History / Year 10 / Historical Knowledge and Understanding / Overview of the modern world and Australia

• TLF-IDM021690

This extensive web-based resource examines events, people and places of profound significance to the Australian people and their personal, community and national histories. The resource includes a list of 100 'defining moments' identified by historians supported by background information, images, video and links to the ...

• TLF-IDM019451

This is a website about Indigenous experiences of invasion and war during the British invasion, World War I and World War II. The resource is presented in three sections: Introductory information; Story Objects; and Story Education Resources. There are eight story objects that tell the stories of individuals, events and ...

• TLF-IDL9533

Use a timeline to find information about significant events and ideas in the development and evolution of democracy in the world, focusing on Australia. Nominate specific years or scroll from the latest date back to 0 (where events dated BC are listed).

• TLF-IDM006884

In this unit of work students are asked to consider how the National Museum of Australia’s First Australians gallery presents Indigenous cultures and history. The unit includes a number of activities that help students explore the stories and experiences of Australia’s Indigenous peoples.

• TLF-IDM009447

This is an extended sequence of lessons about the influence citizens can exert over government. The lessons focus on three topics: issues important to our class and the local community; the role of interest groups in Australia; and the role of interest groups in key issues in Australian history such as equal voting rights ...

• TLF-IDM021184

This resource (an ‘education pack’) is a sequenced series of teaching/learning activities about the 1967 referendum to amend or repeal sections of the Australian Constitution that discriminated against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Intended for teachers, the 13-page pdf resource focuses mainly on the 40th ...

• TLF-IDM008073

This clip is about the feelings of confusion and denial experienced by Gamilaroi woman Donna Meehan, one of the Stolen Generations, as she lived and worked with her adoptive white parents in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Meehan explains what it was like being the only Aboriginal person in her school, church and family ...

• TLF-IDL9817

Interact with a slideshow of images and text to examine the ways in which women campaigned for the right to vote in Australia. Investigate the library to find out more about the issues which women saw as significant in this campaign. Identify the women who were at the forefront of this campaign and how they conducted it. ...

• TLF-IDM002511

This is a monochrome oil painting by Charles Nuttall, depicting the opening of the first Commonwealth Parliament in the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, on 9 May 1901. The painting is 226 cm high x 405 cm wide, and it has a carved wooden frame with a leaf pattern.

• TLF-IDR10636

This is a black-and-white group photograph showing the 13 colonial delegates to the Australasian Federation Conference and the Secretary to the Conference. The photograph was taken outside at Parliament House in Melbourne before or after one of the sessions of the Conference held between 6 and 14 February 1890, and shows ...