AC9HH10K13
Year 10
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH10K13 | Year 10 History: Building modern Australia
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the continuing efforts to create change in the civil rights and freedoms in Australia, for First Nations Australians, migrants and women
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 identifying areas such as education, health care, housing and employment that are the focus for continued civil rights action for First Nations Australians, and discussing why there continues to be a need for such action
- • Elaboration examining the changes in women’s rights in 20th- and 21st-century Australia, ranging from suffrage to election to state and commonwealth parliaments, employment law, reproductive rights, access to public places like hotels, and protections against domestic and family violence
- • Elaboration investigating the changes in government policy in relation to migrants and how these policies have reflected and impacted on Australia’s changing place in the world; for example, the Racial Discrimination Act 1975
- • Elaboration examining the ideas in and Australia’s responsibilities as a signatory to the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) (2007) and discussing how it influences calls for recognising the rights of First Nations Australians and First Peoples in other countries
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- By the end of Year 10, students explain the historical significance of the period between 1918 and the early 21st century.See it on the standard page →
- Students explain the role of significant ideas, individuals, groups and institutions connected to the developments of this period and their influences on Australian and global history.See it on the standard page →