, families, communities, and nations is provided by identity. Australia is a multicultural society that is made up of about 260 languages and over 270 ancestries, even though urban Australia is fluid in its social composition. There have been controversies on immigration particularly about the widely diverse cultures and

World War One was a significant event in Australian society, from 1914-1918.The impact of World War One on the changing role of women, effects of weaponry and trench warfare and discrimination against German and Turk Australians.These different topics all changed Australian society in varied ways.

Since colonial times, sporting successes especially in cricket have assisted the emerging nation of Australia to establish its identity. The prevalence of cricket in Australia constitutes what Markovits and Hellerman (2001) coin a, “hegemonic sports culture”, and subsequently represents an influential part of Australian culture. However, the modernity discourse undermines the degree to which Australian identity is taking into account British Legacy.Today the Australian culture is comprised of a differing scope of encounters, nationalities and cultures, subsequently confounding the idea that Australian identity is based on British heritage. The verbose accentuation set on Australia’s

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A gold rush is a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered (Unkown, 2018). There were multiple gold finds before 1851 but none of them caused gold rushes, then in 1851 the first Australian gold rush started. As soon has people had heard of payable gold in Australia they started flocking from all over the country and even overseas which was a major economy boost for Australia and helped it to become the nation to which it is today. The Australian gold rush had a major impact on establishing the ‘Colonial Australian’ identity, through many changes and long term affects. Edward Hargraves started the first Australian gold rush when he discovered 5 specks of alluvial gold at a place he named Ophir in New