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ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA

This is our visual text, an aboriginal painting. This painting captures the eye with a variety of bright colors. This painting shows the desert and harsh life of what aboriginals live. This is the view of aboriginal Australia for there is lots of land and and not many buildings. There are lots of wild life. The landmark being is Uluru a giant rock that is being foregrounded. It portrays the image of a rocky deserted land that what many many people think Australia is.



This exquisite visual text symbolizes the hard long journey of an Indigenous Aboriginal. This picture illustrates the journey of an aboriginal being moved from one home to another because of the British. It conveys that the British pushed the Aboriginals out of their home time after time as they were scared of the British. There are three very large campgrounds that are being foregrounded and many smaller campgrounds that are in the background this could be the dying campsites or tribes. This picture could also represent a large group of Aboriginal tribes, as you can see there is a big river that is accessible to all the tribes and makes traveling easier. This goes with our theme of Aboriginal Australia as it is an Aboriginal painting and our interpretation of the painting goes with what the poem is saying, that Aboriginals were not treated the same way as the British nor were they brought up the same way. In some ways this text does relate to the visual image of the Australian outback as it for is also a dot painting and it is oof the land but this visual image is telling more of a story where as the first one is harder to see a story if there is one as it is a picture rather than symbols there it is not up to how you interpret the translations and put the to the picture but purely what is right there in front of you. This picture relates to the topic of Aboriginal Australia and the idea that White Australia came in and pushed the Aboriginals out.

‘Who Took the Children Away?’ Richard Frankland (SS)

‘No More Boomerang’ Oodgeroo (P) No more boomerang no more spear, Now all civilised colour 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. Lay down the stone axe take up the steel, Work like a nigger for a white man's meal, No more firestick that made whites scoff, Now all electric and no better off. Bunyip he finish got now instead, White-fella bunyip call him red. Abstract pictures now, what they comin' at Cripes in our caves we did better than that. Black hunted wallaby, white hunt dollar. White-fella witch-doctor wear dog collar. No more message lubras and lads, Got television now, mostly ads, Lay down the woomera, lay down th waddy, No we got atom bomb. End everybody

The poem of 'No More Boomerang' by Oodgeroo is about what aborginals once had but now isn't due to the changes in society and the world. Their lands have been turned into city. Any signs of their culture is slowly being eradicated and converted to the typical aussie western culture. This poem implies on how Aboriginals are being discriminated and their status in the world today.

Oodgeroo uses a variety of literary techniques to engage the readers and get her point across. Oodgeroo often uses repetition, “Now we…” “No more…” is a form of repetition putting emphasis on her point that all has been lost and new things are being forced into their culture, and many aboriginals are finding it very hard to adapt. Oodgeroo has rhyming using assonance at the end of every two lines, an example of this would be Now we track bosses to catch a few bob, Now we go walkabout on bus to the job. As you can see bob and job have the same vowel sound. These 2 techniques help the poem flow and also at the same time keeps the reader interested in the poem. The poetic technique of a metaphor is used in this poem, from the phrase “ Lay down the stone axe take up the steel, Work like a nigger for a white man's meal ” This conveys the point that no matter how hard a black man works their salary will never be close to a white native Australian.

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