Australia

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-15674351

COMPETENCES LANGAGIERES : COMPREHENSION ECRITE EXPRESSION ECRITE

Compréhension écrite

Objectifs :

-trier les informations importantes

-Faire un compte-rendu

-argumenter

Modalité : Pédagogie différenciée

Tâche 1 : Make a summary of what you learn about Australia and say if it is important for a catering or hospitality manager to learn about Australia.

Tâche 2 : How much do you know about the stolen generation ?

Australia ranks as one of the best countries to live in the world by international comparisons of wealth, education, health and quality of life. The sixth-largest country by land mass, its population is comparatively small with most people living around the eastern and south-eastern coastlines.

The country’s first inhabitants, the Aboriginal people, are believed to have migrated from Asia tens of thousands of years before the arrival of British settlers in 1788. They now make up less than 3% of Australia’s 23 million people.

Years of mass immigration after the Second World War heralded sweeping demographic changes, making modern Australia one of the world’s most multicultural countries. But migration continues to be a sensitive issue politically.

In shaping its foreign and economic policy, Australia first looked to Europe and the US but in the last 20 years has developed stronger ties with Asia.

Although Australia remains part of the Commonwealth, the future role of the monarchy has been a recurring issue in politics. An aging population, pressure on infrastructure and environmental concerns such as climate change are some of the long-term challenges facing the country.

 A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

 Capital: Canberra

  • Population9 million
  • Area7 million sq km (2.9 million sq miles)
  • Major languageEnglish
  • Major religionChristianity
  • Life expectancy80 years (men), 84 years (women)
  • CurrencyAustralian dollar UN, World Bank

 LEADERS

  • Monarch: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by a governor-general
  • Prime Minister: Scott Morrison

 

B)The stolen generation

Sorry apology by the former Primer Minister : Kevin Rudd

https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/stolen-generations/sorry-apology-to-stolen-generations

Apology Transcript ?

The Speaker of the House (Hon Harry Jenkins MP): The Clerk.

The Clerk: Government business notice number 1, Motion offering an apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples.

The Speaker: Prime Minister.

Prime Minister (Hon Kevin Rudd MP): Mr Speaker, I move:

That today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history.

We reflect on their past mistreatment.

We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were Stolen Generations – this blemished chapter in our nation’s history.

The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia’s history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future.

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.

We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.

For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.

To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry.

And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry.

We the Parliament of Australia respectfully request that this apology be received in the spirit in which it is offered as part of the healing of the nation.

For the future we take heart; resolving that this new page in the history of our great continent can now be written.