You are required to complete five short answer critical reviews of the news items provided from week 2 to week 7. An example for week 3 has been provided as a guide. Each short answer critical review...

Assessment Task 2
Short Answer Critical Reviews
You are required to complete five short answer critical reviews of the news items provided from week 2 to week 7. An example for week 3 has been provided as a guide. Each short answer critical review should relate to the news item and required reading for the appropriate week and should consist of around 200 words. The total words for the completed task should not exceed 1000 words.
The recommended structure is:
· The main topic - what is this news article about?
· The speaker’s thesis - what is the public figure’s position on the main topic?
· The author’s argument - what is the author of this week’s required reading’s main point on this topic?
· Evidence and examples provided to support the author’s argument
· Author’s conclusion on the topic.
You are required to include a reference list and cite in the text of the short answer critical reviews the author, year and page numbe
s where your information and ideas come from using the APA (in-text) referencing system
    Week 2 Critical Review
Video: A
ott, T. (2014) Address to the Sydney Institute, 14 November 2014. 
Reading: Gammage, B. (2011). Fire in 1788: The closest ally. Australian Historical Studies 42(2), 277-288. 
Topic Sentence:
In the news article, the author explained about bushfires in Australia. How the aborigines and others survived the big bushfires of Australia in 1788. In addition, the author relates the bushfire to today’s bushfires. The author also relates people’s experience of surviving the fire through Eric Roll’s lectures (A
ott, 2014).
The public figure Eric Rolls spent his life studying the bushes. Moreover, how Australia changed under European occupation. Besides, he illuminated the past and future quite accurately.
Compare & Contrast:
When the aborigines first came across Australia. “They were not only surviving the fires they were preventing them”. The fire is a part of being an Australian (Gammage, 2011). It is not an enemy; it is an ally. Australia’s plant distribution in 1788 was made with using the bushfires. It was not natural. It was man made. Moreover, from that we can understand the ability of the aborigines from 1788 to use fire as they used the bushfires to create the plantation.
Conclusion
We are putting the plant and animal life of Australia towards extinction. People who belonged to old times, the aborigines understood more about biodiversity more than the people of our age did. Therefore, the new age Australian people need to learn from them if we may to survive in these modern cultural challenges.
    Week 4 Critical Review
Video: Mo
ison, S. (2018) On The Australia Day Debate, Sunrise, Channel 7, 24 September 2018.
Reading: Grehan, H. (2018) First Nations Politics in a Climate of Refusal, Performance Research, 23(3), 7-12
Topic Sentence:
The news article by Helena Grehan is about Australian culture, heritage and politics. The article mainly concludes The speech “Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples” and Uluru Statement from The Heart and How Australia reacted for everything.
The public figure Prime Minister Kevin Rudd addressed to the powerlessness and disadvantages of the indigenous Australians and apologised for that. In addition, the government addresses the invitation of Aboriginal and To
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