AC9HC9K02 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HC9K02 | Year 9 Civics and Citizenship: Government and democracy

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor the legislative processes through which federal government policy is shaped, developed and implemented

Strand

Knowledge and understanding

Substrand

Government and democracy

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 9 Civics and Citizenship. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

• Elaboration locating the areas of federal government responsibility as outlined in the Constitution and methods for resolving conflicts over federal/state/territory responsibilities
• Elaboration charting the process of development of a policy from initial idea to enacted legislation
• Elaboration using a specific federal policy to understand and analyse the influences on policy formulation and implementation, such as political parties, interest groups, citizens, international influences and the public service

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