Faith_Bandler

Speech |Faith Bandler – ‘Faith, Hope and Reconciliation’ | | |Context |‘Talkin’ It Up’ Reconciliation Conference, Wollongong, 1999 | | |Co-founded the Aboriginal Australian Fellowship | | |Civil Rights Activist who campaigns against social and political inequality and Indigenous injustice and disadvantage. | | |Founding member of Women’s Electoral Lobby | | |Bandler 79 years old – 50 years of political activism | | |Amidst crisis of stolen generation | |Purpose |To maintain activism for the long term to seek true reconciliation as she believed the reconciliation movement had slowed down since 1967. | |Audience |Audience at the 1999 conference in Wollongong | | |Those interested in indigenous issues, issues of social justice, peace and equality in later years as the speech endures past its original context. | | |Students that study this speech | |Textual Integrity Words |Resounds, endures, sustains, well-crafted, unity, egalitarianism, creativity, universal, value, importance, ability, relevance, inequality, worth, constancy, continued | |Content -> Concepts |Peace, social and political inequality, injustice, reconciliation, hope, | |Construction |Shift of register as informal opening adjusts to a more formal approach. Formal approach encounters an acknowledgement and thanks. Middle phase expresses obstructions to reconciliation | | |and achievements to date. Also shows anecdotes to appeal to the audience. The final phase shows a need for discussion and a challenge and that the key to reconciliation is a unified | | |peoples movement, ‘If not now, when' If not us, who'’ | |Rhetorical Features |Personal anecdotes – ‘I was here once before’ |Metaphor – ‘close their eyes to the past’ | | |Cliché – ‘it can move mountains’ |Alliteration – ‘bear the brunt’ | | |Anaphora – ‘it is about’ |Repetition – ‘millions who are’ | | |Rhetorical question – ‘why is it so hard to find our commonalities'’ |Colloquial language – ‘there’s a fair bit to do about it’ | | |Anecdotes – Ken Brindle, Jean Jimmy |Paradox/ irony – ‘willingly blind’ | | |Accumulation – ‘lived, breathed, struggled’ |Inclusive Language – ‘if not us, who'’ | |Memorable ideas are revealed through the skilful manipulation of the rhetorical techniques and the context in which the speech was delivered in. Well-crafted speeches have the ability to transcend their original | |context if they have an enduring impact on the audience and have universal themes such as equality and peace. Faith Bandler’s skilfully constructed ‘Faith, Hope and Reconciliation’ has this ability as it constantly| |engages with the audience allowing for a greater significance. Bandler hopes to inspire and therefore maintain activism in regards to the reconciliation movement through establishing the shared responsibility and | |the need for unity. Bandler’s rhetoric is characterised by the language of reconciliation in which she uses inclusive language to inspire unity through asking the universally rhetoric question ‘Why is it so hard to| |find our commonalities'’ The emotive visual imagery of ‘lived, breathed, struggled and climbed’ reveals vivid memorable ideas as it emphasises the consistent effort involved in reconciling and alludes to the | |‘rampart’ path ahead in which to gain reconciliation and equality. These rhetorical techniques are fashioned by Bandler to appeal to her audience’s logic as well as their emotions as they strive to maintain a sense| |of optimism and agency. Bandler successfully has a resounding impact on her original audience and shaped their understanding allowing them to share similar values therefore having the ability to ‘move mountains’. | |Driven by context, content and purpose utilise the power of rhetoric to skilfully craft an enduring speech which reveal memorable ideas. |