AC9HC10K03 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

the role of the parliament and the High Court of Australia in protecting rights under the Constitution, common law, and through federal and state statute law

Elaborations

• 1 explaining the role of the High Court in interpreting and applying the law, using contemporary Australian examples
• 2 exploring the concepts of express and implied rights through High Court cases such as the Stolen Generations Case (Kruger v the Commonwealth [1997]) and the Vicki Lee Roach Case (Roach v Electoral Commissioner [2007])
• 3

  investigating understanding of terra nullius and how the Native Title Act 1993 property rights were developed through High Court interpretation of common law and enshrined in statutory law

• 4 comparing the effectiveness of a constitutional bill of rights, such as in the USA, with a statutory bill of rights, such as in New Zealand

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