AC9HH9K04 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

significant events, ideas, people, groups and movements in the development of Australian society

Elaborations

• 1 discussing the rise of nationalist sentiment in Australia in the mid- to late 19th century
• 2 explaining the factors that contributed to Federation and the development of democracy in Australia, such as defence concerns, economic concerns and the 1890s depression, the “White Australia" ideal, nationalist ideals and egalitarianism
• 3

  describing the key steps to Federation, such as the Australasian Federation Conference (1890), the first Federal Constitutional Convention (1891), the second Federal Constitutional Convention (1897–1898), the first referendum on the Federal Constitution (1898), the second referendum on the Federal Constitution (1899), the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (1900) and Federation Day (1 January 1901)

• 4 examining the influences on the development of the Australian Constitution, such as the British Westminster system, the Washington system and federalism
• 5

  analysing the significance of the advance of women’s voting rights to the development of Australian democracy, including the suffragist movements, the Christian Women's Temperance Union and the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902

• 6

  investigating key people and groups involved in the Federation movement and the development of an Australian identity, such as Sir Henry Parkes, Sir Samuel Griffith, William Guthrie Spence, John Feltham Archibald, Catherine Helen Spence, Alfred Deakin, Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin, Arthur Streeton, Joseph Furphy, Barbara Baynton, Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, “Federation leagues”, the Australian Natives Association and The Bulletin

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