2. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. Success Criteria: You will be able to identify and comment on how and why satire is used as a poetic device.

3. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. What is satire? In pairs, brainstorm what you think satire might be. See if you can provide any examples.

4. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. Satire is the process of holding individuals, ideas, nations, religions and other organisations up to examination and ridicule. Satire is frequently associated with humour, although not necessarily, and satire frequently uses irony or sarcasm to make its point. It uses this ridicule in an attempt to create change.

5. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. What was, in the context of Australia, the bicentennial?

6. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. The bicentennial was the commemoration of 200 years since the arrival of the First Fleet in Botany Bay and marks the beginning of european colonisation in Australia. It was a large, public event that received considerable funding and publicity in the Australian media.

7. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. Watch this film clip; it was a promotional video from the 1988 bicentennial celebrations in Australia.this

8. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. Listen to “Bicentennial” by Paul Kelly, and follow along in your book.

9. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. In 1987, a royal commission was instituted to examine the issue of aboriginal deaths while in police custody. The commission examined 99 deaths that occurred between 1980 and 1989. This commission found that “The circumstances of their deaths were extremely varied. One cannot point to a common thread of abuse, neglect or racism that is common to these deaths. However, an examination of the lives of the ninety-nine shows that facts associated in every case with their Aboriginality played a significant and in most cases dominant role in their being in custody and dying in custody.” (National Report 1: The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody)

10. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. What is Paul Kelly satirising in his poem “Bicentennial”? What are the issues that he is referring to?

11. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. Writing Exercise Write a TEEL paragraph on the use of satire in “Bicentennial” – address the following points: 1)What are the issues Kelly is satirising 2) What is the viewpoint Kelly is presenting? 3)What are the satirical elements of “Bicentennial”, and how do they work?