UNIT OUTLINE
Semester Two, 2008
Unit Code:
AL375
Unit Title:
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY AND SOCIETY
Credit Points:
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Tuition hours per week:
Lectures: One two hour
lecture
Teaching mode:
Internal
Unit
Coordinator/Lecturer:
Dr Shane Burke and Dr Leigh Straw
Telephone:
9433 0576, 042 983 2541
Email:
sburke3@nd.edu.au
Office Location:
ND24/102 – School of Arts & Sciences, corner Croke and
Mouat Streets
Unit Coordinator Hours:
I will be in my office most times except Tuesday, Wednesday
or Thursday afternoons
Tutor Name/s:
Dr Leigh Straw and Dr Shane Burke
Telephone:
9433 0108 (Leigh) OR 9433 0576 (Shane)
Email:
lstraw@nd.edu.au OR sburke3@nd.edu.au
Office Location:
ND24/108 (Leigh) OR ND24/102 (Shane)
Tutor Consultation
Hours:
Leigh will advise students of her consultation times in Week
1’s tutorials.
Tutorials: One tutorial a week
(All queries should be addressed to Shane)
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ACADEMIC STAFF
UNIT COORDINATOR, LECTURER AND TUTOR
Dr Shane Burke is a lecturer with UNDA specialising in Western Australian history and
archaeology. He received his PhD from the University of Western Australia for his research into
the 1827 to 1860 archaeology of the British settlement of the Swan district Western Australia. He
is interested in the archaeology and history of Western Australia’s colonial period. He is presently
researching the 1830 dated Peel town near Kwinana.
Please do not hesitate contacting Shane if you have any queries regarding the unit. He can be
reached outside of class times on sburke3@nd.edu.au or by the telephone numbers on page 1.
LECTURER AND TUTOR
Dr Leigh Straw is a lecturer in Australian history and Aboriginal Studies. She also lectures in
Modern American, British and European history. Leigh completed a PhD in Australian history in
2004 and is currently researching Scottish migration to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania).
UNIT AIMS
This unit aims to provide US Study Abroad students with a substantial overview of Australian
history and an analysis of the evolution of contemporary Australian society. It covers major themes
and events in Australian history and offers a context for comparison with aspects of American
history and society. A principal theme of the unit is of the small and isolated early settler
population coming to terms with an unfamiliar and often hostile environment in one of the most
remote parts of the British Empire. The unit examines Australia’s long pre-history before European
arrival, and emphasises the changing pattern of Aboriginal/white relations – from armed friction on
the frontier during colonial times, to the beginnings of a search for reconciliation. The brutal nature
of the convict system, the desperate expansion of the gold period, and the sacrifices of Australians
during the ‘Great War’ are all examined in some detail. Australia’s changing relationships with its
powerful allies – Britain and the United States – are also examined. Through it all, Australia has
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had a bloody, determined and vibrant history as the ‘great southern land’ has, through the
struggles of its migrants and indigenous people, been transformed into a modern society.
SEMESTER OUTLINE
Week
Date
Lecture and Seminar Topic
Lecturer
Seminar
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1 Aug
Studying Australian History/Australian Identity
SB
Welcome and intro
2
8 Aug
Prehistory of Australia
SB
Outpost of Empire
3
15 Aug
The Convict System
LS
The Convict Stain
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22 Aug
The Colonial Frontier and Aboriginal History
LS
The Frontier
5
29 Aug
Gold, federation, and the rise of white
Australia
DG
Gold and Federation
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5 Sept
The Great War: Australia’s Empire War
LS
Anzacs and the Home
front
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12 Sept
Walking tour of Fremantle
LS/SB
No tutorial
8
19 Sept
FILM: Gallipoli (Dir. Peter Weir)
LS
No tutorial
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26 Sept
Australia’s World War Two: Australia, Japan
and the United States
SB
WWII and
Empire
Ashes
of
No lectures or tutorials
MID-SEMESTER BREAK 29 Sept to 3 Oct
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10 Oct
Post-war migration, communism and Australia
in the sixties
LS
Menzies’ Australia and
Australia in the Sixties
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17 Oct
The Fight for Recognition: Aboriginal Issues
1967-2007
LS
After the Referendum
12
24 Oct
From Keating to Howard
LS
Movies from the Keating
and Howard era
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31 Oct
Unit Overview and Exam Preparation
SB
Unit
Overview
Australia’s Future
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ASSESSMENT
For a pass or better in this unit you are required to complete four pieces of assessment.
Completion of all four elements is mandatory.
All written work must be submitted in accordance with the history formatting (see Footnoting) as
laid out in the College of Arts and Sciences Referencing and Style Guide, 2008, available on the
Arts
and
Sciences
homepage
at
http://www.nd.edu.Australia/fremantle/schools/arts/resources.shtml
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Group Assignment – Heritage Walking Tour
Position Paper
Course research and class engagement
Exam
40%
20%
10%
30%
Week 10 Thursday 9 Oct
Week 12 Thursday 23 Oct
Continuous
Exam period TBA
Written assignments must be submitted on time and in accordance with the unit convenor’s
requirements. Cover pages can be downloaded from the university’s web page and should
accompany all pieces of written work. Please note to use Australian English spelling for all
written work. Simply change one’s computer language to English (AUS).
Assignments must be lodged with the College of Arts and Sciences office in ND19 (opposite Blink
Coffee on High Street) no later than 4pm on the due date. Assignments received after this time
will be marked as having been received on the following day.
1 Group Assignment: A heritage walking tour of Fremantle
Students need to form groups of five people. The assignment is to create a written, self-guided
walking tour of Fremantle with an emphasis on its historical sites of significance.
Length:
3500 words.
Due Date:
Week 10; Thursday 9 Oct by 4 pm, School of Arts and Sciences ND19
(opposite Blink Café in High Street)
Value:
40%
Feel free to be as creative as possible. To add colour and interest to your project, groups might
wish to include maps, photographs, historical documents or cartoons, reprints of newspaper
headlines and possibly even an audio or electronic/digital accompaniment. The possibilities for a
rich and creative project are endless.
Each project should include the following:
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A short overview of the history, geography and significance of Fremantle. This is one of
the most important components of the assignment. (I suggest up to one-third of the length
of the word limit);
A suggested route for the historical walk, though you may wish also to include sites of
interest freely available on such public transport routes as the CAT bus;
Mention of sites of significance on your suggested routes (of an unlimited number); and
Detailed information regarding at least 12 of the sites on your suggested route.
Do not forget to:
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Use a range of detailed, scholarly sources to provide the background information to your
research on Fremantle and its local history;
Use scholarly secondary and primary sources to research the history of your chosen sites;
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Reference your work with footnotes where appropriate (see the College of Arts and
Sciences Referencing and Style Guide);
Provide a bibliography of all the sources you have used (again, see the style guide on how
to set this out).
Each assignment should use a good range of primary and secondary sources. Be careful to use
sources that are reliable, authentic and well researched. Avoid the use of ‘popular’ literature and
shallow websites.
Note that the Fremantle Library has a fantastic local history collection, and its
librarian is well trained to assist you in this assignment. The J.S. Battye Library
of WA History (Alexander Library Building, Third Floor Perth Cultural Centre) is
another place worth using for sources.
St Teresa’s library has a rich collection of electronic Databases dealing with
Australian history. ‘Australian Public Affairs - Full Text’, ‘Science Direct – Health
Sciences Collection’ and ‘Academic Search Primer’ are three of the best, but try
others via the homepage’s Subject List on the Database’s right hand side.
You might wish to select some of the following sites for your research, but be brave and original.
Just remember to research your sites, your local history, and your proposed route thoroughly.
Do not to forget to use sites of nineteenth and twentieth century significance:
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Fremantle Prison
Round House
Port
CY O’Connor statue, Fremantle Port
Fremantle
Passenger
Terminal
(Victoria Quay)
Rouse Head
Fremantle Bridge (Stirling Hwy)
Old colonial jetty (on Bathers Beach)
Bathers Beach
Fishing Boat harbour
Esplanade Hotel
Bannister Street
Explorer’s Monument, Esplanade park
Paddy Troy benches
Moore buildings
Lionel Samson building and business,
Cliff Street
Former Drill Hall and naval officer’s
buildings (now ND24)
Water police townhouses, Marine Tce
Prison warder’s cottages, Henderson
Street
Fremantle court house – take your
pick
Fremantle markets, South Terrace
His Majesty’s Hotel
Town Hall
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Maritime Museum, new building
St John’s Church
St Patrick’s Basilica
Fremantle Train Station
Old Post Office
South Terrace coffee strip
Old Papa’s café (can you find where it
used to be?)
Il Ciao restaurant (local eating
landmark)
Old Mill, Essex Street (now swanky
apartments)
Whaling tunnel, beneath the Round
House
German consulate building, Mouat
Street
Wreck of the Batavia
Commissariat building (now the
Maritime Museum shipwrecks gallery)
Strelitz buildings, Mouat Street
Western Australian Bank building, 22
High Street
Bateman buildings, Croke Street (now
ND law library)
Norfolk Hotel, corner Norfolk St and
South Terrace
Tom Edwards memorial fountain, St
John’s Square
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Victoria Hotel, 179 High Street
South Beach
Fremantle Cemetery
Fremantle Arts Centre
Fremantle Oval
2 Position Paper
Students are required to write a well-researched and thoughtfully constructed position
paper on one of the questions offered in the last pages of this outline.
Length:
2000 words.
Due Date:
Week 12; Thursday 23 Oct by 4pm School of Arts and Sciences ND19
(opposite Blink Coffee in High Street)
Value:
20%
Students are required to write a well-researched and thoughtfully constructed position paper on
ONE of the following questions:
1. Humans have lived in Australia for thousands of years. What mechanisms did they use to
survive?
2. Was deterioration in relations between Aborigines and Europeans inevitable in the first
decades of colonisation?
3. What is meant by Australia’s pioneer heritage? Is it still relevant today?
4. Critically assess the extent to which the Anzac Legend has shaped Australian national
identity.
5. Critically assess the impacts of immigration on post-war Australia?
6. To what degree has Australia fought the wars of other nations?
7. Critically analyse TWO issues that have most affected Australia since the 1950s?
Each position paper should be thoroughly researched with real use of at least the following:
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2 – 3 primary sources
5 books
3 – 5 journal articles
You must use academic sources for your research. The bibliography should not consist mainly of
online sources (with the exception of library journal databases).
You are encouraged to use sources from the set text, Making Australian History, but your
research must also go beyond this text.
Each position paper should be formatted according to the requirements of the College’s
referencing and style guide.
Libraries which have material of use in constructing this assignment include:
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Notre Dame University;
Murdoch University (ND students have reciprocal borrowing rights at Murdoch);
University of Western Australia; and
Battye Library and State Reference Library, Alexander Library Building, Perth.
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3 Course research and class engagement
Each week you are assessed based on your ongoing research and preparation for each
lecture and seminar, your sophisticated engagement in class discussion and enthusiastic
participation in all other class activities. Students cannot ‘just turn up to class’ and pass this
assessment of the course. Rather, students must clearly demonstrate thorough research,
regular participation and effective involvement in all discussions.
Value:
10%
4 End of semester exam
The AL375 exam will consist of a list of essay topics from which you will choose two topics
to write an essay in response to each. The essay topics will be based on the general
themes of the unit as raised in lectures and seminars.
Length:
Date:
Value:
2 hours
to be advised
30%
LATE SUBMISSIONS
Assignments must be lodged with the College of Arts and Sciences office in ND19 no later than
4pm on the due date. Assignments received after this time will be marked as having been
received on the following day.
Your assignment will be subject to a 10% per day penalty if it is submitted late.
If there are any problems in submitting your assignment on time, please see me before the due
date. If illness is a factor, a medical certificate must be produced and attached to your application
for extension.
NOTE: Computer or technical problems are not grounds for extension or special consideration.
ALL students MUST back up their work on a USB drive, CD-Rom or floppy drive.
If you are having serious problems in meeting the requirements of the unit, please speak with Dr
Burke.
PLEASE NOTE: I encourage you to travel and see Australia’s diverse environment during your
time at Notre Dame, but travel for the purposes of tourism is NOT a valid excuse for late
submission of work. Prepare in advance.
FIELD TRIP
A field trip is organised as part of this unit. The field trip is to an outlying Aboriginal community
near Broome in the Kimberley region for five days - to study the life and history of the indigenous
people of Australia and to experience the ‘outback’.
ATTENDANCE
One two-hour lecture occurs each Friday from 8:30 to 10:30am in room ND1/103.
Students are expected to attend all lectures. While the lecture period is two hours long there will
be a break between the first and second half. Each lecture period will address a specific topic
covered in the unit outline.
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All students will also be allocated to a tutorial group. The tutorials will be held on Friday mornings
at either 11.30am or 12.30pm.
Students must attend all seminars and prepare adequately in advance by reading all of the
required texts for that week.
In accordance with the School of Arts & Sciences Regulations Chapter IV:
4.1.1 A student who is absent from a unit without the approval of the Course Coordinator or Unit
Coordinator from its scheduled lectures, tutorials, workshops or any other teaching period
outlined in the unit outline may receive a Fail (F) grade for the unit.
4.1.2 Arrival at any teaching period more than 10 minutes after the commencement of the class
may be deemed to constitute absence.
4.1.3 Full time attendance at all scheduled practicum/internships/fieldtrips, including necessary
briefing sessions, is compulsory.
READING FOR SEMINARS
All students are expected to do the essential reading for each week's seminar. Active participation
in, and contribution to, seminar presentations and class debates counts towards your final grade.
Textbook
The required text for this unit is:
Deborah Gare and David Ritter (eds) Making Australian History: Perspectives On The Past
Since 1788, Thomson, South Melbourne, 2008.
This text provides students with a multi-authored collection of primary and
secondary sources through articles, documents and short essays. It is an excellent
text for studying Australian history and co-edited by our own Associate Dean,
Deborah Gare, who will also give guest lectures.
Other recommended texts:
David Day, Claiming a Continent: A new history of Australia, 3rd edition, Harper Collins,
Sydney, 2001.
Day’s history is a recent (and many students think interesting and lively)
interpretation of Australia’s past. It is a recommended text but is not required.
Stuart Macintyre, A Concise History of Australia, 2nd edition, CUP, Melbourne, 2004.
Manning Clark, A Short History of Australia, Penguin, Melbourne, various editions.
Clark’s is a dated but classic history of Australia. The author was a seminal
historian of Australia from the 1950s until his death in the early 1990s, and much of
which has since been written is in many ways a response to Clark.
Essential Reading
The essential reading for each week is indicated within each seminar topic. Students are expected
to read at least the essential reading. If you encounter problems getting hold of the essential
reading, it is important that you read something from the supplementary reading list instead.
Further Reading
Essential readings do not cover all readings in each section of the Making Australian History text.
You are most welcome to read through all the readings in each set section if you desire.
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You will see that further reading titles are suggested within each thematic section of your set text,
Making Australian History. Please feel free to consult these readings if you wish to extend your
research on each topic further than the essential readings.
Further reading not available within the set text can be located in our own library, and many more
in such libraries as the University of Western Australia (Nedlands), Murdoch University (Murdoch)
and the State Reference Library (Alexander Library Building, Perth). All of these libraries are
easily accessible by public transport from Fremantle.
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY AND THE INTERNET
Unless you are accessing primary sources, the internet is NOT generally suitable as a reference
or source for your assignment research. If in doubt, see your academic staff.
While the internet can provide an interesting source of general background information, it is no
substitute for ‘hard sources’ and solid research. For your interest, the National Library of
Australia’s site, Australian History on the Internet, has some interesting links and primary sources.
See: www.nla.gov.au/oz/histsite.html
Or visit Australian history links - www.dropbears.com/l/links/history.htm.
Many of the founding primary source documents of Australia are also available on the web. See
www.foundingdocs.gov.au.
Please consult the College of Arts & Sciences style and referencing guide for more
information on appropriate referencing.
STUDENT EMAIL ACCOUNT
All students at Notre Dame have an automatically generated webmail account. This is the address
that all University staff will use to communicate with students by email. Important information
relating to this unit (eg exam information, assignment extensions) will be conveyed to students via
their student email account.
Students are expected to check their webmail account at least ONCE A WEEK.
Staff will not accept responsibility for students failing to check their student email account for
important unit information.
PLAGIARISM
The University seriously regards any acts of dishonesty in assessment such as plagiarism,
collusion, re-submission of previously marked work in different units, copying and theft of other
students’ work. You may not copy the work of another person, or have any other person write your
work, assist you in your research and writing or do your research and writing for you.
If you present as your own work any quotes or ideas which come from someone else, without
acknowledging the source, you have plagiarised.
All of the above behaviour amounts to academic dishonesty and will be viewed as serious
misconduct by this University, resulting in penalties.
You are permitted to discuss ideas with other students but when it comes to writing the answers
the work must be all your own, unless it is clearly a group assignment, acknowledged as such by
the unit coordinator.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
This Unit Outline provides students enrolled in the unit with important information regarding the
unit’s outcomes, lecture and tutorial times, program outline, assessment structure, resources and
texts.
Students are expected to have read and understood this Unit Outline in conjunction with the
University’s General Regulations and relevant School Regulations as well as any other policy,
guideline or procedure referred to in this document. University regulations can be accessed
from: http://www.nd.edu.au/university/structure/academic/provost/regulations.shtml.
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SEMINAR TOPICS
Week 1
Introductory Tutorial
No readings: introductory seminar.
Week 2
‘Outpost of Empire’
Tutorial Discussion:
• What were the main motives behind British interest in Australia? Were the British merely
establishing a penal colony or were there other benefits for the Empire?
Essential reading:
Making Australian History: SECTION 2
Primary Sources
John Howard, The State of Prisons in England and Wales, 1777
Lord Sydney, Plan to establish a penal colony in New South
Wales, 1786
Secondary Sources
The Tyranny of Distance – Geoffrey Blainey
1783-1870: An expanding empire – P. J Marshall
Further reading:
Consult the further reading list in Gare and Ritter (eds), Making Australian History, p. 62.
Week 3
‘The Convict Stain’
Primary sources used in SECTION 4 of your set text are available online. The tutorial discussion
this week will be based on your research of the sources online.
1. Get on a computer, connect to the internet and go to the website “Convict stories”
(http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/stories.html).
2. Browse through the list of individual convicts transported on particular ships. Pick out a few
random convicts, click on a name, and have a look at how and why they ended up in Australia,
and what happened to them after transportation. Remember that most of these notes were
written by descendants of the convicts. To what extent has this resulted in a particular telling
of the convict story? Print out, and/or make notes to bring to class about one of these convicts.
(why was s/he transported? What happened to him/her in Australia?).
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3. Now go to the details on the last convict ship to Australia, The Hougoumont, which arrived in
Fremantle in 1868 (Visit http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/con-wa42.html)
(Alternatively, go to the search function of the previous page and type in “Hougoumont”).
4. Read the background details about the ship and its prisoners. Now scroll down to the specific
details about each prisoner. Scroll left to right to read the individual details for each convict.
You can also click on “physical description” to get more background, as recorded by the prison
authorities, on the person’s marital status, occupation, height, distinguishing characteristics,
etc.
5. Examine the personal data for the prisoners. Who are the “Fenians” identified in the far right
column of the log? How many were there on the Hougoumont? What was their crime? (you
will obviously have to research beyond this site to find the answers).
6. Now look at an individual convict from the Hougoumont. What was his crime? His sentence?
His age? Where was he from? What was his occupation? Was he married or single? Anything
interesting about his other personal details (view by clicking on “physical description”)?
7. Now try to get a general sense the overall spread of convicts on the Hougoumont. What is the
average age for instance? What was the average length of sentence? What was the average
height? Where were they from? How many were skilled tradesmen and how many were
“labourers”? Do any appear to be from wealthy or middle-class backgrounds (check
occupations)? What was the most common criminal offence of those aboard the
Hougoumont? What was the most unusual crime someone was sentenced for? What was the
age of the youngest convict? And the oldest? Were most of the convicts sentenced for
‘serious’ or ‘petty’ crimes? What, if anything, does all this data tell us? Feel free to work in
groups to get an overall sense of the answers to these questions.
Essential secondary source reading:
Counting the Convicts – The unlikely love affair between convicts and historians – Deborah Oxley
Further reading:
Consult the further reading list in Gare and Ritter (eds), Making Australian History, p. 131.
Week 4
Debating the Australian Frontier
Tutorial Debate:
Australia was settled peacefully and what took place on the Australian frontier between Aborigines
and Europeans did not constitute a war.
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Essential reading:
Making Australian History: SECTION 6
Primary Source
Henry Reynolds and Keith Windschuttle, ‘Debate rages over “peaceful” white settlement’, ABC
Lateline broadcast, 2001.
Secondary Sources
Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience – Bain Attwood and S. G. Foster
Genocide in Australia? – Dirk Moses
Further reading:
Consult the further reading list in Gare and Ritter (eds), Making Australian History, p. 189.
Week 5
Gold and Federation
Tutorial Discussion:
• Why did the Chinese become such a focus for
discontent on the Goldfields?
• What are the main components of Ward’s
‘Australian legend’?
• In what ways are gold and federation linked?
Essential reading:
Making Australian History: SECTIONS 7 and 8
Primary Sources
‘The attack on the Eureka Stockade’, Geelong Advertiser, 1854
‘The Lambing Flat Riots’, Sydney Morning Herald, 1861
Henry Parkes, Tenterfield Speech, 1889
Secondary Sources
The Australian Legend – Russel Ward
Inventing Australia – Richard White
To Constitute a Nation – Helen Irving
Further reading:
Consult the further reading list in Gare and Ritter (eds), Making Australian History, pp. 221 and
255.
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Week 6
Film: Gallipoli (Dir. Peter Weir)
In the lecture period for this week we will be watching the film Gallipoli by Peter Weir. No seminars
are scheduled for this week as one group of students will be in the Kimberley. ALL students not on
the trip at this stage are required to come to the normal lecture times to watch this film.
Week 7
Walking Tour Around Fremantle
Your hosts for this tour will be Leigh Straw and Shane Burke.
ALL students are required to attend this Walking Tour as it is essential in preparing for the group
project assessment. The tour will take place after the Kimberley briefing (this briefing is scheduled
in the lecture period for Friday of week 5).
Week 8
Anzacs and Home front Experiences of World War One
Tutorial Discussion:
• What is the relationship between the Anzacs and Australian national
identity?
• How did World War One divide and unite ordinary Australians?
• How important is anti-British sentiment to the Anzac legend? What
are the implications of this?
Tutorial Debate!
•The Anzac legend is a myth.
Essential reading:
Making Australian History: SECTIONS 10 and 11
Primary Sources
C. E. W. Bean, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, 1929.
W. M. Hughes, The Case for ‘Yes’, 1916
W. R. Winspear, ‘The Blood Vote’, 1916
Secondary Sources
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The Gallipoli Campaign: History and memory, myth and legend – Peter Stanley
Great War, Total War – Bart Zino
Further reading:
Consult the further reading list in Gare and Ritter (eds), Making Australian History, pp. 317 and
351.
Week 9
World War Two, Australian Women and the Ashes of Empire
Tutorial Discussion:
• In what ways did WWII impact on Australian women?
• How do Menzies and Curtin compare as wartime leaders, according to David Day?
• How did World War Two change Australia’s foreign policy?
Essential reading:
Making Australian History: SECTIONS 13 and 14
Primary Sources
Robert Menzies, announcing that Australia is at war, 1939
John Curtin, ‘The Task Ahead’, 1941
Secondary Sources
Female Desires: The meaning of World War II – Marillyn Lake
Menzies and Curtin as War Leaders – David Day
Turning to America: The United States, Australia and the end of Empire, 1941-1966 – Richard
Trembath
Further reading:
Consult the further reading list in Gare and Ritter (eds), Making Australian History, pp. 413 and
443.
FIELD TRIP: The Kimberley Outback
Three separate groups will participate in a field trip to the Kimberley, beginning Monday 22 Sept
(week 9).
Each group will be informed of their dates of travel but for your information the three trip dates are
included below:
Group 1: Monday 22 Sept returning Friday 26 Sept (week 9);
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Group 2: Saturday 27 Sept returning Thursday 2 Oct (students will depart during the midsemester break so will not miss lectures and tutorials in AL375);
Group 3: To be arranged, but will miss part of Week 10.
Our hosts. The Morgan Family – Wundargoodie
Week 10
Menzies’ Australia and Australia in the Sixties
Tutorial Discussion:
• What was the Petrov Affair? What does it tell us about Australia in the fifties?
• What major forms of social dissent took place in Australian in the sixties?
Essential reading:
Making Australian History: SECTIONS 15 and 16
Primary Sources
Walter Murdoch, ‘I am going to vote “No”’, 1951
Robin Boyd, Australia’s Home, 1952
Remembering Dissent: oral history of the Melbourne Moratorium march (1970), 1992
Secondary Sources
Imagining the Fifties – John Murphy
The Petrov Affair – Robert Manne
Hippie, Hippie Shake – Richard Neville
Further reading:
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Consult the further reading list in Gare and Ritter (eds), Making Australian History, pp. 476 and
509.
Week 11
After the Referendum
Tutorial Discussion:
• Why do you think Prime Minister Paul Keating’s speech in Redfern is so significant?
• What is the relationship between land rights and justice for Indigenous Australians?
• What are the main legacies of the 1967 Referendum?
• What is meant by Stolen Generations? How has this impacted on Aboriginal Australians?
Essential reading:
Making Australian History: SECTION 17
Primary Sources
Paul Keating, ‘The Redfern Speech’, 1992
Millicent’s Story’, Bringing them Home, 1997
Secondary Sources
Aboriginal Histories, Australian Histories, and the Law – Rosemary Hunter
Broken Circles – Anna Haebich
The 1967 Referendum and its Legacy – Sue Taffe
Further reading:
Consult the further reading list in Gare and Ritter (eds), Making Australian History, p. 541.
Week 12
From Keating to Howard
No readings have been set for this tutorial. Students will watch Australian movies from the Keating
and Howard eras that reflect the attitudes of the two Prime Ministers
Week 13
Unit Overview and Australia’s Future
No readings have been set for this tutorial, as it will take the form of a group discussion of the unit
in general.
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In preparation for the tutorial discussion students should consider where Australia is heading and
what the future holds for this nation.
You may like to consider some of the topics from the unit as a whole in considering Australia’s
future. Issues you may like to consider:
Aboriginal rights
Immigration
National Identity
Foreign Policy
Class in Australia
Education
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