AC9HC8K04 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HC8K04 | Year 8 Civics and Citizenship: Laws and citizens

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor the types of law in Australia, including criminal law and civil law, and the place of First Nations Australian customary law

Strand

Knowledge and understanding

Substrand

Laws and citizens

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 Civics and Citizenship. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

• Elaboration explaining the fundamental difference between criminal law and civil law and their role in the protection of rights and freedoms
• Elaboration distinguishing statutory and common law from executive law (delegated law) and identifying how the houses of parliament can disallow delegated legislation
• Elaboration examining the significance of customary law for First Nations Australians through selected case studies
• Elaboration evaluating the opportunities and limitations of Native Title law for First Nations Australians

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