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Megan Davis - Constitutional and International lawyer

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Professor Megan Davis is a leading Indigenous Australian whose work influences law and Indigenous policy in Australia, particularly advancing constitutional reform and recognition for Indigenous Australians.

Rosemary Kayess - Human rights lawyer

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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.

Jane Connors - International lawyer

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Jane Connors has had a distinguished academic career in which she has dedicated her scholarship and work as an international law practitioner to the betterment of United Nations (UN) treaty mechanisms and the rights of women and children.

Dirk Hartog 1616–2016: 400 years of Dutch-Australian connections

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 10 students.

Dutch–Australian connections in World War II

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As World War II broke out across Europe in 1939, the Dutch had initially remained neutral. When Germany occupied the Netherlands in 1940, the Dutch lost the ability to defend their colonies in the Netherlands East Indies.

Dutch experiences in Australia

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After World War II, the people of the Netherlands found themselves with a long journey ahead of them, resurrecting a war-ravaged country that was struggling to overcome recent famine and mass casualties in the Holocaust.

Convicts, conflict and confrontation

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: HASS for Year 5 students. It adopts an inquiry learning approach that develops students’ skills as historians.

Documenting modernity

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Sievers’ work is a pictorial timeline showing Australia’s social, technological and industrial transformation.

Medium Aevum - The Middle Age

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 8 students. It adopts an inquiry learning approach that develops students’ skills in investigating the Medieval Europe and the early modern world sub-strand. 

Imperium Romanum - The Roman Empire

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Throughout human history, societies have grown, matured, and then collapsed, making way for new innovations, people and philosophies to begin the cycle again, building on what came before. The history of Medieval Europe is no different: it has its roots in the collapse of the western Roman Empire in 456 CE.

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