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Drawing on key onsite exhibitions, students will consider various factors that influenced European attitudes to First Nations people by examining primary and secondary documents. They will reflect on the gold rush population increase, and how various members of the community were treated at the time. Social balance is considered with individual rights and freedoms, including voting rights, and the class divide with high unemployment and a Depression as major contributors.
VCE Unit 1
Change and Conflict
Ideology and conflict
Social and cultural change
Unit 3
Australian History
Creating a nation (1834–1913)
Power and resistance (1788–1913)