Lauren+Pilling

= __ABORIGINALS __ //Lauren Pilling 10x//=

**Visual Text**


I chose this picture to represent my area, because it shows a happy aborigine, before the "white man" came and altered their lifestyle. Since the "white man" has come and altered their lifestyle, aboriginal people have been struggling in Australia. Not only do they have to deal with "white men" being racist to them, they had to change their whole lives, To suit the new lifestyles of the "white man" leaving the aboriginals unhappy and at war with the "white man".

=Poem=

No more boomerang. Words: Walker (Noonuccal) Tune: Lobl

No more  boomerang no more spear ,  Now all civilized color bar and beer ,

 No more corroboree gay dance and din,  Now we got movies and pay to go in.

No more  sharing what the hunter brings ,  Now we work for money and pay it back for things ,

 Now we track bosses to catch a few bob , Now we go walkabout on bus to the job.

One time naked who never knew shame,  Now we put clothes on to hide whatsaname.

 No more gunyah now bungalow , Paid by hire purchase in twenty years or so.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in;">Lay down the stone axe take up the steel, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in;">Work like a nigger for a white man's meal, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in;"> No more firestick that made whites scoff, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in;">Now all electric and no better off.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in;">Bunyip he finish got now instead , <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in;">White-fella bunyip call him red.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in;">Abstract pictures now, what they comin' at <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in;">Cripes in our caves we did better than that.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in;">Black hunted wallaby, white hunt dollar. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in;">White-fella witch-doctor wear dog c ollar. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-origin: initial; color: black;">No more message lubras and lads , <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in;">Got television now, mostly ads.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in;">Lay down the woomera, lay down the waddy , <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">No we <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"> got atom bomb. End everybody

This poem was written by a native Aboriginal woman. Oodgeroo Noonuccal was a lifetime communist / feminist activist who focused mainly on the fight for aboriginal rights in Australia. This cultural perspective and point of view is important to consider when reading the poem to better gain a further understanding of the text. “No More Boomerang” relates to “Aboriginal Australia” as it explores the historical portrayal and representation of Aboriginal Australian culture. It reflected the culture of settlement times. In the poem, No more boomerang, there is a variety of literary techniques that were used to portray a view of aboriginals in Australia. For example, the repetition of “No more” and “Now we” portrays how modern day Australia has made a negative impact on aboriginals. There is also a clear rhyming scheme that indicts flow to the poem. Noonnucca has also used a variety of lines and verses that contain imagery; this is an effective technique to have been used in this particular poem.


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Lauren,

A fair effort but please complete the task by the due date
 * You have not completed this: where is your analysis of your short story? Please post this up asap
 * A good choice of visual text - please post up your completed PPT soon
 * You have begun a good analysis on the poem but please try to add detail and depth to your writing\
 * You could provide comparison between texts

Lauren you did a good analysis but I think that if you added more detail would be great! The writing is of good quality and more would be awesome.