Project Australia By Hugh Mackay

Expository texts are designed to present information that encourages us to accept a particular point of view. Normally this information is often fresh and exhilarating, challenging us to analyze aspects of the world in different ways. Advance Australia Where…..? By Hugh Mackay is an expository text which significantly analyses the idea of the renovations that Australia is currently undergoing through the younger generation. An abundant of ideas presented has led me to reject many of his views He presents these ideas throughout the book and in the chapter “Project Australia”. This is achieved through the effective use of techniques of construction such as the use of authority figure, selection of detail and language.

The chapter “Project Australia” uses authoritarian figures to help persuade viewers to believe Hugh MacKay’s ideology that generation y is destroying the future of Australia. Mackay talks about many aspects of the changes
Mackay uses humorous language such as “replacing the previously fashionable exchange of cholesterol reading,” manipulating contemporary readers into believing his ideology through the use of comedy. He also describes the whole change in Australia poetically as a “Renovation”. Comparing the Australian change with a typical bathroom renovation, explaining how “one thing usually leads to another” and how it “creates lots of dust, debris and occasionally some casualties,” really communicating the idea that while Australia is on the way to a new and positive change there will be some detours before reaching the perfect destination. This made me aware that Hugh Mackay is intelligent and highly educated. Even though he may have already persuaded most of the readers with the use of manipulative language, I however will not be influenced by his ideology as he has offended many of the contemporary