Project Australia By Hugh Mackay
Expository texts are designed to present information that encourages us to accept a particular point of view. Normally this information is often fresh and exhilarating, challenging us to analyze aspects of the world in different ways. Advance Australia Where…..? By Hugh Mackay is an expository text which significantly analyses the idea of the renovations that Australia is currently undergoing through the younger generation. An abundant of ideas presented has led me to reject many of his views He presents these ideas throughout the book and in the chapter “Project Australia”. This is achieved through the effective use of techniques of construction such as the use of authority figure, selection of detail and language.
The chapter “Project Australia” uses authoritarian figures to help persuade viewers to believe Hugh MacKay’s ideology that generation y is destroying the future of Australia. Mackay talks about many aspects of the changes …show more content…
in Australia such as religion, generation, families and technology. He authenticates these aspects with official reports such as “ The Sydney morning herald” and the IPSOS MacKay report Living with debt 2007, gives a sense of trust towards his viewers. However many of these reports are produced and collected from Hugh Mackay himself so the information presented maybe controversial. I believe that the reports that Hugh Mackay shown in the text is not unreliable as it has come from trustworthy resource, however biased. This can be seen as the Ipsos report found that “young adults between those who still aspire to home ownership among those who neither want nor afford to own their own homes.” shows that his reports are only showing how “young adults” are undedicated and unintelligent. Hugh Mackay has used a broad range of authoritarian figures to assist the readers that generation y is a cause of conflict.
Selection of detailed used in “Project Australia” has emphasized many of the negative changes that has occurred in the past decade. This was due to MacKay’s arrogant attitude towards gerenration x and y as he is a baby boomer, exploiting flaws in our way of life. For example “renting is a deliberate lifestyle choice, for others it’s a kind of resignation to the idea of that it’s all too hard” expresses his feelings towards our current generation that we are lazy and taking the easy way out. As I read this I get a resistant reading from this excerpt. The reason I am against this is due to the fact that I am a responsible teenager taking on a parental role of looking after my 5 month old sister. He also says that we have a “lack of connectedness, a surrender to materialism and unbridled selfishness” conveys the idea that “typical Australians” are vulnerable not only to fashion and technology, but also to themselves. This alerted me that Hugh Mackay only targeted pessimistic characteristics of generation y constantly excluding excellent characteristic’s such as new technology, fashion and communication we bring into our society. Mackay has methodically deconstructed and rebuild “generation y” to portray us as villains of this “renovation”
The Language that Hugh Mackay uses is humorous and poetic, conveying the idea of the constant change in the living standards of Australia.
Mackay uses humorous language such as “replacing the previously fashionable exchange of cholesterol reading,” manipulating contemporary readers into believing his ideology through the use of comedy. He also describes the whole change in Australia poetically as a “Renovation”. Comparing the Australian change with a typical bathroom renovation, explaining how “one thing usually leads to another” and how it “creates lots of dust, debris and occasionally some casualties,” really communicating the idea that while Australia is on the way to a new and positive change there will be some detours before reaching the perfect destination. This made me aware that Hugh Mackay is intelligent and highly educated. Even though he may have already persuaded most of the readers with the use of manipulative language, I however will not be influenced by his ideology as he has offended many of the contemporary
readers.
Advance Australia where by Hugh MacKay is a controversial expository text in every aspect. He focuses solely on the generation after him and exploits flaws in their generation. This seems to make Hugh Mackay a “generationcist” implying indirectly that he was the best generation. He describes Australia as a slow process in moving along towards the future, but its people like Hugh Mackay that criticizes the younger generation which holds them back from the “renovation”
The chapter “Project Australia” uses authoritarian figures to help persuade viewers to believe Hugh MacKay’s ideology that generation y is destroying the future of Australia. Mackay talks about many aspects of the changes …show more content…
in Australia such as religion, generation, families and technology. He authenticates these aspects with official reports such as “ The Sydney morning herald” and the IPSOS MacKay report Living with debt 2007, gives a sense of trust towards his viewers. However many of these reports are produced and collected from Hugh Mackay himself so the information presented maybe controversial. I believe that the reports that Hugh Mackay shown in the text is not unreliable as it has come from trustworthy resource, however biased. This can be seen as the Ipsos report found that “young adults between those who still aspire to home ownership among those who neither want nor afford to own their own homes.” shows that his reports are only showing how “young adults” are undedicated and unintelligent. Hugh Mackay has used a broad range of authoritarian figures to assist the readers that generation y is a cause of conflict.
Selection of detailed used in “Project Australia” has emphasized many of the negative changes that has occurred in the past decade. This was due to MacKay’s arrogant attitude towards gerenration x and y as he is a baby boomer, exploiting flaws in our way of life. For example “renting is a deliberate lifestyle choice, for others it’s a kind of resignation to the idea of that it’s all too hard” expresses his feelings towards our current generation that we are lazy and taking the easy way out. As I read this I get a resistant reading from this excerpt. The reason I am against this is due to the fact that I am a responsible teenager taking on a parental role of looking after my 5 month old sister. He also says that we have a “lack of connectedness, a surrender to materialism and unbridled selfishness” conveys the idea that “typical Australians” are vulnerable not only to fashion and technology, but also to themselves. This alerted me that Hugh Mackay only targeted pessimistic characteristics of generation y constantly excluding excellent characteristic’s such as new technology, fashion and communication we bring into our society. Mackay has methodically deconstructed and rebuild “generation y” to portray us as villains of this “renovation”
The Language that Hugh Mackay uses is humorous and poetic, conveying the idea of the constant change in the living standards of Australia.
Mackay uses humorous language such as “replacing the previously fashionable exchange of cholesterol reading,” manipulating contemporary readers into believing his ideology through the use of comedy. He also describes the whole change in Australia poetically as a “Renovation”. Comparing the Australian change with a typical bathroom renovation, explaining how “one thing usually leads to another” and how it “creates lots of dust, debris and occasionally some casualties,” really communicating the idea that while Australia is on the way to a new and positive change there will be some detours before reaching the perfect destination. This made me aware that Hugh Mackay is intelligent and highly educated. Even though he may have already persuaded most of the readers with the use of manipulative language, I however will not be influenced by his ideology as he has offended many of the contemporary
readers.
Advance Australia where by Hugh MacKay is a controversial expository text in every aspect. He focuses solely on the generation after him and exploits flaws in their generation. This seems to make Hugh Mackay a “generationcist” implying indirectly that he was the best generation. He describes Australia as a slow process in moving along towards the future, but its people like Hugh Mackay that criticizes the younger generation which holds them back from the “renovation”