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• TLF-IDM024870
• Learning areasHumanities and social sciences; History; Mathematics
• Year levels 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
• Updated30/04/2026

This interactive slideshow from the Royal Australian Mint provides a series of high resolution images and brief descriptions of currencies from Indigenous barter systems to modern Australian currency. A downloadable fact sheet on Australian coin history is accessible from selected pages within the slideshow.

• TLF-IDM025832
• Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; Civics and Citizenship; History
• Year levels 6; 7; 8; 9
• Updated30/04/2026
• AC version 8
• AC version 9

This interactive timeline explores key milestones in the history of Australia's Parliament that led to federation and how the work of Parliament has influenced Australian democratic development since 1901. The timeline allows users to explore the milestones chronologically or follow thematic trails.

• TLF-IDM021690
• Learning areasHumanities and social sciences; History
• Year levels 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10
• Updated30/04/2026
• AC version 8
• AC version 9

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-IDA004906
• Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences
• Year levels 3; 4; 5; 6
• Updated29/04/2026
• AC version 8
• AC version 9

This podcast episode features Professor Anna Clark and Professor Clare Wright discussing questions related to professional practice in terms of teaching history. How can kids in primary school work with history’s complexity? How can primary students consider the moral lessons of what they're learning? How do you encourage ...

• TLF-IDM016182
• Learning areasHumanities and social sciences
• Year levels 3; 4
• Updated30/04/2026

This resource is an overview of the HM Bark Endeavour-a replica of the ship commanded by Lieutenant James Cook in his first voyage of discovery. Students may find it useful for studying European exploration and colonisation in Australia. Contains panoramas, image galleries and learning activities with audio narration.

• TLF-IDM012679
• Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
• Year levels 9; 10
• Updated29/04/2026
• AC version 8
• AC version 9

This is a 26-page fact sheet that provides a comprehensive overview of migration to Australia from the first arrival of humans to 2006. It includes details about the major waves of international and internal migration, key events and policies, and individuals and groups that have made significant contributions to the development ...

• TLF-IDM016313
• Learning areasEnglish; Humanities and social sciences; History
• Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
• Updated30/04/2026

This resource is a page with web links to interviews, articles and book reviews. PDF

• TLF-IDM016503
• Learning areasEnglish; Humanities and social sciences; History
• Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
• Updated25/10/2023

In this resource Thomas Keneally addresses the issue of fictionalising history and the difference between novels and histories.

• TLF-IDM016455
• Learning areasEnglish; Humanities and social sciences; History
• Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
• Updated30/04/2026

In this resource Thomas Keneally speaks about telling the history of Australia using the journeys of people who lived it.

• TLF-IDM020011
• Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
• Year levels 6
• Updated30/04/2026
• AC version 8
• AC version 9

A constitution is a set of rules that describe how a country should be run. What does the Australian Constitution contain rules about? When was it mostly written? This two-minute video introduces the Constitution to students using the game of basketball as a metaphor.