Composers utilise both visceral and critical appeal in order to ensure that their discussion regarding the complexities of social issues remain relevant over time. In his 1992 ‘Redfern Speech’, Keating candidly portrayed Australia’s complex ‘contemporary identity’ as something that ‘cannot be separated from Aboriginal Australia’. Keating employs highly critical rhetoric in his ‘Redfern Speech’ in order to portray the extreme gap in social inequality between the Indigenous and non-indigenous people of Australia, citing this marginalisation as a self-inflicted blemish on our national identity .He achieves this through the anaphora of ‘more’ in “more dignity, more confidence, more happiness”, criticising the audience through its emphasis on the
