AC9HH10K08 – Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences: Building modern Australia

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.

Elaborations

• • using sources to analyse the changing attitudes to the arrival of migrants in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
• • analysing the arguments for and against the “White Australia” policy between 1964 and 1973 or the Child Migration scheme 1922–1967
• • discussing the contribution of migration to Australia’s changing identity as a nation; for example, the influence of different cultural and religious groups with the arrival of different waves of migrants, such as those 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
• • discussing the debate over multiculturalism that arose in the 1980s
• • discussing how debates over different aspects of Australia’s immigration and border protection policies have changed over time in light of international events, including consideration of issues such as mandatory detention of asylum seekers, humanitarian migration, business and skilled migration, and temporary protection visas, from the early 1990s to the present day

Achievement Standard This Supports

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