To what extent does your prescribed text representative of Australian values and aspirations. The texts are representative of Australian values and aspirations. ‘The Stolen Children’ by Carmel Bird writes Editor Voice, Victim voice and government voice to tell the audience about equality of every kind of human beings and allows people to feel that we should not make difference between with each other. In the song ‘A.B. original’ , its value of love towards the country Australia is highlighted. Values and aspirations of two texts are allow people to love this country and treat all Australians equal. The editorial voice of Carmel Bird gives a factual introduction to the past atrocities inflected. Her purpose is to represent Australian value and aspirations. She collects these stories of Aboriginal children and encourages the audience to connect emotionally with the pain that is felt by the Aboriginal people. She encourages readers in the sentence, “We cannot change the past… we may be able… to change the future for the better.” Her uses inclusive language to create a feeling that she is including the reader has the same wish as her, which is the society can change and treat people equally. “The evils of the past always come back to…dark shadow, …. those evils.” uses repetition, the word “evil” is the representative of the mistake done by past government. Aboriginal people experienced sad and miserable past and traumas are left. Bird’s strong editorial voices is conveyed to make people realise that no matter the colour of the skin, all human beings should be treated equally. The victim voice of Aboriginal children highlights their tragically and inhumanity treatment that they got from past government. They were unequally treated and taken away from their families by the past government. There is one story about Anne, who is different with other children. Her mother let her to be taken, her mother hopes that she will have a better life, get education and can learn to read and write. “Mum kept…. a good education…. proud i was going to have an education.” uses repetition of the word “education” to indicate that her mother believes that it is important to let her daughter get better education and puts faith in her daughter’s future after she’s being taken away from her. However, she was being led by the past government and her daughter Anne was never educated as government promised. In the sentence “Nobody in the family could.” , the word “nobody” highlights contrast the reality and her mother’s hope. ‘Nobody’ in the family teach her how to read or write and it explains the reason why her mother agreed to handover her precise daughter. “It made me feel sad, taking this photo…the only one she had….” She uses emotive language to prove that she felt lonely and unhappy because she realised that the past government lied and her mother left her for nothing. The Australian government, they took children away from their families to suffer. They made a big tragic to Aboriginal people. However, the government refused to serially apologise. John Howard said “I do not believe that current generations of Australians could be held accountable for of regarded as guilty for the acts of railer generations….” He uses irony which implies the fact that he did not think that this was mistake done by them and the past government. “hearsay…interesting, but valueless” uses descriptive language, the word ‘valueless hearsay’ is used to express that the government deny the true and try to cover the tragic mistake. Their irresponsible attitude makes Aboriginal people angry. The three different voices written by the editor, victims and the government shares different values and aspirations. In the song. “A.B.original”, this song sing about Australian day. In Australia, January 26 is nationally celebrated as Australia Day. However, it is known by the Aboriginal community as Survival Day. “January 26” is also a protest song and personal reflection on the meaning behind the day. “That's that land-taking, flag-waving attitude” uses colloquial language to express that their ‘land’ was ‘taken’. The words of song shows the listener that Aboriginal people dislike others to celebrate it as happy event of the born of Australia, It is disrespectful to them. “Make us celebrate anything but survival” The use of repetition to prove the listener today also is Survival Day, is a tragic day for Aboriginal people. Their value of understanding Australia National day as their survival day and not celebrating it as the start of a new country, but as the end of a tragic event is highlighted. Therefore, their special aspiration of achieve equality in Australia is implied. The texts are representative of Australian values and aspirations. In ‘The Stolen Children’ , children’s stories and the editor voice to show the audience their tragic life and the inhumanity government should seriously apologise to the Aboriginal people about the mistake. In the song ‘A.B. original’ is sing about Australia Day is also Survival Day, a sad day for Aboriginal people, their land was taken on January 26. Values and aspirations of two text conveys that history should be faced mistakes should be reflected. The idea of the equality among all skin colours is true and distinct Australian voice.
