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The Road from Coorain & Australia
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Short sentences
for dramatic effect
All had taken Shelter
We watched helplessly
I called my mother
vast
mounting
swiftly
hurled
venture
seared
sweltering
metaphors & images
The Road from Coorain
Unusual vocabulary
boiling cloud/ wind
black and sulphurous
yellow at the heart
sweltering afternoon
smash
by Jill Ker Conway
words that have to do
with speed
silenced by dread
the winds seared our land
unendurable tension
dead sheep in every paddock
approaching silently
with great speed
blow away
smash
swiftly
hurled
terrible
boiling out
sweltering afternoon
terifying sight
vast boiling cloud mounting in the sky
writhing cloud
boiling wind
words which create
atmosphere
> 70,000 BCE: Aborigines are thought to have immigrated to Australia
42,000 BCE: Aboriginal engravings are found in South Australia dating back to this time.
35,000 BCE: Aborigines are thought to have reached Tasmania.
2000 BCE: The Dingo is the first domesticated animal to reach Australia.
1300 CE: Marco Polo discusses an great unexplored southern land.
1616 CE: Dirk Hartog, a Dutch explorer, sails to Western Australia.
!688 CE: William Dampier, English explorer, arrives on the west coast of Australia.
1770: Captain James Cook lands on the more hospitable east coast of Australia and claims it for Britain.
1833: Port Arthur opens as a penal settlement in Tasmania.
1851: The gold rush begins near Bathurst in New South Wales.
1853: The last convicts are shipped to Tasmania.
1868: The last convicts are transported to Australia.
1901: The Commonwealth of Australia becomes a reality.
1914-1918: Australian troops fight in World War 1.
1920: QANTAS is formed as a local airline.
1923: Vegemite is first produced.
1927: The first Federal Parliament is held in Canberra.
1939-1945: Australian troops fight in World War 2.
1948: The first all Australian car is produced-the Holden.
1956: Melbourne hosts the Olympics.
1965: Australian troops sent to the Vietnam War.
1971: Neville Bonner becomes the first Aboriginal to be a Member of Parliament.
1973: The Sydney Opera House opens.
2000: The Sydney Olympics held.