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Page 1: What was life like for Australians around the turn of the century?

What was life like for Australians

around the turn of the century?

Page 2: What was life like for Australians around the turn of the century?

You will LEARN ABOUT

how people lived in Australia around the turn of the century

You will LEARN TO

• use primary sources to describe features of lifestyle of a variety of social groups

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How much do you know?• About how many people were

living in Australia in 1901?• a) 1 million b) 4 million c) 10 million d) 15 million

• Most people in Australia lived• a) In the cities b) in the country c) ½ in the city, ½ in the

country

• Australians mainly travelled by• a) cars b) train c) bicycle d) tram e) horse & carriage

• Most Australians enjoyed• a) playing cricket b) playing football c) watching sport

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Bankstown - 1922

SOURCE STUDY 1 City Life - Suburbs

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Where Did Australians Live?

• About 50% of people lived in the city and 50% in the country – on farms, sheep and cattle stations, mining communities and country towns

• Australia was one of the most urbanised countries at this time

• 2/3 of the population lived in NSW and VIC

• 500,000 lived in Melbourne and the same in Sydney

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Houses

• Houses were small and simple. Many had water tanks connected to them and some had furnishings outside.

• Most houses would consist of a chimney and would have a fence circulating around it.

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Transport

• Most people rode horses or horses and carriages.

• They walked from place to place.• They rode camels.

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Clothes and Accessories

• People usually wore clothes that were long.• Most of the clothes consisted of high necklines.• Wore closed shoes: 1 or 2 pairs of only• All the dresses had long sleeves. • They often wore protective clothing to keep

clean (aprons, dust coats)• They used handkerchiefs (not tissues)• Hats were worn by both men and women but

men took theirs off when they went inside

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Activities

Most of the woman sewed and knittedSome of them played the pianoThey travelled on camelsThey attended churchPlayed board gamesSing-a-longsPicnicsWatching sport such as cricket and footballRiding bicycles

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Life in the Cities•There was a variety of living

conditions and homes in the cities•poorer suburbs close to factories

with their small often substandard houses

•Terrace houses with a small backyard for middle class families

•“Federation” style free standing houses with a large block for the more wealthy

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Terrace houses in

Darlinghurst

City Life - Houses

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• Federation was a very decorative style.

• Tall, steep and varied roof shapes

• Rooms had irregular shapes with nooks and splayed corners

• Built mostly of red brick

• Porches or verandahs have ornamental painted woodwork.

• Colourful leadlight windows

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FURNITUREBlouse Chest

Dressing Table

Commode Chair

Day Bed Double Bed Dining Suite

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Pyrmont Bridge was completed in 1902 so that traffic could get to the Queen Victoria Markets.

SOURCE STUDY 2 City Life - Transport

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SOURCE STUDY 3Leisure A

A visit to Manly Beach

Snake charmer at La Peruse – a popular tourist spot Swimming BathsMovie Poster

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SOURCE STUDY 2Leisure B

Family Picnics

Sing-a-longs

Opening of Killara Golf Course

Age, Melbourne, 21 March 1904

The aspect of the Yarra was transformed on Saturday afternoon, when the first Melbourne amateur regatta - the Australian Henley – was most auspiciously inaugurated. Vast crowds assembled on the river banks, and Princes bridge, which gave a commanding view of the course, black with people….

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Popular Parlor Games, Pastimes and Amusements:

Book ReadingCard Games (Whist, Bridge, etc.)CharadesCheckersChessDiceDominosHand Shadows

Jacks and MarblesLace MakingMusical Instrument PlayingPaper DollsParcheesiPhotographySewing Tea Leaf Fortune Reading

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SOURCE STUDY 3Transport

Redfern Railway - 1900

Trams & Buggies - Enmore Rd

Man’s bicycle - 1900

Woman’s bicycle - 1910

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SOURCE STUDY 4Clothing

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SOURCE STUDY 5Kitchen/Food

Egg scales

Kitchen Scales

Charcoal Burning Stove

Kitchen Canisters

Butter Churn & Cooking Pot

Advertisement

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SOURCE STUDY 6

Health and Medicine

Lewisham Hospital c.1905

Medicine Box

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How Healthy was Life in Australia in 1900?• Plague – 458 cases and 165 people

died in 1900

• Deaths – Sydney had 607 cases and 197 deaths in total 1900 – 1925

• Queensland had the most deaths – 276 people died from the plague

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SOURCE STUDY 10Aboriginal People

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SOURCE STUDY 11Children - School

Empire Day Celebrations at Gordon PS

Gardening Lesson

Students of Menai PS

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END OF PRESENTATION


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