AC9HH10K11 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 significant events and methods in the movement for the civil rights of First Nations Australians and the extent to which they contributed to change

Elaborations

• 1 investigating the effects of the US civil rights movement of the 1960’s and its influence on Australia in changing perspectives, beliefs and opinions; for example, outlining the Freedom Rides in the USA, how they inspired civil rights campaigners in Australia and how they became a turning point in the campaign of First Nations Australians for rights and freedoms
• 2

  creating a chronological account of the significant events in the movement for the civil rights of First Nations Australians, including the right to vote federally in 1962, Freedom Rides, the 1967 Referendum, the Tent Embassy, the Mabo decision, prime minister Keating's Redfern Speech, the Bringing Them Home report, the first Sorry Day, the Apology to the Stolen Generations and the Uluru Statement from the Heart

• 3

  explaining how significant events contributed to change; for example, legal changes, especially land rights, as a result of the Pilbara Strike, Palm Island Strike, Wave Hill Walk-Off, the Mabo decision, the Wik decision and the Tent Embassy; political changes as a result of the right to vote federally in 1962 and the 1967 Referendum; social changes as a result of the Freedom Rides; changes to advance Reconciliation as a result of the Redfern Speech, the Bringing Them Home report, the Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody and the Apology to the Stolen Generations

• 4 discussing how Reconciliation is not a single significant event or change, but an ongoing process of truth-telling and healing between First Nations Australians and other Australians
• 5 investigating the Mabo case and the significance of this event’s contribution to understanding of terra nullius and the land rights movement for First Nations Australians

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