AC9HH9K07
Year 9
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH9K07 | Year 9 History: Making and transforming the Australian nation (1750–1914)
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the development of Australian society in relation to other nations in the world by 1914, including the effects of ideas and movements of people
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Making and transforming the Australian nation (1750–1914)
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 9 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration investigating how the major social legislation of the new Federal Government affected living and working conditions in Australia; for example, the Harvester Judgment, the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, invalid and old-age pensions, the maternity allowance scheme and the Defence Act 1903
- • Elaboration explaining the continuities and changes in the role of women, such as advocating for women’s rights, suffrage, political representation and pacificism; (for example, Elizabeth Macquarie, Caroline Chisholm, Catherine Helen Spence, Louisa Lawson, Muriel Matters, Vida Goldstein)
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