Propaganda Australian propaganda was designed to maintain public anger about German atrocities and idealise Australian soldiers. Germany’s invasion of Belgium meant that German forces were easily portrayed as the aggressors in the conflict. inhuman and monstrous. One month after the landing at Gallipoli, the English passenger ship RMS Lusitania - a ship almost the size of the Titanic - was sunk by German submarines. 1,198 passengers and crew were killed. motif in Allied propaganda. Norman Lindsay, artist and author of the much-loved children’s book The Magic Pudding, created some of the most striking Australian propaganda. Propaganda also marks journalism at the time. bias in their accounts of Allied actions. Deliberately or otherwise, in the age of mass literacy, the lies, exaggerations and errors of the battlefield were turned into official communiqués and elaborated upon in correspondents’ dispatches. Williams, J F 1999, Anzacs, the media and the great war, UNSW Press, Sydney, NSW Victoria Cross
Curriculum connections - Vrroom Australian History The collection of records in Vrroom offers a window into key events and significant themes of 20th-century Australian History – events such as the birth of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 and themes relating to people, power and politics, immigration,national identity and environmental issues. In 2012 Vrroom is linking grouped primary sources with the Australian Curriculum: History. See Traversing Antarctica, the Australian experience. Vrroom can help teachers and students find archival records relating to nine broad research topics. Civics and Citizenship Vrroom is an excellent resource for secondary students studying Civics and Citizenship. What is citizenship? To study Civics and Citizenship, you might look at governance processes: You might explore government policy, for example: Or you might examine how the public interacts with the government: You could also explore Civics and Citizenship through topics such as: English Some records advance an argument: Science
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