Text summary: 'The Redfern Speech' is a speech given to a crowd of mainly indigenous Australians at the official opening of the International Year of the World's Indigenous People. United Nations Peoples in Redfern Park, New South Wales. This text addresses many of the challenges that indigenous Australians have faced over time, prompting the audience to ask: "How would I feel?" Throughout the text, Keating challenges views of history over time, outlines some of the outrageous crimes committed against the Indigenous community, and praises Indigenous people for their contributions to our nation, despite how they have been treated. text explores the development of belonging through connections with people, places, groups, communities or the wider world?'The Redfern Address' is a text that explores the development of belonging through connections with people and communities. Throughout the text Keating connects with people on a personal level through his choice of words and tone. This connection with his audience allows him to further develop belonging and evoke a greater emotional response in his audience. This choice of words and tone can be seen in the lines: “We have taken the traditional lands and destroyed the traditional way of life. We brought diseases. Alcohol. We committed the murders. We have practiced discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice." These lines exemplify Keating's constant reference to the non-indigenous group as "we" and "us", this, coupled with the accusatory tone present throughout this section of the text, ensures that the blame be attributed. on the white Australians of the population. The word choice and the tone in... in the center of the paper... stralians, which Keating sees as key to developing belonging the possibilities of belonging or to exclude you from the connection with the world it represents? “The Redfern Address” by Paul Keating is a text that allows interviewees to explore and understand the possibilities of belonging Indigenous people to explore and understand the possibility of not belonging. This is communicated through the constant use of personal pronouns, for example “we” or “us”, to address the entire text to non-Indigenous Australians like Keating. The lines: “As I said, it might help if we… we can imagine it's the opposite” to use perspective to put non-Indigenous Australians in the shoes of Indigenous Australians, to help them explore and understand the possibilities of non-Indigenous membership.