LIFE AT THE TIME OF FEDERATION
Click on the IMAGES link below to look at some historical resources that reveal what life was like at the time of Federation. Look at each object or document and analyse them to gain information and ideas about life in 1901 or soon after.
Question to consider for each image:
What does this object suggest to you about Australia at the time?
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Consider:
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Home
Values
Family
Technology
Attitudes
Ideas of Nation
Loyalties
School
Entertainment
Beliefs
Citizenship
Hopes
Work
Clothing
Identity
Fears
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Question to consider for each image:
What does this object suggest to you about Australia at the time?
Useful questions for 'interrogating' an object or document.
what is it?
who wrote it?
why did they write it?
what's its message?
who was it written for? what is its purpose?
how does it work?
is it important?