faith Bandler
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Ideas that Bandler draws up on her speech commence even from the beginning, starting with the title “Faith, hope, and reconciliation”. Faith is a pun played on her name, while the entire title alludes to the biblical religious connotation “faith, hope, and charity”. As the bible emphasizes the importance of charity, Bandler emphasizes the importance of reconciliation between her people and the rest of the people. Bandler draws on her own experiences in this speech and wants reconciliation between Aborigines and White Australians through the use of first person. The use of the first person also lets the speech relate to Bandler and it establishes inclusivity.
Faith Bandler uses a variety of rhetorical techniques in Faith, Hope and Reconciliation to portray her memorable message of equality. Bandler’s speech explores the prejudice that Aborigines had to endure, and encourages the reconciliation process to move faster. She opens her speech with separate acknowledgments to “the Indigenous people of Illawarra” and “Lord Mayor, Evelyn Scott, Linda Burney.” This highlights the division between races and subtly introduces her topic of reconciliation. She uses inclusive language to reveal “not what is in it for me, but what is in it for us”, and this is memorable as she is choosing not to divide, instead indicating the benefits of reconciliation to not just Indigenous Australians, but to all. This is unlike Noel Pearson, whose acerbic attack on John Howard’s politics was most memorable, sarcastically stating that Howard “might care to read Robert Hughes rather than the opinion polls” to “comprehend how we might deal with our history”. Bandler was an unwavering campaigner for equal rights in the 1960s, and was integral in making the 1967 Referendum a memorable success. She reminisces on how she and other activists had “lived, breathed, struggled... climbed”, where the cumulative listing emphasizes the hardships that Aborigines had to endure, as well as
Ideas that Bandler draws up on her speech commence even from the beginning, starting with the title “Faith, hope, and reconciliation”. Faith is a pun played on her name, while the entire title alludes to the biblical religious connotation “faith, hope, and charity”. As the bible emphasizes the importance of charity, Bandler emphasizes the importance of reconciliation between her people and the rest of the people. Bandler draws on her own experiences in this speech and wants reconciliation between Aborigines and White Australians through the use of first person. The use of the first person also lets the speech relate to Bandler and it establishes inclusivity.
Faith Bandler uses a variety of rhetorical techniques in Faith, Hope and Reconciliation to portray her memorable message of equality. Bandler’s speech explores the prejudice that Aborigines had to endure, and encourages the reconciliation process to move faster. She opens her speech with separate acknowledgments to “the Indigenous people of Illawarra” and “Lord Mayor, Evelyn Scott, Linda Burney.” This highlights the division between races and subtly introduces her topic of reconciliation. She uses inclusive language to reveal “not what is in it for me, but what is in it for us”, and this is memorable as she is choosing not to divide, instead indicating the benefits of reconciliation to not just Indigenous Australians, but to all. This is unlike Noel Pearson, whose acerbic attack on John Howard’s politics was most memorable, sarcastically stating that Howard “might care to read Robert Hughes rather than the opinion polls” to “comprehend how we might deal with our history”. Bandler was an unwavering campaigner for equal rights in the 1960s, and was integral in making the 1967 Referendum a memorable success. She reminisces on how she and other activists had “lived, breathed, struggled... climbed”, where the cumulative listing emphasizes the hardships that Aborigines had to endure, as well as