Becoming Australia - 54098
Becoming Australia is an elective subject undertaken by students in their second or third year of the Bachelor of Communications or Bachelor of International Studies. More info. One of the assessments in this unit asks students to create an experimental piece of history. You can see and hear some of the student's fabulous creations below.
Showcase of Student Work
Autumn Semester, 2020
Student name: Ana-Elisa Wingrave
Type of work: Magazine PDF
Title: Urban Unorthodoxy
Description: Presents histories of Darlinghurst through magazine articles packaged together. View work.
Student name: Blue Dinh
Type of work: Booklet PDF
Title: Barangaroo
Description: The booklet tells the story of Barangaroo through graphic design. Take a peek at the booklet Blue created.
Student name: Camryn Brianna Larwill
Type of work: Re-written news articles
Title: THE MISSING PERSPECTIVE IN THE HISTORY OF KAKADU NATIONAL PARK
Description: Camryn rewrote four historical news articles about Kakadu national park (published across 1970s-1990s) to include Indigenous perspectives in the reporting. Read the articles.
Student name: Charlotte McKay
Type of work: Website/poetic journey
Title: Means to Move: An Inner West Walking Tour Through Poetry
Description: A series of poems presented on a wordpress site about different places around inner-west Sydney.
Student name: Emma Higgins
Type of work: Auditory walking tour
Title: The Sydney Diaries: Ep. 1 The Rocks
Description: A walking tour through The Rocks that offers a stream-of-consciousness type narration from a fictional protagonist. Listen now.
Student name: Daniella Scotti
Type of work: Podcast
Title: Draw the Line
Description: A podcast about the recent destruction of Juukan Gorge. Listen now.
Student name: Megan Daly
Type of work: Radio Play
Title: The Council of Australian National Heritage: The Case of one Black Mary
Description: A radio play about Indigenous Bushranger Mary Cockerill (1798?-1819). This piece of experimental history imagines Mary arguing for her inclusion on the "Council of Australian National Heritage". Listen now.
Student name: Nusardel Oshana
Type of work: Podcast
Title: The Queer Australian Archive
Description: The podcast where we dig into history to uncover the queer stories hidden right under our noses. Listen now.
Student name: Rose Levy
Type of work: Reflective writing/op-ed piece
Title: Hyde Park: The Preservation of Silence or the Memorialisation of Truth?
Description: A reflective piece of writing that considers the histories remembered by the different monuments in Sydney’s Hyde Park and the inter-relationships between them. Read the piece.
Student name: Sarah Willing
Type of work: Historical/speculative fiction
Title: Thursday 28th December 1989
Description: Fictionalisation of the experiences of the first nurse on the scene at the Newcastle Workers Club during the 1989 Newcastle Earthquake, based on research and an oral history with the nurse, Lesley Salem (née Elvin), who is the author’s aunt. The author has asked us to note that their aunt’s married name is Lesley Salem (described as Lesley Elvin in story as this was correct at time). Read the story.