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| Dominant narratives presume Australians to be of what heritage? |
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| When analyzing racism the most important dynamic to consider is? |
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| Ethnic male groups who feel powerless in society often attempt to level the scales through what? |
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| What non-British and non-indigenous group was vilified first in Australia? |
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| Why was there a paranoid edge to the White Australia philosophy? |
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| Australia is a small, British outpost surrounded by "others" |
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| What were the two reasons displaced South Vietnamese immigrated to Australia in the 1970s? |
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| didn't have to learn English, gold rush |
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| What ethnicities does the campaign 'We Are All Boat People' leave out? |
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| When did the Australian government switch from a policy of assimilation to multiculturalism? |
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| What is the natural tendency of migrants when it comes to settlement patterns? |
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| organize in groups of immigrants |
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| Who is most aware of the representational Australian codes? |
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| minorities, those they affect |
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| What was the name of the government inquiry that Rabbit Proof Fence is a response to? |
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| Moore River Native Settlement |
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| How far do the girls walk in the film? |
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| What percentages of aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families? |
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| Campaigners against the Stolen Generations claims argue that the witnesses' testimonies are? |
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| 'distorted memories' of the past, instead of what they call 'official' history: government documents, statistics, legislation, and the like |
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| Why does Ackerman believe that the film fails as a work of history? |
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| its primary aim is to elicit emotions |
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| Why did Noyce take a Hollywood stylistic approach to his making of Rabbit Proof Fence? |
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| Hollywood knows how to reach audiences |
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| What elements does Susan Dermody see in the lost children films? |
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| quest is fulfilled through a series of physical challenges in unfamiliar territory and the motivation of the hero is idealist rather than comic-tragic or satiric and pessimistic |
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| Pierce argues that lost children symbolically represent what? |
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| the anxieties of European settlers because of their ties with home which they have cut coming to Australia |
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| The aboriginal children, although more connected to the land, must return home because the land around the Moore River settlement is doing what to Molly? |
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| What does Molly hear that calls her home? |
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| Who directed Rabbit Proof Fence |
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| Who was Mr. O.A. Neville? |
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| Kenneth Branaugh, protector of aborigines in town |
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| How is O.A. Neville depicted in the film? |
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| racist, paternalistic, believes what he is doing is right |
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| What year was the film set in? |
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| What are the names of the three aboriginal girls depicted in the film? |
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| Doris Pilkington Garimara |
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| What is the term used for the quarter-caste and half-caste aboriginal children who were removed from their mothers? |
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| When did this policy stop being in effect? |
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| The aboriginal powers of culture, native education and survival skills are seen as inferior to which well-established powers of the white empire builders? |
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| Ultimately, neither the strength of aboriginal culture, nor the authority of the white man is successful. Because at the time, the whites did not achieve their goal of completely civilizing the aboriginal race and? |
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| despite their attempts, the whites did not get all the half-castes out, did no civilize aborigines, as a result the culture of the aborigines is partly lost |
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