Description
The 2024 Issues Pack contains background material, 6-7 written opinion pieces and 3-4 transcripts and links to persuasive AV texts for each of the ten current issues listed below. When an AV text is a Tik Tok video, the resource also includes a download of the Tik Tok video to avoid issues of being unable to access Tik Tok. The issues are divided into four broad issues categories:
Equality and discrimination issues:
1. Antoinette Lattouf sacking from ABC
2. Sam Kerr racist slur
3. Gender pay gap
Economic issues:
(3) Gender pay gap
4. Demise of music festivals
Public health issues:
5. Pill testing at music festivals
6. Enforcing new vape laws
7. Safe injecting rooms
Environmental issues:
8. Nuclear vs. renewables
9. SUVs & Truckzillas
10. Westgate Bridge climate change protest
