2017 Folio Task 2:
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What assessment task are we working towards?You will write an informed opinion piece on what effects the closure of Holden's Elizabeth factory may have on Adelaide's north.
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1) Starting point: Contrasting optimism of the past with stereotypes of our area today
Elizabeth: A Place to Grow (SA Housing Trust 1960)
Source: City of Playford Heritage Service (this version hosted on YouTube)
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Memes collected from Facebook (2014-16)
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Elizabeth was a planned city, established after World War II. However, by the 1990s, Elizabeth had become one of the most disadvantaged areas in not only South Australia, but the nation. Historian Mark Peel grew up in Elizabeth and in Good Times, Hard Times: The past and the future in Elizabeth (Melbourne UP 1995) he argued that:
There is no doubt that Elizabeth is disadvantaged, relative to most of Adelaide. But its disadvantage is new, the poverty of postwar suburbs savaged by restructuring and recession. This is a place MADE poor, a place for the people who live along the bad edge of a changing Australia. (p. 1)
2) Refresher: The relative poverty cycle
This video, produced for Anti-Poverty Week 2014, provides three perspectives on some of the current issues relating to poverty in northern Adelaide. Can you identify elements of the relative poverty cycle that we learned about during Folio task 1?
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The Reality of Poverty in Nothern Adelaide
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3) The Power to Break the Cycle: The 4 power model
In class you will undertake an activity to become familiar with the Brotherhood of St Laurence's 4 Power Model: "The model identifies resources, information, relationships and decision making as vital for individuals and groups to access and maintain power over their lives". You should be seeking to apply this theory, along with the relative poverty cycle, in your assignment.
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RESOURCES
INFORMATION
DECISION MAKING
RELATIONSHIPS
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Source: Barbara Reinfeld, Australia Fair: Teaching and Learning for a more socially just Australia, DETE 1999.
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4) "A changing Australia": Holden to cease manufacturing in Australia
Click on the image below to read this visual summary of the end of car manufacturing in Australia by SBS:
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On 11 December 2013, Holden general manager Mike Devereux announced that the company would stop manufacturing cars in Australia, with the Elizabeth factory to close in 2017. This is predicted to have a major effect on the economy of northern Adelaide, with the impact felt not only by Holden employees, but also associated suppliers and a "ripple effect" in the broader community.
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