Year 7 Civics and Citizenship
The Year 7 curriculum provides a study of the key features of Australia’s system of government and explores how this system aims to protect all Australians. Students examine the Australian Constitution and how its features, principles and values shape …
Year 7 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 9 Civics and Citizenship
The Year 9 curriculum builds students’ understanding of Australia’s political system and how it enables change. Students examine the ways political parties, interest groups, media and individuals influence government and decision making processes. They …
Year 9 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 10 Civics and Citizenship
The Year 10 curriculum develops student understanding of Australia’s system of government through comparison with another system of government in the Asian region. Students examine Australia’s roles and responsibilities within the international context, …
Year 10 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Rationale Civics and Citizenship
A deep understanding of Australia's federal system of government and the liberal democratic values that underpin it is essential in enabling students to become active and informed citizens who participate in and sustain Australia’s democracy. The Australian …
Rationale | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Aims Civics and Citizenship
The Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship aims to ensure students develop: a lifelong sense of belonging to and engagement with civic life as an active and informed citizen in the context of Australia as a secular democratic nation with a dynamic, …
Aims | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Structure Civics and Citizenship
The Years 7–10 Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship is organised into two interrelated strands: civics and citizenship knowledge and understanding, and civics and citizenship inquiry and skills. Civics and citizenship knowledge and understanding …
Structure | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Civics and Citizenship Year 10
By the end of Year 10, students compare and evaluate the key features and values of systems of government, and analyse the Australian Government’s global roles and responsibilities. They analyse the role of the High Court and explain how Australia’s …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 10 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHCK048
The key features of government under the Australian Constitution with a focus on: the separation of powers, the roles of the Executive, the Houses of Parliament, and the division of powers
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHCK048 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHCK075
The role of political parties and independent representatives in Australia’s system of government, including the formation of governments
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHCK075 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHCK103
The process through which government policy is shaped and developed, including the role of Prime Minister and Cabinet
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHCK103 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHCK090
The key features and values of Australia’s system of government compared with at least ONE other system of government in the Asia region
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHCK090 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHCK091
The Australian Government’s role and responsibilities at a global level, for example provision of foreign aid, peacekeeping, participation in international organisations and the United Nations
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHCK091 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHCK093
How Australia’s international legal obligations shape Australian law and government policies, including in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHCK093 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHCK048
using an issue such as water management, education or health to explore the division of powers between state/territory and federal levels of government and identifying the way that conflicts between state laws and Commonwealth laws are resolved
Elaboration (1) | ACHCK048 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACHCK048
identifying the principles of representative and responsible government that underpin the Australian Constitution
Elaboration (3) | ACHCK048 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHCK063
discussing examples of recent laws passed through parliaments that enact government policy
Elaboration (2) | ACHCK063 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHCK075
investigating how the contemporary party system operates in Australia’s liberal democracy and how governments are formed in parliament
Elaboration | ACHCK075 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHCK075
discussing the meaning of key concepts such as parliamentary majority, the opposition, hung parliament, minority government
Elaboration (1) | ACHCK075 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHCK103
identifying the role of parliament and particularly the opposition in debating policy proposed by the Executive, in authorising the government to spend public money and scrutinising the administrative actions of the government
Elaboration (1) | ACHCK103 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHCK079
researching the work of a non-government organisation (NGO), philanthropist, community group or religious group and how and why they contribute to the Australian community
Elaboration | ACHCK079 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum