AC9HH10K09
Year 10
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH10K09 | Year 10 History: Building modern Australia
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the causes of First Nations Australians' campaigns for rights and freedoms before 1965, such as discriminatory legislation and policies, the 1938 Day of Mourning and the Stolen Generations
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Building modern Australia
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 10 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration investigating the political and societal impacts that contributed to First Nations Australians’ campaigns for rights and freedoms, such as legal status at the Commonwealth and various state/territory levels, segregation and treatment on missions, and the policy of assimilation adopted in 1937 by the Aboriginal Welfare Conference of Commonwealth and State Authorities
- • Elaboration explaining the significance of the 1938 Day of Mourning in the campaigns of First Nations Australians for rights and freedoms, including the significance of 26 January 1938 (150 years since the arrival of the First Fleet) and the national Indigenous rights meeting
- • Elaboration exploring accounts of the past experiences of First Nations Australians who were members of the Stolen Generations and how these experiences influenced the civil rights movement in Australia from the 1960s through to the present day
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