AC9HH9K02 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor the key social, cultural, economic and political changes and their significance in the development of Australian society during the period

Elaborations

• • Elaboration examining the different contexts of the Australian colonies and explaining their influences; for example, analysing and evaluating the effects of physical isolation on the development of the Swan River Colony in Western Australia, the deliberate exclusion of convicts in the colonisation of South Australia, the discovery of gold on the development of Victoria, and the expansion across the Blue Mountains in New South Wales
• • Elaboration examining the development of Australia’s economy from the early days of settlement up to the First World War, in particular agricultural and pastoral industries, and the key role played by the “squattocracy” and figures such as Elizabeth Macarthur