The Australian whites-only policy

Learning Outcome: Analyse the impact of language changes.

Area: the influence of government policy

The Australian whites-only policy: language changes over time influenced by changes in attitude toward immigrants (taboo language / politically correct)

Warmer: White Australia Policy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0TUZwj06nM – Australia in the sixties

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Compare and Contrast:

Immigration Restriction Act, 1901 (authentic texts)

Racial Discrimination Act, 1975 (authentic texts)

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Documentary “Immigration Nation” – youtube documentary

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Excerpts of “Fatal Shore” by Robert Hughes – the victim becomes the victimizer

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“Rabbit-Proof Fence” film

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Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) Australia’s language today

Special Broadcasting Services (www.sbs.com.au). Go to resources and then to articles.

Newspapers

The Sydney Morning Herald

The Melbourne Age

Further explorations possible

The treatment of native American – boarding schools

Treatment of native Indians by British military

How was the Australia’s mother country responded to the issue – Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech by Enoch Powell.