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Making a Nation: changing the Constitution

Learning objects Making a Nation: changing the Constitution

TLF ID M017710

This interactive resource looks at the creation of the Australian Constitution and then explores the process used to change it - referendum. Information on several referendums is presented (1910, 1937, 1967, 1984) but, in a case study, students investigate the 1951 anti-communism referendum in more detail. The seven activities in this module culminate in students becoming immersed in the republic referendum of 1999.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • This resource is useful for the content description in the year 7 history Knowledge and Understanding strand that refers to the process for constitutional change through a referendum.
  • This resource is useful for the aspect of the content description in the year 10 history overview of the Modern World and Australia that refers to the nature of the Cold War and Australia's involvement in it.
  • This resource highlights several referendums but concentrates on the anti-communism referendum in 1951, helping to outline the competing idealogies of capitalism and communism.
Year level

7; 8; 9; 10

Topics Asia Cold War Constitutions Capitalism Voting rights Communism Conflict (Human relations) Constitutional law Referenda Separation of powers Republicanism Superpowers Contemporary world
Learning area
  • Humanities and social sciences
  • Civics and citizenship
  • History

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Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Australian Electoral Commission
  • Organization: Australian Electoral Commission
  • URL: http://www.aec.gov.au/
  • Publisher
  • Name: Australian Electoral Commission
  • Organization: Australian Electoral Commission
  • Description: Publisher
  • URL: http://www.aec.gov.au/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
  • Online
Rights
  • © Australian Electoral Commission 2014. Unless otherwise noted in the materials excluded and rights reserved list at http://www.aec.gov.au/footer/Copyright.htm this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence (CC BY 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/