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Counted: Examining Australia's Constitution

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Counted: Examining Australia's Constitution

SUBJECTS:  Civics and Citizenship, History

YEARS:  5–6, 9–10


Reporter Stan Grant visits the National Archives of Australia to revisit the moment when Australia became a federation, on 1 January 1901.

Stan examines the original Australian Constitution and reads out Section 127. What does it say?

To try to understand why Indigenous people were so excluded, Stan considers the language and attitudes of the day, including those expressed by Australia's second Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin.

How would you describe these views? How does Marcia Langton describe them?



Date of broadcast: 26 May 2017


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