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7–10Commerce 7–10 Syllabus

Record of changes
Implementation from 2027
Expand for detailed implementation advice

Content

Stage 5

Options

Teachers select options from:

  • Our economy
  • Running a business
  • Promoting and selling
  • Investing
  • Law in action
  • Political and community involvement
  • The travel consumer
  • Towards independence
  • School-developed option.
Law in action (option)
Human rights and laws in Australia
  • The importance of human rights

  • The characteristics of human rights

  • How human rights are incorporated into Australian law

  • The ways in which children in Australia are protected under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Nature of legal capacity
  • The features of legal capacity

  • The legal capacity of children as minors

  • The age when various rights and responsibilities are granted by law

Resolving disputes
  • The role of law enforcement agencies

  • The rights and responsibilities of young people when interacting with the police

  • The types of court personnel

  • The role of juries and how they are selected

  • Reasons for and against the use of juries

  • The range of ways that courts interact with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, including Culturally responsive approaches

  • Types and benefits of alternative dispute resolution methods

  • The ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities resolve disputes

Contact with criminal law
  • The classification of crimes

  • The elements that must be proven for someone to be convicted of a crime

  • The purposes and types of punishments for a range of crimes

  • Consequences of having a criminal record

Contact with civil law
  • The ways in which individuals may come into contact with civil law

  • The capacity of a young person to enter into different types of contracts

  • The purposes and types of civil law remedies

Thinking, researching and communicating
  • Investigate a current issue in relation to the law in action and communicate findings using relevant subject-specific terminology in written, oral, visual or multimodal form

  • Create written texts to explain and analyse aspects of the law in action

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