Analysis Of Noel Pearson's Speech An Australian History For Us All

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Noel Pearson’s speech “An Australian History for us All”, explores the divides and the disparities that exist between the Aboriginal and non-aboriginal people in our society that prevent us as a state from achieving reconciliation, unity and a national identity. Pearson through rhetoric persuades the audience that there are questions that need to be asked concerning the accuracy of Australian history. Through judicial rhetoric Pearson Highlights the past and present injustices suffered by the Indigenous people and the inaccuracies of Australian history. Pearson emphasises how a policeman appointed “as the protector of the Aborigines in Central Australia, went out to arrest a native who was reputed to have killed a white man”. However, within
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