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Democracy in Australia: PART 1

PART 1

Choose SIX significant people from the list. TWO of the people must come from LIST A; TWO from LIST B; and TWO from LIST C.

You will need to include:
(i) their name
(ii) year of birth and death (not for those still alive)
(iii) information about their family and where they grew up
(iv) detailed information about their adult life
(v) detailed overview of their contribution to Australian democracy, and the significance of their contribution. What changes were made? What was done differently? What was new? This needs to be the most detailed part of your research.
(vi) a bibliography of your sources made using the SLASA online referencing generator is present (choose the Middle School option)

You will produce a persuasive piece of writing which ranks these six people in order of the importance of their contribution to Australian democracy. You will need to justify why you have ranked them in the order you have chosen.

LIST A - before Federation

William Bligh

Raffaello Carboni

Andrew Inglis Clark

Jandamarra

Peter Lalor

John Macarthur

Lachlan Macquarie

Sir Henry Parkes

William Charles Wentworth

LIST B - Politicians & Governors-General

Edmund Barton

Neville Bonnor

Dame Quentin Bryce

Edith Cowan

Herbert Vere Evatt

Sir Philip Game

Julia Gillard

Dame Margaret Guilfoyle

Bob Hawke

Billy Hughes

Sir Isaac Isaacs

Paul Keating

Sir John Kerr

Dame Enid Lyons

Sir Robert Menzies

Dame Annabelle Rankin

Kevin Rudd

Dame Dorothy Tangney

Gough Whitlam

LIST C - the Activists

Zelda d'Aprano

Henrietta Dugdale

Ada Evans

Vida Goldstein

Louisa Lawson

Vincent Lingiari

Annie Lowe

Edward Koiki Mabo

Charles Perkins

Catherine Helen Spence