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11–12Aboriginal Studies 11–12 Syllabus (2026)

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Implementation from 2028
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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 6

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Experiences of the international Indigenous Community pre-contact to 1960: comparative study

Students explore the importance of Country, Cultural Knowledges and Practices and the impacts and responses to invasion and colonisation through the study of ONE international Indigenous Community and ONE local Aboriginal Community(ies) or ONE NSW Aboriginal Community(ies). Examples of these Community(ies) could include Wiradjuri Peoples, Wellington, NSW, Australia; Ngāi Tahu People, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Loading  are to be integrated throughout this focus area based on the strengths and needs of individual students.

The importance of Country, Cultural Knowledges and Practices

  • The location and Language of the selected Communities

  • Ways in which the selected Communities express their connection to Country

  • Ways the selected Communities express their Cultural Knowledges, Practices and Languages

  • The role of kinship or social organisations in the selected Communities

The impacts of invasion and colonisation

  • Key groups involved in invasion and colonisation of the selected Communities

  • Reasons for invasion and colonisation of the selected Communities

  • Key events in the invasion and colonisation of the selected Communities

  • Impacts of invasion and colonisation on the selected Communities

  • Experiences of power and authority for the selected Communities during invasion and colonisation

  • Experiences of racism for the selected Communities due to invasion and colonisation

Responses to colonisation

  • Individuals or groups that took action to support their Community

  • Actions taken by individuals or groups against colonisation

  • A key protest or response to colonisation by the selected Communities

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