1. Persuasive technique
1.1. Repetition
1.1.1. The phrase “Australian Dream” (11 times) is used extensively in the text, to point out what is wrong with this ideal.
1.1.1.1. to lay emphasis on the thing he is criticising—the racial issues embedded in the Australian Dream.
1.2. Personification
1.2.1. “Racism is killing the Australian Dream”
1.2.1.1. makes the speech more emotive by prompting the audience to relate their own experiences as human beings to that of the country as a whole.
1.3. rhetorical questions
1.3.1. “Australia has turned to face itself. It has looked into its soul and it has had to ask this question: Who are we? What sort of country do we want to be?”
1.3.1.1. inspiring the audience to reflect on Australian identity
1.4. alliteration
1.4.1. to frame his arguments: “We heard a howl. We heard a howl of humiliation that echoes across two centuries of dispossession, injustice, suffering and survival.” / “The Australian Dream is rooted in racism.”
2. Impact towards society
2.1. The book " The Tears of Stranger" was release which raised ideas about racism in the Aboriginal Society. "Talking to my country " was released following recent acts of racism in society today. Those books send powerful and influential messages to the readers of racism problems in society
3. Biography
3.1. An Australian journalist and the influential icon for the movement against the racism in the Australian society.
3.2. Born 30 September 1963, an aboriginal ancestry , from the Wiradjuri , born in Griffith NSW
3.3. become a voice to speak up for the Aboriginal Society and an influence for a movement against the institutionalised racism in Australia
4. Themes
4.1. Racial Equality
4.1.1. Grant’s grandfather served to fight wars for his country when he wasn’t a citizen and he couldn’t share a drink with his soldiers because he was black. The society and people discriminates races that are different from the mainstream even with elevated level of excellence and achievements like his grandfather. His great grandfather was jailed for speaking his mother tongue’s language. This shows that the level of racism in the previous generations are relatively high that caused Grant to make his speech.
4.2. Gender Equality
4.2.1. Grant recalled about his grandmother’s words where she was turned down by the hospital officials when she was trying to give birth. This was largely due to her gender and race. She was a woman and a black person. As a result, the society looked down these people and not giving them an equal chance for the accessibility of the hospital services.
4.2.1.1. Taylor was kidnapped while leaving church and gang-raped by six white men Despite the men's confessions to authorities, two grand juries subsequently declined to indict the men; no charges were ever brought against her assailants.n the months following the trial, Taylor received multiple death threats, and her home was firebombed by white supremacists. Taylor, along with her husband and child, moved into the family home, where her father and siblings would help protect Taylor from other death threats.
4.3. A sense of pride for the country
4.3.1. Grant showed that he is proud of his country due to its extraordinary achievements. His country had participated in war zones from Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan and won the war and received respects from the world. He also stated that he loves to argue passionately for his country because of its excellency.