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Life Skills for Stage 4/5

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.

Aboriginal Peoples’ experiences of colonisation in Australia (1788 – c. 1901)

Historical context: During the era of colonisation, International Indigenous Peoples came into contact with European nations who were exploring the world. This had significant short-term and long-term impacts on the Indigenous Peoples. In Australia, Aboriginal Peoples’ experiences of colonisation involved dispossession, resistance, resilience and survival.

This focus area aligns with:

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Content in Working with historical concepts and skills outlines how historical concepts and skills are to be integrated with all other content in this focus area as part of the process of historical inquiry.

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Working with historical concepts and skills
  • Use relevant historical concepts and skills

  • Engage in the historical inquiry process

  • Communicate ideas about Aboriginal Peoples’ experiences of colonisation through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts

Background, origins and connections to Aboriginal Peoples’ experiences of colonisation in Australia
  • Evidence of Aboriginal Peoples prior to colonisation

  • Differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal worldviews of relationships to Land and Country

  • Aspects of the daily life of Aboriginal Peoples prior to British arrival

  • Appropriate and respectful terminology to use when communicating information about Aboriginal Peoples

  • The geographical location of initial interactions

Significant groups, individuals, ideas, beliefs, practices or events relating to Aboriginal Peoples’ experiences of colonisation in Australia
  • The role and significance of a key individual or group during initial interactions between Aboriginal Peoples and the British

  • The nature of interactions with the British regarding Aboriginal Peoples

  • The effect of interactions with the British on Aboriginal Peoples

  • Aboriginal Peoples’ Connection to Country as context for defending Country

  • Reasons for the Frontier Wars

  • The role and significance of a key individual or group during the Frontier Wars

  • The Myall Creek Massacre and its importance for Aboriginal People

Impact and legacies relating to Aboriginal Peoples’ experiences of colonisation in Australia to c. 1901
  • Why stations, missions and reserves were established and what this meant for Aboriginal Peoples

  • How Aboriginal men, women and children were and continue to be impacted by colonisation

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