| Book 1 looks at Aboriginal society before European settlement and at the impact of settlement on the Indigenous peoples of Australia. explores the historical development and changing nature of Australian communities, values and beliefs, as well as focusing on the rights and responsibilities of all citizens.
Topics Included:
- Aboriginal Culture
- The clan and Band
- Standard of Living
- Oral Tradition
- Communal Ownership
- British Settlement Exploration and Penal Colony
- Terra Nullius and Dispossession
- Stolen Generation
- Black Deaths in Custody
- The 1967 Referendum
- Land Rights and Native Title
- Reconciliation
- The early British governors
- Self Government
- Federation
- The Constitution
- Constitutional Monarchy
- Sacking of Sir John Kerr
- Monarchy or Republic?
- Australia's sources of wealth- agriculture and mining. |
