Outback

Brack’s choice to paint the suburbs provides an interesting historical discourse with the way Australian identity has been depicted through art. This is because the suburbs exist as the antithesis to depictions of the Australian landscape as ‘the outback’. Brack reveals a disappointed observation that instead of ‘nationalism, the cultural aspiration becomes ‘mere acquisitiveness’ and thus loses substance and…

I must say I am honored and thankful to have some of the most caring and sincerest of friends. I have friends of different races and sexuality. One of my friends has the biggest, purest heart of anyone I know and she is homosexual. For those of you that do not know what I am talking about, homosexual is a sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. This is about her; my friend and anyone who may relate to her, as told through my eyes. Amber was born in 1980,…

In the beginning, when Drover drives Lady Ashley home, he states that ‘No man hires me, no man fires me’, which represents his free lifestyle in the outback. The harmonica playing in the background and the dusty windscreen gives an extra feeling of the outback and Drovers lifestyle. In the bar scene Drover get’s in a fight because of his relationships with the Indigenous, this represents how he stands up for he believes in and his values were rather different…

to most Catholics as she dedicated her life to God’s work. Here is a list of Mary’s achievements: Mary opened the first Saint Joseph’s School, formed the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph, she travelled with the sisters to cities and small outback settlements in Australia, New Zealand and now Brazil, Uganda and Thailand. Mary opened orphanages for the care of the homeless and refuges for ex prostitutes and prisoners who wished for a fresh start. She was also asked by Bishop Shiel to come…

the poem was “Safe in their burrow below the falls, they live in a world of wonder,” which can conclude that the “old man platypus” is happy for being in a safe burrow. In this poem Banjo mentions many aspects of the bushlands and rivers in the outback, and is trying to convey the beauty of Australia in this poem. Banjo is trying to capture an image of the native Australian wildlife and when mentioning the platypus “plays and dives in the river bends in a style which is most elusive” saying…

moments within the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples rights. The Freedom Rides were led by university student Charles Perkins, who aimed to raise awareness and generate publicity on the intense racial discrimination within outback towns in New South Wales. These ‘freedom rides’ amassed enough attention to open a constitutional vote that abolished racial segregation laws, paving the way for future movements concerning Aboriginal rights. The Freedom Riders method of…

eternity. The dragon/ serpent is believed to be the source of all Uranium in Australia: The Uranium itself being the glowing scales/ skin or the dragon. Uranium is a radioactive metal which is found in vast quantities in Australia, particulary in the outback where many Aboriginal tribes live/lived. Maralinga is known is have been a major place in Australia's nuclear history. Referred to as a…

side until he catches it. Those are some of the similarities in these ads. Every ad is different in its own way. This is how the brands keep alive. For example, In the Solo ad there is a muscly man chasing a barrel full of Solo for ages through the outback. In Mount Franklins ad there is a sexy fit girl walking through a forest and the beach while drinking Mount Franklin. Solo is more of an action ad which grabs the audience’s attention straight away whereas Mount Franklins ad makes you feel…

The red kangaroo uses sexual reproduction instead of asexual reproduction because it can’t use asexual reproduction. “The red kangaroo is wildly found in the Australian Outback” (University of Utah, Reproductive Strategies). It is also found in zoos around the world. “The red kangaroo is the largest living marsupial in the world” (University of Utah, Reproductive Strategies) . It is brown and looks like an oversized rabbit…

Today I will be talking about the biome I have chosen for my report. I chose the driest landform you would ever hear about, the Desert. There are so many interesting facts about the Desert that I bet you haven’t even heard of. Did you know that Death Valley has a large mass of water underneath it that includes one of the most rarest fish ever. That fish is called the Blue Pufferfish. Some of the desert’s i'm going to be babbling about is the Great Victoria Desert. This desert is located in…