Changing rights in the 1900s
Describe changes to Australia's political system and citizenship after Federation and throughout the 20th century that affected First Nations Australians, migrants, women and children
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Check understanding
- Place key changes on an annotated timeline: federal voting rights for most women (1902), the creation of Australian citizenship (from 1949), the right of all First Nations Australians to vote in federal elections (1962) and the 1967 referendum
- Explain that the 1967 referendum changed the Constitution so the Commonwealth Parliament could make laws for Aboriginal people and so Aboriginal people would be counted in the national population, and that it did not itself grant citizenship or voting rights
- Explain how the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (the basis of the White Australia policy) affected migrants, and how policies of forcibly removing First Nations children (the Stolen Generations) affected children, using appropriate sources
“Does your child know that rights like voting weren't always given to everyone in Australia — and can they explain what the 1967 referendum actually changed?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- History
- Domain
- Modern History
- Age range
- Ages 11–12
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