AC9HH9K07
Year 9
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH9K07 – Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences: Making and transforming the Australian nation (1750–1914)
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Making and transforming the Australian nation (1750–1914)
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.
Content Description
the development of Australian society in relation to other nations in the world by 1914, including the effects of ideas and movements of people
Elaborations
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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
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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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