By studying the texts given in class there is no such thing as a typical Australian. There are many differences between the character’s we see in texts such as ‘The one day of the year’, ‘The drovers wife’, and ‘Nice coloured girls. In ‘The one day of the year we see a suburban Australian family who are trying to deal with the differences amongst them. In ‘The drovers wife’ we also see and Australian family who deal with living in the outback.

‘The one day of the year’ written by Alan Seymour focuses on an Aus

The texts studied this term show that there are many different people that make Australia so diverse. As there are so many different characters shown in these texts such as Alf and Hughie in ‘the one day of the year’ there is no such thing as a typical Australian.

tralian family who are dealing with the differences between one another. This text clearly demonstrates the different characters we see in Australian society. Alf is the main character of the play. He is a middle aged man who believes passionately in tradition. As he spent some of his life serving in WW2 it is still a big part of his life and looks forward to the one day of the year that he can celebrate the war. His son Hughie has a different view of celebrating the war and believes

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Alan Seymour, , Year’ Jan, Lawson Australian, Day Year’, Alf Hughie, ‘the day, ‘the day year’, day year’, typical australian, australian family, ‘the drovers wife’, drovers wife’, ‘the drovers, texts studied, texts studied term, studied term,