Module B: 'The Redfern Speech' 1992

Question 1

“We brought the diseases… We committed the murders… We failed to see that what we were doing degraded all of us”.

Answer 1

anaphoric references to the past, Keating uses active emotive language to list the wrongdoings committed by colonial Australia

Question 2

“We brought the diseases… We committed the murders… We failed to see that what we were doing degraded all of us”.

Answer 2

This strong appeal to Pathos through parallelism and the use of the first person attempts to persuade a broader, largely ignorant Australian society to acknowledge the plight of ATSI peoples.

Question 3

Importantly, K provides insight into the shared emotional impact that failing to

Answer 3

act on injustice can have on entire populations

Question 4

We come to appreciate the importance of speeches

Answer 4

that attempt to address injustice and why they resonate so deeply within a society afflicted by this wrongdoing.

Question 5

Audience’s response of emotive cheering indicates

Answer 5

Indicates Keating succeeded in observing decorum despite the unpleasant, sensitive message.

Question 6

“Guilt is not a very constructive emotion. I think what we need to do is open our hearts a bit. All of us.”

Answer 6

Inclusive language- link to Lessing.

Deliberative rhetoric

Question 7

effect “Guilt is not a very constructive emotion. I think what we need to do is open our hearts a bit. All of us.”

Answer 7

Conveys his purposes and that to achieve justice, injustices must first be recognised, (theme of humanity)

Question 8

‘many of our own most deeply held values, much of our own identity- and our own humanity.’

Answer 8

Inlucisve language and emotive language

Question 9

Effect :‘many of our own most deeply held values, much of our own identity- and our own humanity.’

Answer 9

Establishes his credibility and ethos attempting to persuade his audience to unite. (Link to Sadat-humanity & unity)

Question 10

“…if we can build a … harmonious multicultural society… we can find just solutions to the problems which beset the first Australians.”

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Inclusive language, repeated ‘we can’ and kinaesthetic imagery

Question 11

Effect: “…if we can build a … harmonious multicultural society… we can find just solutions to the problems which beset the first Australians.”

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Appeals to logos, further stressing notion of recognition

Question 12

“Redfern is a good place to contemplate these things”.

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recognition of Kairos, enhancing the resonance of his message.

Question 13

We realise that to respond to perceived injustices, the speechwriter themselves must be

Answer 13

passionate for the issue they address, as recognised by Keating. in his speech he powerfully demonstrates the passion and attitude necessary to surpass immense disconnect and inequality between ATSI and non-ATSI peoples.

Question 14

Keating depicts notion that positive attitude and action is required to address the wrongdoings committed by colonial Australia to the ATSI community

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explicating the benefit it would have on the whole of Australia. (through dehortatio.)

Question 15

. “imagine the Aboriginal view”

Answer 15

dehortatio

Question 16

Keating uses dehortatio to compels his audience to . “imagine the Aboriginal view” as a way of initiating the process of reconciliation.

Answer 16

By powerfully referencing the zeitgeist of the 1990’s, he provides a sense of hope for the future…

Question 17

He holds that this is the path towards achieving a truly cohesive society, one where ATSI people are fully embraced is represented in the speech through ….as Keating compels non-indigenous Australians to…

Answer 17

dehortatio

. “imagine the Aboriginal view”

Question 18

By powerfully referencing the zeitgeist of the 1990’s, he provides a sense of hope for the future as portrayed through the conduplicatio in the exemplum

Answer 18

“Someone imagined this event today and it is now a great reason for hope.”

Question 19

“Someone imagined this event today and it is now a great reason for hope.”

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conduplicatio in the exemplum

Question 20

• Keating’s speech ingeniously reflects the social context of 1990’s Australia whilst

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challenging it, demonstrating the value of rhetorical techniques in expressing ideas that remain pertinent to contemporary society.

Question 21

• At a time when white Australians were largely ignorant of the plight of Aboriginal peoples, Paul Keating’s ‘Redfern Speech’ (1992) represents

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the first act of recognition of injustice experienced by the Aboriginal community by an Australian Prime Minister.

Question 22

At a time when white Australians were largely ignorant of the plight of Aboriginal peoples, Paul Keating’s ‘Redfern Speech’ (1992) represents the first act of recognition of injustice experienced by the Aboriginal community by an Australian Prime Minister. This has greatly contributed to the speech’s enduring relevance as

Answer 22

Keating highlights that injustice must first be recognised before justice can be realised.