... and putting up plastic Christmas trees. By making the beach holiday the main setting of the play Michael Gow can express aspects of Australian culture through his characters and their actions. Australian colloquial speech is used throughout the play. The characters use expressions such as "dunny", "slogged me guts out", "I could' ... them", "pot luck", "the nuddy" and "got the huff". Prominent Australians such as Chips Rafferty and Dame Pattie Menzies are referred to. Australian products such as Bex, Rinso and Pine-O-Clean are also mentioned. These cultural references make the setting of...

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• Grade Level: High School

... be the intolerance of most Australians who feared that their own identity was being changed. "It's all about attitude" The attitude to the new Australian migrants would have rude, crude and snobbish. " in the main life was more acceptable than the one left behind in the devastated homeland. And ... called "Assimilation". With the introduction of this new policy any person in Europe can enter Australia as long as they gave up their culture and learned to live the Australian way of life. "These people didn't speak English but they were "white", so they were acceptable to the government". "N...

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• Grade Level: High School

... she is writing about issues which need to be discussed, about stories that need to be told. Wright feels strongly about her ancestry as an Australian and she expresses this through her poetry by telling the stories of Australia, it's land and it's people. "The Graves at Mill Point ... "South of My Days." When Judith Wright says in South of My Days, "my bloods country", she really means it. Wright treasures her Australian ancestry while accepting her European heritage as well. South of My Days explores the history of man on the land in Australia and gives Wright ... Wright also reaches o...

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• Grade Level: High School

... in Australia. The overseas companies chose to make there cars here because they could produce more cars for less money. This was welcomed by the Australian government as it provided a valuable boost to employment and also to the economy. Cars were improved dramatically through out the 1920's. Cranks which ... heal shoes became an essential part of any fashionable woman's wardrobe. Women also started smoking and drinking which was not heard of before this decade. The Australian economy grew greatly through out the 1920's but there were also many downfalls. The "soldier settlement scheme" ...

• Word Count: 1606
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School