Australian History and Politics Cecilia Gall

Tue 8:30 & Fri 10:15 Room 142 & 142 Autumn 2023

12 Sept Introduction

15 Sept Overview of Australian history

Read Chapter 1 from Stuart Macintyre’s book, A Concise History of Australia
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/
Stuart_Macintyre_A_Concise_History_of_Australia_ch1-2.pdf

19 Sept Explorations of „The Great South Land”

Read Chapter 2 from Stuart Macintyre’s book, A Concise History of Australia
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/
Stuart_Macintyre_A_Concise_History_of_Australia_ch1-2.pdf

22 Sept Explorations continued

Reading: Chapter 3 from Robert Manne’s book The Fatal Shore
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Fatal_Shore_Chapter_3.PDF

26 Sept Aboriginal History, Traditions

Broome, Richard. “Traditional Life” from Aboriginal Australians
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Traditional_life.pdf

W. H. Edwards: “Relating to the Past” from An Introduction to Aboriginal Societies

http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/W.H._Edwards_Relating_to_the_Past.pdf

29 Sept Watching film Ten Canoes

3 Oct Aboriginal History, Traditions continued

6 Oct The Birth of Sydney

http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Birth_of_Sydney_page_1.PDF
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Birth_of_Sydney_Part_One.PDF
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Birth_of_Sydney_Part_Two.PDF
(also available from the library: Read 1-42 from Birth of Sydney by Tim Flannery)

10 Oct Convict life

Read chapter 6 from Robert Hughes’s book, The Fatal Shore
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Fatal_Shore_Chapter_6.PDF

13 Oct The Colonial Experience

From the diary of Louisa Meredith (Chapter 6)
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Louisa_Meredith.PDF
Society from John Rickard's Australia: A Cultural History
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Society.PDF

16 Oct Colonial society continued

Gold Rush, Eureka stockade
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/gold.pdf
A Workingman's Paradise?” Reading from Richard White's Inventing Australia
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/workingmans_paradise.pdf
20 Oct Overland Explorations (Burke and Wills, Leichart, Sturt)

24 Oct Ned Kelly, bushranger

http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Ned_Kelly_a_folk_hero.pdf

27 Oct Federation, White Australia Policy, The Bulletin, The Boer War
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Loyalties.PDF

31 Oct No class – Autumn break

3 Nov No class – Autumn break

7 Nov 8:10 START! Watching film „Gallipoli” by Peter Weir

10 Nov Gallipoli, First World War

http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Gallipoli.PDF

14 Nov Political Institutions, Parties, CPA

http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Political_Institutions.PDF

17 Nov Australia in WW2

http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Australia_in_World_War_Two.pdf

21 Nov Watching film Rabbit Proof Fence

24 Nov Stolen Generations, Stolen controversies

Robert Manne: Stolen Generations
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/index.html

28 Nov Indigenous Politics, Mabo, Wik, Northerm Territory Intervention, Voice Referendum

1 Dec Multiculturalism: policies and waves

Optional: Hungarians in Australia
Reading: James Jupp: „Politics, Public Policy and Multiculturalism”CHAPTER 2

http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/politics,_public_policy_and_multiculturalism.pdf

5 Dec Relationship between Britain and Australia, Whitlam Dismissal, Republicanism

http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Dependence.pdf

8 Dec Relationship between Australia and the USA

ANZUS, America's Cup
Reading from Little America by Eric Paul
http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/GallCecilia/Little_America.pdf

12 Dec Issues in Contemporary Politics: Boat People, Refugees, Australian politics

15 Dec Conclusion
Final essay due

Assessment by attendance, participation, presentation and one essay (6-8 pages, MLA style) on a
given topic. 2 short revision tests. 2 presentations = short essay of 3-4 pages.
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