2 8 August Tutorial 2: Australian citizenship and identity Reading: Alison Holland. The common bond?

Australian citizenship, in Martyn Lyons and Penny Russell (eds). Australias History: themes and debates. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005, 152-171. This reading discusses some of the issues that currently engage policy makers, scholars and Australians in general with respect to the nature of Australian citizenship and Australian identity. What issues does the author raise and what points does she make? A significant proportion of Australian citizens are migrants or are the children of migrants. Indeed all Australians, with the exception of the Aborigines are descended from immigrants. What, if any, are the implications of these facts for Australias society and sense of identity? What unites us as Australians? Is Australian the same as Australian citizen? 3 15 August Tutorial 3: British settlement and historical starting points Reading: Regina Ganter. The view from the north in Martyn Lyons and Penny Russell (eds.). Australias History: themes and debates. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005, 4162. This reading takes issue with the traditional viewpoint of Australias European settlement and subsequent history which begins in 1788 and relegates the north to an empty and/or primitive and wild periphery. In what ways do Ganters views differ from and challenge the traditional accounts? Does the knowledge of centuries of contact between Aboriginal Australians and Asians change your understanding of pre 1788 Australias place in the world? Does the prominence and continuity of Asians in the economy and history of Australias north and its independent links with the outside world mean we need to re-frame our historical narrative? Or is the northern experience still merely the exception to the rule of the dominant story, one of British settlement? 4 22 August Tutorial 4: Settlers, Convicts and Aborigines Reading: Penny Russell. Unsettling settler society, in Martyn Lyons and Penny Russell (eds.). Australias History: themes and debates: Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2005, 2240. This (slightly more difficult) reading is about modern Australias construction as a settler society. Why does Russell use the phrase unsettling settler society in her title to this chapter? Were the convicts the real founding fathers of modern Australia? How have different historians perceived and represented the convicts and why? Why has the moral character of convicts featured so much in historical studies? Consider this in light of the much changed attitudes of Australians towards convict ancestors. To what extent, if any, do the modern Australian ethos and culture derive from Australias origins as a penal colony? What does Russell have to say about manners and why are they important to her analysis? Think about this question in relation to colonialisms culture (p.38) and the civilising mission (p.33) and to the twin stains of convict and aboriginal ancestry