AC9HS6K01
History
significant individuals, events and ideas that led to Australia’s Federation, the Constitution and democratic system of government
Elaborations
- AC9HS6K01_E1studying Australia’s path to Federation through an examination of key people and events, such as Henry Parkes, Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, George Reid, John Quick, the Tenterfield Oration, the Corowa Conference and the referendums held in the colonies between 1898 and 1900
- AC9HS6K01_E2exploring how the United States of America’s model of federalism (the Washington system) contributed to the ideas for Andrew Clark’s first draft of the Constitution
- AC9HS6K01_E3investigating how Australia’s system of law and government has origins in the Magna Carta, the English Civil War and Westminster system and, therefore, why we have a constitutional monarchy and why there was a separation of powers (legislative, executive, judiciary)
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