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I think that Australia is represented the best by Aboriginals. They started Australia and in some way they made Australia how it is today. Aboriginals have created a special dynamic to the country and they have influenced many. However, the first white settlers ruined the lives of many Aboriginals. They did not apologize to them until only recently in 2008, when Kevin Rudd delivered a speech about 'stolen generations' of the Aboriginals. I think we all need to understand how the Aboriginals made Australia how it is today. I don’t think that we have been very fair to them over the hundreds of years and I don’t think that they deserved any of it. We destroyed them. Australians have been very racist to the Aboriginals, and some still are today. This to me shows that some Australian's are aggressive and can be very set in their ways. I decided to choose to use Rabbit Proof Fence as a visual, No More Boomerang as one of my written and my other written was Kevin Rudd's apology about Stolen Generations.

Aboriginal art portrays the meaning of what was the aboriginal way of life. This visual representation below, explains our perspective on Australia because it shows how the aboriginals lived before the whites took away generations of dreamtime stories and generations of traditional ways of life.

Kevin Rudd's Apology to Stolen Generations "Our nation Australia has reached such a time and that is why the parliament is today here assembled,'' he said. "To deal with this unfinished business of the nation. "To remove a great stain from the nation's soul and in the true spirit of reconciliation to open a new chapter in the history of this great land Australia.'' **'We apologise'** "We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians," the apology read.

"We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.

"For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.

"To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry.

"And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry."

Kevin Rudd's apology reached hundreds of Aboriginals hearts. However we can not give back what we took from the Aboriginals. They will probably never forgive us for what we did, but everyone can now get on with their lives. It has created some peace between two very different views of the world, and two very different cultures. It has created a better understanding between Australians and Aboriginals. It also made things clear about what happened and that we are owning up for what we did.

Analysis of 2 prose texts Visual: The movie poster of Rabbit Proof Fence Newspaper Article: Kevin Rudd's apology (Stolen Generations)

Rabbit Proof Fence is about 3 girls being taken away from their family to an nearby re-education camp where they soon decide to escape. They know that their home in Jigalong lies along the rabbit proof fence in the northern Australia. The fence runs for several thousand miles. They follow the fence for several weeks hiding from their trackers. They finally make it not far from their home and are reunited with their family. The stereotype that the whites in charge of the camp were harsh. The stereotype of the aboriginal girls were brave and determination to get home. The movie shows the white people wearing upper class clothes whereas the girls were wearing rags. It visually represents what Australia was like back in the 1930s. The two texts I have chosen have a link. Rabbit Proof Fence is about captured children being taken to camps and then Kevin Rudd made his official apology about 'Stolen Generations' in 2008. They both describe how harsh the white people were on the aboriginals and they both represent they same meaning. Kevin Rudd used lots of persuasive language in his speech which allowed the aboriginals to put trust into his words. The movie is to show how harsh the times were and his speech is to show how much it means to us and how much we want to make everything better.