Text Summary: "The Redfern Speech" is a speech delivered to a crowd of mainly Indigenous Australians at the official opening of the United Nations International Year for indigenous peoples of the world. Peoples of Redfern Park, New South Wales. This text addresses many of the challenges that Indigenous Australians have faced over time, while also challenging the audience to ask themselves, “How would I feel?” Throughout the text, Keating challenges views of history over time, describes some of the outrageous crimes committed against the Indigenous community, and commends Indigenous people for their contributions to our nation, despite how they have been treated. The text explores the development of belonging through connections to people, places, groups, communities or the world at large? “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 word choice and tone. This connection with his audience allows him to further develop his belonging and elicit a greater emotional response from his audience. This choice of words and tone can be seen in the lines: “We have taken traditional lands and destroyed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. Alcohol. We committed the murders. We practiced discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudices. on white Australians in the population. Word choice and tone middle of paper ......Australians, which Keating sees as key to developing belonging. How does this text help you explore and understand the possibilities of belonging or exclude you from connecting with the world it represents? “The Redfern Address” by Paul Keating is a text that allows speakers to explore and understand the possibilities of belonging. The text specifically aims to help non-Indigenous Australians explore and understand the possibility of not belonging. This is communicated through the consistent use of personal pronouns, for example "we" or "we", to direct the entire text towards non-Indigenous Australians like Keating. The lines: "As I said, it might help if we...we can imagine it's the opposite" using perspective to put non-Indigenous Australians in the shoes of Indigenous Australians, to help them explore and understand the possibilities of non-belonging.