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the continuing efforts to create change in the civil rights and freedoms in Australia, for First Nations Australians, migrants and women (AC9HH10K13)

Elaborations
  • identifying areas such as education, health care, housing and employment that are the focus for continued civil rights action for First Nations Australians, and discussing why there continues to be a need for such action
  • examining the changes in women’s rights in 20th- and 21st-century Australia, ranging from suffrage to election to state and commonwealth parliaments, employment law, reproductive rights, access to public places like hotels, and protections against domestic and family violence

  • investigating the changes in government policy in relation to migrants and how these policies have reflected and impacted on Australia’s changing place in the world; for example, the Racial Discrimination Act 1975

  • examining the ideas in and Australia’s responsibilities as a signatory to the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) (2007) and discussing how it influences calls for recognising the rights of First Nations Australians and First Peoples in other countries
General capabilities
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms

Human rights,  International law,  International relations,  Treaties,  Social equality

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