Australian Identity Speech

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Greetings class and Miss Rathbone, I Josh stand before you all here today to present this magnificent speech on Australian Identity.
To begin with, Australian identity is a subject that has been ever-changing. I personally believe that Australian identity involves ideas such as mateship and patriotism, along with having BBQ with the family and eating vegemite for all 3 meals of the day. First off, I would like to explain how Australian identity is portrayed in the short story, “His Country After All”, written by Henry Lawson. In this particular story, it describes a man’s love and nostalgia for his home country after leaving it. He touches on subjects including why he dislikes the Australia so much but also why he misses it and wants to return to the Australia. …show more content…
It is described as a patriotic country having people go to war to keep the people back home safe, as well as a country that is a thriving in businessman, as quoted from the story “its wilderness is rough and a few cities made for foreign speculators” and also a country that is nothing but a god forbidden land and filled with deserts as far as the eye can see. To build upon this, I would now like to address Australian Identity through the use of my second source, a memoir. This memoir explains of a story of a young lady who made her way to Australia with her family through a very dangerous means of transport, a boat. It explains her personal experiences during the earlier periods of her life in
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