Nuggets Brush with Death It was Anzac day in 2017‚ and we just arrived home from marching in the Anzac parade in Albany. My Nan was outside and my Mum was inside when all of a sudden my Nan started yelling “snake‚ Jodie help‚ snake”. My mum ran outside to where my Nan and our dog Nugget were‚ she saw a tiger snake rearing up at Nugget and striking him on the face. Nugget grabbed the snake through it up in the air‚ as the snake hit the ground it bit Nugget again. Mum and Nan were both yelling at
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contrast the experiences of Australian soldiers at Gallipoli and Kokoda Just the words Gallipoli and Kokoda evoke such vivid imagery in our minds of war‚ hardship and struggle. Australia’s involvement in Gallipoli suggests a sense of mate ship‚an Anzac legend‚ created out of total confusion. Kokoda however calls to mind a war of ideologies and of survival. But both events have their similarities and differences - how and why they started‚ troop experiences and how they ended and what and why we
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History Summary Notes – Semester 2‚ 2012 Australia to 1914 * How people lived at the turn of the C20th * Housing * Lower Class Housing * Unsanitary‚ overcrowded‚ dangerous (poorly built‚ cheap materials) * Many didn’t have sewerages or standard water supplies * Bad ventilation and poor lighting * Upper Class Housing * Lived in the eastern suburbs/north shore * Employed maids and servants * Houses were old‚ not built securely‚ no heat
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every Australian has some knowledge of the Gallipoli campaign. It is taught in high school history courses‚ and stories about ANZAC abound in the popular press every 25 April. Many members of the public‚ however‚ would be unaware of the sheer volume of material that has been published about Gallipoli. Some material deals with a specific aspect of the campaign: the first day‚ for example‚ a particular battle‚ or the forces of one country. Other works discuss the campaign as a whole or incorporate the
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months during the 1941 North African Campaign in World War 2 showed the positive qualities of the ANZAC legend and played a role in making Australia the independent country it is today. The campaign started with the Italian declaration of war on June 1940. The Australian soldiers of the 9th division aligned forces with the United States and Britain to fight in Tobruk‚ Libyan coast. One of the ANZAC qualities‚ show in this campaign‚ was the bravery the Australian soldiers demonstrated when facing
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Disease was just as much a threat to the troops as the enemy they were fighting. The combination of poor nutrition‚ poor living conditions and lack of rest weakened the sodiers. By late July‚ hundreds of tired and poorly fed men were becoming sick each day‚ though many refused to be taken away from the war and wanted to stay at the trenches and fight. The sodiers had to live in poor condition and had to eat infected food‚ weakening the soldiers. The lessons learned during the Gallipoli campaign was to
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Albert Jacka Albert Jacka was born on the 10th of January 1893 in a small dairy farm in Winchelsea‚ Victoria. On the 17th of the first 1932‚ seven days after his 39th birthday‚ he died of chronic nephritis. He was the fourth child of 7 of Nathaniel Jacka and Mary Elizabeth Kettle. He spent most of his life in Wedderburn after his parents decided to move the family there in 1898 when Bertie was the age of 5. After completing elementary school‚ he found work as a labourer with his father‚ and
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inexperienced and excited school boy became Australia’s youngest Anzac. The main theme of Soldier Boy is about the life of war. The story starts with the death of Jim aboard a hospital ship. It explains how he dies and the way the family were notified by the nurse sending a letter to them. Then his story starts from the beginning reflecting on the early part of his life in the country. The families move to Melbourne and Jim’s school days particularly his time in the school cadets. The cadets were
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http://www.gallipoli.net.au/thenek.html Gallipoli - peter weir - final scene 2008‚ retrieved 1st of April 2012‚ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7thAi2kSyc Charge at the Nek 2008‚ retrieved 1st of April 2012‚ www.awm.gov.au/units/event_133.asp The Anzac walk 2010‚ retrieved 1st of April 2012‚ www.anzacsite.gov.au/2visiting/walk_12nek.html Charge of the light horse at Nek 2006‚ retrieved 3rd of April 2012‚ http://www.lighthorse.org.au/famous-battles/world-war-one/famous-battles-charge-of-the-3rd-light-horse-at-the-nek
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down so easily in half a minute by the rows of the machine guns shooting everyone of the Soldiers in sight. Same goes for the following wave of soldiers charging towards the turks. Continuing the horror of dead piles of bodies near the lip of the ANZAC trenches. By the of 4.45am the 10th light horse charged to their inevitable death. One of them was Wilfred Harper‚ an Olympian sprinter charging towards the enemy. Harpers death was an inspiration for Peter Weir’s film. The film depicts a British
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