AC9HC8K02 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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 political parties and independent representatives in Australian democracy, including elections and the formation of governments

Elaborations

• 1 examining the structure and composition of current parliaments, both federal and state/territory
• 2 evaluating different voting systems such as preferential and proportional representation
• 3 understanding how government is formed and may be lost, through discussing concepts such as parliamentary majority, the opposition, hung parliament, minority government, party discipline and balance of power
• 4 investigating the roles of political parties and elected representatives, including independents

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