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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education for Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 students. Students will engage with a rich selection of sources and be challenged to draw their own conclusions about the role of sport in Australia’s culture and history.

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At least four VOC ships were shipwrecked on the Western Australian coast in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Understand how advertising to attract migrants and visitors is linked to Australia's immigration policies with this teaching resource.

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The postwar era saw advertising reflect notions of the ideal Australian home, of masculinity and feminine beauty and of health.

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Explore how Second Wave feminism and social changes in the 20th century reshaped women’s rights, roles, and aspirations in society.

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This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Modern History for Senior Secondary students, with specific reference to content descriptions for Unit 1: Understanding the Modern World, and specifically those that fall under the topic elective ‘The Enlightenment (1750–1789)’.

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During the Enlightenment, social and scientific thinking began to change. Enlightenment thinkers pushed for social change through the separation of church and state and the establishment of constitutional government. 

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Rosemary Kayess has devoted her career to the study and promotion of human rights and discrimination law in Australia and internationally.

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Examine how increasing recognition of First Nations cultures and perspectives is reshaping the national conversation about Australia's post-European settlement history.

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Many European explorers, sailing across the eastern Pacific islands from the eighteenth century onwards, reported with astonishment their visits at religious sites, the impressive carved statues and the complex ceremonies they witnessed.