AC9HC8K03 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 characteristics of laws and how laws are made in Australia through parliaments (statutory law) and through the courts (common law)

Elaborations

• 1 exploring the characteristics of laws, such as reflecting society’s values; being enforceable; being known, clear and understood; and being relatively stable
• 2 understanding how governments can introduce new rules and regulations without parliament voting on them (for example, delegated or subordinate legislation is not made directly by an Act of parliament, but under the authority of an Act of parliament)
• 3 questioning whether laws are affected by different cultural or social perspectives, such as those of First Nations Australians
• 4 identifying the 2 chief sources of law (parliament and the courts) and analysing a case study of statute and common law
• 5 examining the relationship between parliament and the courts

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