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A summary of the speech "The Redfern Speech" by Prime Minister Paul Keating in the prescribed 'Speeches' Unit. This document contains context, purpose, ideas and values, and techniques used in the text....

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THE REDFERN SPEECH Context and purpose Speaker: Prime Minister Paul Keating Where: Redfern Park When: 10th December 1992

Central Ideas and Values -

Reconciliation Spoken in Redfern, a place of historical importance as the site of protests and community gatherings of the Black Power movement in Australia since the 1960s Keating spoke to the predominately Aboriginal audience but addressed the nonAboriginals in an emotive and direct way

QUOTE “To bring the dispossessed out of the shadows”

“The starting point might be to recognise that the problem starts with us non-Aboriginal Australians. It begins, I think, with that act of recognition” “…It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion.” “We failed to ask - how would I feel if this were done to me?”

TECHNIQUES Metaphor Kairos (at the opportune time and place) Emotive and direct Confronting

EXPLANATION Adds significance to his speech

Anaphora Cumulative listing

The appeal to pathos in the nonaboriginals and the relief that came to the Aboriginals as a politician, for the first time, admits culpability and guilt towards the treatment of Aboriginal Australians

Pathos and candid and confronting approach rhetorical question

Appeal the pathos is used to incite discussion and evoke change Keating presents an intensely critical view of White Australia’s humanity in mistreating the native population

Keating critiques society and strives to incite change...