AC9HC10K04 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.

how Australia’s international legal obligations shape Australian law and government policies, including those relating to First Nations Australians, and the issues related to the application of these obligations

Elaborations

• 1 investigating how many of the 9 key human rights treaties Australia has signed and ratified, and researching how at least one of these has shaped Australian law or government policy
• 2 explaining how international conventions and declarations, such as the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, have shaped Australian government law and policies with regards to First Nations Australians
• 3 analysing Australia’s legal obligations to the environment under the Paris Agreement (2016) and the World Heritage Convention (1972), and/or to refugees under the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) and its optional protocol (1967)

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