AC9HS6K01 Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor significant individuals, events and ideas that led to Australia’s Federation, the Constitution and democratic system of government

Elaborations

• • Elaboration studying Australia’s path to Federation through an examination of key people and events, such as Henry Parkes, Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, George Reid, John Quick, the Tenterfield Oration, the Corowa Conference and the referendums held in the colonies between 1898 and 1900
• • Elaboration exploring how the United States of America’s model of federalism (the Washington system) contributed to the ideas for Andrew Clark’s first draft of the Constitution
• • Elaboration investigating how Australia’s system of law and government has origins in the Magna Carta, the English Civil War and Westminster system and, therefore, why we have a constitutional monarchy and why there was a separation of powers (legislative, executive, judiciary)