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Heywire: Woolly holiday

For Genevieve Wright, the first day of school holidays means heading to the shearing shed to spend a day of back-breaking work! As you listen to her Heywire audio story, explore Genevieve's characterisation of herself. How does she reflect her personality through the descriptions of her actions and environment?<br /><br ...

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Purdiwan: Pretty One

The Garrwa people live inland from the Gulf of Carpentaria, on either side of the border between the Northern Territory and Queensland. In this brief but beautiful animation, a Garrwa woman herds her pretty goats eastward.

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Heywire: Sporting Volunteers

Sport is a way of life for many Australians. Often all we see are the players on the field, but have you ever thought about what is involved behind the scenes? Jarvis Holt from Kurraca, Victoria, was a finalist of the 2012 Heywire storytelling competition for young people. Listen as he explores the whole army of people ...

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Syllabus bites: Visual literacy

A resource with information, study guides and resources on visual literacy to support the English K-10 Australian Curriculum in English. It provides a series of activities, guidelines and tasks about visual texts from a variety of sources. Contains writing scaffolds, templates and proformas for responding and composing ...

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Seven billion people, seven billion stories: What makes a compelling life story?

This is a unit of inquiry made up of 12 learning sequences for year 9 in the English for the Australian Curriculum resource. Each learning sequence contains a series of resources, suggested activities to carry out with students and a post-activity reflection. This unit gives students experiences of listening to, viewing ...

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My Place - Episode 17: 1848: Johanna, Loves me, loves me not

This 3-minute film clip is from the ABC My Place series and tracks the fictional experiences of Joanna, a young girl in 1848 in Australia. In this clip, Johanna reads aloud a letter from her uncle addressed to her grandmother who is illiterate; and they visit the grave of Joanna’s mother. There is an accompanying set of ...

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My Place - Episode 17: 1848: Johanna, Torment

This 3-minute film clip is from the ABC My Place series and tracks the fictional experiences of Johanna, a young girl in 1848 in Australia. There is an accompanying set of downloadable worksheets. One activity asks students to consider the concept of portraiture through history. Another activity invites students to research ...

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Pocket Compass, Ep 2: Women's liberation movement

The 1960s was a time of various social and political movements, including the women's liberation movement. The feminists of this movement were fighting for equality and liberation from predefined roles in society. Learn about some of the changes they were fighting for and how feminism has changed over the years.

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My Place - Episode 16: 1858: Benjamin, Working together

This 3-minute film clip is from the ABC My Place series and tracks the experiences of young boys Ben and Leck in 1858 in Australia. This clip shows the boys working together to repair a broken clock. They discuss a racist slur about Chinese people that Ben has heard from an adult. In this clip we see Ben and Leck working ...

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My Place - Episode 16: 1858: Benjamin, Eggs for tuppence

This 3-minute film clip is from the ABC My Place series and tracks the experiences of young boys Ben and Leck in 1858 in Australia. After foraging in the forest for plover's eggs, Ben competes with Leck to sell them to the local populace. There is an accompanying set of downloadable worksheets which focus on how characters ...

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Vivid Sydney – 77 Million Paintings

A series of video interviews with Nick Robertson about Brian Eno's '77 Million Paintings' installation, which was part of an exhibition in Vivid Sydney 2009. The resource includes clips of the installation.

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Suffragist publication cover, 1900

This black-and-white cartoon cover of the second issue of The Australian Woman’s Sphere, published in October 1900, was part of the campaign for the right of women to vote. It portrays a young woman as scholarly and attractive but without the right to vote, contrasted with eight men presented as unworthy of the vote they ...

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Chinese men on the road to the Palmer River gold field, 1875

This black-and-white wood engraving shows a stereotypical image of Chinese men walking in a line to the Palmer River gold field in northern Queensland. It appeared in the Australasian Sketcher with the title 'CHINESE ON THE ROAD TO THE PALMER'. The six men in the foreground are wearing a variety of traditional clothing ...

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Gender expectations

Students examine how diversity and gender are often represented in the media and the impact this has on personal identities.