AC9HH10K09 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 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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 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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