HIST1051 Study Guide - Final Guide: Australian Defence Force, Anzac Spirit, Joseph Banks
HISTORY REVISION
WEEK 1
Aboriginal Australia
• What sources can we use to construct an image of pre-contact Aboriginal society?
• What do we know about the cultural life of Aboriginal peoples prior to 1788?
• Were Aboriginal groups hunter-gatherers or did they cultivate the land?
WEEK 2
Dispossession and possession
1. What are some of the differences between western European traditions of history and
Aboriginal traditions of history?
2. To what extent was Australia untouched by civilisation until the arrival of the British in 1788?
3. What ere are the ipliatios of the lai that the British disoered Australia?
Botany Bay
1) What evidence is there for and against the argument that Botany Bay was colonised for
convicts?
2) What evidence is there for and against the argument that Botany Bay was colonised for
empire?
3) Which argument is more convincing?
WEEK 3
Convict Lives
1) Who were the convicts?
2) What factors meant that convict experience was not all the same?
3) How did the convict period affect Australia?
Order and Disorder
1) Where did the laws of the Australian colonies originate?
2) What were they intended to achieve?
3) How were people differently affected by particular laws and the ways in which they were
enforced?
4) Why do some people admire some criminals, then and now?
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WEEK 4
On the Frontier
1) What is eat the ter frotier ad ho does it relate to the Australia eperiee?
2) Was the frontier violent? If so, what was the cause of violence?
3) Ho hae historias iterpretatios of the frotier haged?
Gold and the Transformation of Australian society
1) What were the short and long-term impacts of the gold rushes?
2) Was the Eureka Stockade the birthplace of Australian democracy?
3) What as the eperiee of the Chiese diggers o the goldfields?
WEEK 5
Turning the map upside down
• How does the history of the north change the way we understand Australian history?
Federating a white Australia
1) What sort of nation was Australia at the time of federation in 1901?
2) What was the relationship between federation and the WAP?
3) How was the WAP justified?
WEEK 6
Australia and the first world war
• How did Australians respond to the declaration of war?
• When, where, and why did Australians fight?
• How did the war affect the daily lives of Australians at home?
• Why did the issue of conscription become so divisive?
Black diggers
What motivated Aboriginal men to enlist in the Australian Defence Forces in the First World
War?
Why has there been little acknowledgment of Aboriginal wartime contributions until very
recently?
To what extent have Aboriginal people been incorporated into the Anzac Legend?
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