AC9HS6K07 Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 6 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.

the roles and responsibilities of the 3 levels of government in Australia

Elaborations

• 1 sorting and categorising the roles and responsibilities of the 3 levels of government (local, state/territory and federal)
• 2 identifying issues where federal and state parliaments both have the power to make laws, and recognising that federal law will override the state law if federal and state laws conflict on these issues
• 3 investigating the origins of new laws; for example, from party policy, perhaps announced during an election campaign; from suggestions by members and senators; from interest groups in the community
• 4 identifying instances where there may be multiple levels of government involved; for example, in relation to the environment such as management of the Murray–Darling river system
• 5 categorising the different types of laws and regulations in their community, which level of government makes those laws, and who enforces them; for example, road laws, health laws, pollution laws

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