AC9HH10K07 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.

the effects of significant post–Second World War world events, ideas and developments on Australian society

Elaborations

• 1 analysing the causes and conditions that led to increased migration to Australia and changing public opinion and government policy, such as the publication of the mass murder of the Holocaust or the plight of refugees in war-ravaged Europe
• 2 describing the main features of a government policy that affected migration to Australia, such as the government’s “populate or perish” policy and the “White Australia” policy
• 3 investigating the nature of the waves of migration (for example, from Europe in the 1950s–1960s, from different parts of Asia in the 1970s–2000s, from the Middle East in the 1980s–1990s, from India in the 1990s–2000s or from Africa in the 2000s), the numbers of migrants from those countries since the Second World War and the reasons for those migrations, including push factors such as the effects of war, economic downturns or social upheaval, and pull factors such as Australia’s peaceful democracy and economic and educational opportunities

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