The Globalising World: Changing policies and Australian identity A unit of work for the Australian Curriculum: History, Year 10 Contents The Australian Human Rights Commission Introduction 4 encourages the dissemination and exchange of information provided in this publication. Links to the Australian Curriculum 5 All material presented in this publication is provided under Creative Commons Attribution Focus 9 3.0 Australia, with the exception of: Teaching and Learning Activities 10 • the Australian Human Rights Commission Logo Teacher support 11 • photographs and images • any content or material provided Achievement, learning and assessment 13 by third parties. The details of the relevant licence conditions are Sequences 15 available on the Creative Commons website, as is the full legal code for the CC BY 3.0 AU licence. Sequence 1—Migration experiences: Post-War to the 1970s 16 Sequence 2—Dismantling the White Australia Policy Attribution in the 1970s 38 Material obtained from this publication is to be attributed to the Australian Human Rights Sequence 3—Multiculturalism and migration in the Commission with the following copyright notice: 1980s and 1990s 52 © Australian Human Rights Commission 2014. ISBN 978-1-921449-64-2 Sequence 4—Shaping multicultural Australia since 2000 62 Design and layout Dancingirl Designs Resources 83 Cover photograph A migrant family arrives at Walsh Bay, Sydney, aboard the Italian ship, Resources for this unit 84 Napoli, 11 March 1950. Fairfax Media archives. Program Planner 91 Electronic format This publication can be found in electronic Sequence 2 Resource Sheet: The Racial format on the website of the Australian Human Discrimination Act 93 Rights Commission: www.humanrights.gov.au/ publications/index.html. 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The Globalising World: Changing policies and Australian identity • History, Year 10 • 3 Introduction This unit is based on the Australian Curriculum: History depth study ‘The Globalising World’. It investigates a major global influence that has shaped Australian society during the twentieth century, namely migration experiences from 1945 to the present day. The key aspects covered in the unit are the impacts of immigration and multiculturalism. Highlighted as learning Migrant Arrivals in Australia – 50,000th Dutch migrant, threads throughout the unit are the arrives in Australia aboard the SIBAJAK (1954), National Archives of Australia, NAA: A12111, 1/1954/4/53. impacts of changing immigration policies and the development of human rights and anti-racism movements. CONTENTS The Globalising World: Changing policies and Australian identity • History, Year 10 • 4 Links to the Australian Curriculum Year 10 History: Overview of the Modern World and Australia/The Globalising World/Migrant Experiences (1945 – Present) Content The content in this unit relates to the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 10 which looks at providing an Overview of the Modern World and Australia. Of the three depth studies covered in this historical period, this unit examines ‘The Globalising World’ depth study, with a focus on the ‘Migrant experiences (1945–Present)’ elective. General Capabilities The general capabilities emphasised in this unit of work are Intercultural understanding, Ethical understanding, Literacy, Personal and social capability, Critical and creative thinking, and Information and communication technology (ICT) capability. Cross-curriculum priority The cross-curriculum priority emphasised in this unit is Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia. CONTENTS The Globalising World: Changing policies and Australian identity • History, Year 10 • 5 Links to the Australian Curriculum Year 10 History: Overview of the Modern World and Australia/ The Globalising World/Migrant Experiences (1945 – Present) Content Description Elaborations Being healthy, safe and active ACDSEH144 — • investigating the nature of the waves of migration such as the countries that The waves of post- were the source of migrants, the numbers of migrants from those countries, World War II migration to and trends in migration since World War II such as increasing migration from Australia, including the the Asian region to Australia influence of significant world events Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing ACSDEH145 — • describing the main features of a government policy that affected migration to The impact of changing Australia, such as the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 and use of the dictation government policies test to restrict the immigration of non-Europeans on Australia’s migration • explaining the reasons for changes in government policy, for example the patterns, including influence of White Australia ideology at the time of the introduction of the abolition of the White Immigration Restriction Act 1901; the Displaced Persons Scheme in the Australia Policy, aftermath of World War II ‘Populate or Perish’ ACDSEH146 — • describing how conflict in Vietnam (1975) resulted in the arrival of refugees The impact of at least into Australia and the impact this had on Australian society ONE world event or development and its significance for Australia, such as the Vietnam War and Indochinese refugees ACDSEH147 — • investigating policies of multiculturalism since the 1970s and the concepts The contribution of of cultural heritage and assimilation migration to Australia’s • exploring the introduction and purpose of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 changing identity as a nation and to its international relationships The Globalising World: Changing policies and Australian identity • History, Year 10 • 6 Links to the Australian Curriculum Year 10 History: Overview of the Modern World and Australia/ The Globalising World/Migrant Experiences (1945 – Present) Key Historical Concepts CONTENTS The Australian Curriculum for History outlines a number of key historical concepts that should be taught in RESOURCES conjunction with historical knowledge and skills. These key concepts provide a focus for historical Key concepts, History investigation, a framework for organising historical Teachers’ Association of Australia information and a guide for developing historical understanding and analysing sources. This unit includes a focus on the following key historical concepts: Cause and effect – used by historians to identify chains of events and developments over time, short term and long term. Contestability – occurs when particular interpretations about the past are open to debate, for example, as a result of a lack of evidence or different perspectives. Continuity and change – aspects of the past that remained the same over certain periods of time are referred to as continuities. Continuity and change are evident in any given period of time and concepts such as progress and decline may be used to evaluate continuity and change. Empathy – empathy is an understanding of the past from the point of view of a particular individual or group, including an appreciation of the circumstances they faced, and the motivations, values and attitudes behind their actions. The Globalising World: Changing policies and Australian identity • History, Year 10 • 7 Links to the Australian Curriculum Year 10 History: Overview of the Modern World and Australia/ The Globalising World/Migrant Experiences (1945 – Present) Perspective – a person’s perspective is their point of CONTENTS view, the position from which they see and understand events going on around them. People in the past may RESOURCES have had different points of view about a particular event, depending on their age, gender, social position Key concepts, History and their beliefs and values. For example a convict girl Teachers’ Association of and an Aboriginal Elder would have had quite different