https://youtu.be/bdpoWcma4HE

Please click this link for Acknowledgement of country around South Australia

If schools can do this so beautifully and easily, then why can't we all do it at TAFE as part of our every day morning or afternoon greeting practice.

Uncle Mickey Kumatpi Marrutya O'Brien

"So, (history) tells you that this (South Australia) was a place of connection of two cultures, two worlds."

Michael Kumatpi Marrutya O'Brien, or Uncle Mickey, is a Senior Aboriginal Man - a descendant of the Kaurna (Adelaide Plains) and Narrunga (Yorke Peninsula) people, and a passionate advocate for Aboriginal culture, language and history.

Evening Student yearly timetables

Database research skills video

How to use ANZRC

How to use NEWSBANK data base

Uni SA Study skills

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Student Feedback (STEP & ELICOS) Term 2 2022 (office.com)

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Child Protection Australia 2018-2019

Deaths in custody resources

Vice doco on the alcohol patrols protecting Indigenous people from arrest - video

Northern Territories Intervention - 'Our Generation' doco

Brisbane Blacks online magazine

http://issuu.com/brisbaneblacks/docs/brisbane_blacks_issue_1

88 Documentary Aboriginal walk for rights

Creative Spirits website and resources

'Treaty' and interview with Yunupingu

Listen to: National Indigenous Radio Service

500 Years of Indigenous Resistance

Diploma B class visits the NAIDOC event at Flinders University which gave them an opportunity to engage with Aboriginal community, ask questions about the current issues and struggles of First Nations Peoples and ask deeper questions relating to argument essay assignments related to Aboriginal political contexts.

Treaty Republic

Gerry Georgatos, PhD Researcher in field of suicide prevention and human rights justice issues.

Works by journalist, activist and television presenter, Jeff McMullen

Unlucky Australians

First Nations cultural stories

Archie Roach: Took the children away'

Lyrics by Archie Roach: https://genius.com/Archie-roach-took-the-children-away-lyrics

Docos and movies

Homelessness Issues for First Nations peoples

This is a starting point of resources for the list of argument topics that you have chosen from.

AUSTRALIAN ONLY Essay topics:

1.     Dredging the Great Barrier Reef

2.     Burrup Peninsula art preservation

3.     Coal mines

4.     COVID19

5.     Keeping South Australia nuclear-free

6. Funding cuts and the privatisation of tertiary education and vocational training in Australia

7.  Coal seam gas fracking in Australia

8.  Medicinal marijuana in Australia

9.  Asylum seekers

10.  Systemic causation of climate change

11.  Privatisation of public services and utilities in Australia

12. Democracy in Australia

Supporting resources for your chosen topics

Unit assessments and support material

Australian Constitution 2020

Click on link above and open the PDF of the Constitution

Cultural Transitions can be seen from many different angles. Two angles include high and low cultural contexts. The following links and videos discuss the many issues that arise from transitioning from one culture to another. Think about which kind of context culture you come from.

Trevor Noah Comedian

Audio topics on counterculture

Examples of subcultures

All about meetings

Supporting resources for your chosen topics

Speaking and pronunciation skills

Listen

These materials are for you particularly if you are from Asian parts of the world

Assessment task

In order to fully understand how the English language actually works, you have to analyse it by way of systemic functional grammar

What joins what to what?

Spotting the bias in media

The General Service List (GSL) This is a list of the most commonly used words and the frequency in which they are used.

Click here for the GSL

You are asked many times during the exams in this course, what rhetorical devices are used in this text. These resources will help to clarify what 'rhetorical devices' means. Here is a summary and to the right are links with excellent examples and definitions:

Types of Rhetorical Devices

Rhetorical devices are loosely organized into the following four categories:

1. Logos. Devices in this category seek to convince and persuade via logic and reason, and will usually make use of statistics, cited facts, and statements by authorities to make their point and persuade the listener.
2. Pathos. These rhetorical devices base their appeal in emotion. This could mean invoking sympathy or pity in the listener, or making the audience angry in the service of inspiring action or changing their mind about something.
3. Ethos. Ethical appeals try to convince the audience that the speaker is a credible source, that their words have weight and must be taken seriously because they are serious and have the experience and judgment necessary to decide what’s right.
4. Kairos. This is one of the most difficult concepts in rhetoric; devices in this category are dependent on the idea that the time has come for a particular idea or action. The very timeliness of the idea is part of the argument.

(Somers, J 2019, What is a rhetorical device? Definition, list examples, viewed 19 November 2021, https://www.thoughtco.com/rhetorical-devices-4169905.

Gender and cultural discrimination in the workplace

Concordance worksheets

An alternative weekly newspaper that reports on national and international issues on envrionmental, human, animal, political and social crises.

Check out worksheets and examples of:

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Enjambment

Simile

metaphor

Hyperbole and much much more

Weasel Words

Collocations

Confusing words and homophones 

Get faster with your reading skills

Doublespeak, critical thinking and politics

Eleanor Marx on feminism and socialism 

Listening means not watching or reading

Note Taking Skills

Environmental Issues

Support materials for issues around incarceration, privatisation of prisons and the socio-political consequences of prisons and privatisation of them.

'Class Act' ABC Radio 2018 series of 4 podcasts on class

World current affairs program with investigative journalism and well considered critical analysis

https://www.youtube.com/junkee

Documentaries/ interviews and lectures

Discussions, economic analysis and politics

Audio topics on multiculturalism and culture shock

Compathos TV - films for critical thinking

Public Intellectual interviews

Documentary Heaven

What we do to fit into a culture that is very different from your own.

Assessment task

Explore:

Most common used English expressions around Australia

Struggle Street Episode 1

Classic Aussie Slang phrases

Australian English; Australian identity Transcript 1 (no audio)

Speaking our English - Australian English Transcript 

Public Intellectuals Profiles

Public Intellectuals List

Empirical evidence based on good experimental design versus weakly evidenced poor experimental design

Support material for writing and understanding critical reviews

'Class Act' ABC Radio 2018 series of 4 podcasts on class

Fallacies galore with descriptions and examples

Spotlight on jury room pressures

Chart of media bias

Socio Political comparisons

You Might Be a Marxist If ... You Believe in From Each According to Their Abilities, to Each According to Their Needs

Lectures Marxism Today

Political Parties and terminologies

Shock Doctrine

Wollongong has a radical, activist history that challenges anywhere else in the country, Woonona author John Rainford says.

A lifelong unionist, Rainford's interest in activism, protest and politics has led him through penning several books on radicalism and onto his latest project - writing and producing a film, Radical Wollongong, chronicling the recorded history of Wollongong through a lens of social activism.

"We have a very real, living history of radicalism here. It's important to tell that story," Rainford said.

Tracing Wollongong's history from indigenous rights issues around European settlement right through to modern-day coal seam gas demonstrations, Radical Wollongong sets out to explore how the city's development has been intimately tied to activism.

From miners' strikes and objections to the Vietnam War draft, to trade unions and gender equality campaigns, Rainford and co-producer Melanie Barnes said they aimed to show how some of the biggest changes in Wollongong had been due to social protest.

"It's the part of Wollongong history that is sometimes forgotten," Barnes said.

"If you or your family weren't part of it, you often don't know the stories.

"The right to have a safe job, equality for women, now the right to live in a safe clean city - it's all linked to social activism."

Interviewing indigenous community leaders, CSG campaigners, unionists, academics and environmentalists, Rainford said the idea of the film was to preserve the region's history - much of which had been scarcely recorded - before it faded away.

Barnes said Radical Wollongong was in post production, with hopes for a May premiere.

"It is fascinating how significantly people power has shaped Wollongong.

"It wouldn't be the city it is today without activism and protest," she said.

The Story of Stuff

The Dark Side of Chocolate

Detention Centres and Refugee Issues

Films For Action

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Pedagogy of the Oppressed Quotes

Pedagogy of the Oppressed Quotes (showing 1-30 of 53)

“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
― Richard Shaull, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

 “Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

tags: liberation, oppression

“[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Gender, Jobs, & Justice at BHP

Debating and speaking skills

1. Essay structure
2. Beginning the essay
3. Developing a thesis
4. Topic sentences
5. Counter arguments
6. Transitioning
7. Ending the essay

Practise yourself

English for everyone is a site for learning the rules of punctuation, grammar, sentence structures, paragraphs and more.

Persuasive language technique

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Doctors Speak Up

This book has links and activities related to medical and non-medical English language used to describe pain.

Medical words for students studying nursing or other medical professions.

Resources for Grammar and Pronunciation units