AUSTRALIAN

LITERATURE
Report by: Vrix Andrada
 CONTENTS

1 FACTS 3 LOCATION

STATES AND
2 HISTORY 4 TERRITORIES
 CONTENTS

AUSTRALIAN
5 CITIES 6 LITERATURE
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FACTS
 FACTS

Population- 25,874,733 Area- 7,692,024 km2

Language- English
 FACTS
SOUTHERN CROSS

UNION FLAG

THE COMMONWEALTH 7 POINTED STAR

FACTS
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HISTORY
 HISTORY
Discovered by the Dutch in the early 1600’s.But it
was Englishman James Cook who claimed Australia
for Britain in 1770.

Britain 1st used the country as a penal colony and a

total of 160,000 people came to Australia as
convicts.

Europeans sold the land of Aborigines and killed

thousands of them to claim land. Finally in 1901 that
the whole of Australia came under 1 constitution.
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LOCATION
 LOCATION
Australia is located at
Southern Hemisphere. The
seasons in Australia are the
opposite of those in Europe

● the 6th biggest country in

the world.
● It’s an island, surrounded
by water.
● It’s the smallest continent
in the world.
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STATES AND TERRITORIES

 STATES AND TERRITORIES

Western Australia,
Northern Territory,
Queensland, South
Australia, New South
Wales, Victoria and
Tasmania
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CITIES
 CITIES

Canberra Sydney
 CITIES

Melbourne Perth
 CITIES

Adelaide Brisbane
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LITERATURE
 Australian literature is characterized by
geographical and historical influences. it has
native culture, the Aboriginal spanning
hundreds and thousands of years, And the
European colonization starting 1788.
SUMMARY
History and geography play two great factors in the
continent’s literature. It's native literature needs consist
of works with reference to its original native people and
works reflective of European colonization and influence.
There is also contemporary literature which reflects the
growth of creative work from the end of the 19th century
up to the present so in general the literature of Australia
is described as the literature of a young country.
 the continent to be viewed
as penal colony for the
Most salient shared undesirable elements of
eighteenth-century England
experience consists as whitewash territory
precisely in cleansed of undesired
aboriginal populations. And
displacement became as a promised land
for immigrants Whose
option ran out in their own
native geographies
• 1973, Patrick White was
awarded the nobel prize for
literature.
• Universal themes are so
evident in most recent works
of fiction such as dirt music
by Tim Winton
PATRICK WHITE
Doris Pilkington and Jack Davis have also made
their mark in the contemporary scene in recent
poetry, the theme of the holocaust has been a
subject.
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THEME OF AUSTRALIAN
LITERATURE
 ● ABORIGINALITY

THEME OF ●
●
MATESHIP
EGALITARIANISM
●
AUSTRALIAN
DEMOCRACY
● NATIONAL IDENTITY
● MIGRATION
LITERATURE ● AUSTRALIAN’S UNIQUE
LOCATION & GEOGRAPHY
● THE BEAUTY & TERROR OF
THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH
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