Subject Area: History
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: Australian Studies

This course examines Australia from the earliest moments of the twentieth century to the national Apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008. The long-twentieth century was a period of grand schemes and grand failures, and of intense questioning around notions of identity, place, race and nation. You are introduced to the major issues and events that Australians confronted, their cultural and social lives, and the campaigns, visions and prejudices through which Australians imagined themselves and others. Themes you explore include Australian concepts of nation and identity, the politics of race, ideologies of domesticity, suburbia and the family, the migrant experience, and Australia's place in the region and the world.