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[Jaguar33]

Can someone please explain this Question?? Stuck on understanding it
“Explore how time and place are used in the prescribed speeches to shape the audience’s understanding of how knowledge of the past sheds light on the present”

 

[Evertone]

The question focuses on context. My interpretation is this:

"Explore how time and place are used in the prescribed speeches"

1) Find points in the speeches where the person speaks about their views on the world they live in and how they relate the events occurring around them to the past - e.g. Keating might speak of past injustices and then inform the audience what effect this has on the present, i.e. an educational or economic 'gap' between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians because of the injustices done in the past...

"to shape the audience’s understanding of how knowledge of the past sheds light on the present"

2) How these references to the past make our awareness of our current situation more clearer.