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History 7-10 / Year 10 / Knowledge and understanding / Building modern Australia
Curriculum content descriptions
the causes of changes in perspectives, responses, beliefs and values on migration that have influenced Australian society since 1945 (AC9HH10K08)
Elaborations
- using sources to analyse the changing attitudes to the arrival of migrants in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
- analysing the arguments for and against the “White Australia” policy between 1964 and 1973 or the Child Migration scheme 1922–1967
- discussing the contribution of migration to Australia’s changing identity as a nation; for example, the influence of different cultural and religious groups with the arrival of different waves of migrants, such as those from Europe in the 1950s–1960s, from different parts of Asia in the 1970s–2000s, from the Middle East in the 1980s–1990s, from India in the 1990s–2000s or from Africa in the 2000s
- discussing the debate over multiculturalism that arose in the 1980s
- discussing how debates over different aspects of Australia’s immigration and border protection policies have changed over time in light of international events, including consideration of issues such as mandatory detention of asylum seekers, humanitarian migration, business and skilled migration, and temporary protection visas, from the early 1990s to the present day
General capabilities
ScOT terms
World War II, Australian history, Prisoners of war