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Full length colour photo of an Aboriginal AFL player standing on the field, lifting up his jumper with one hand and pointing at his belly with the other. He has a determined and defiant expression on his face.

St Kilda player Nicky Winmar points to his skin in response to a racist taunt from the crowd, 1993

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Women wearing surgical masks during influenza epidemic, Brisbane, 1919

Women wearing surgical masks during influenza epidemic, Brisbane, 1919

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Woodcut of Ned Kelly, The Illustrated London News.

Woodcut of Ned Kelly, The Illustrated London News

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‘Race to the Gold Diggings’ board game.

‘Race to the Gold Diggings’ board game

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A portrait of Bennelong

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Participants in the Global Climate Strike in Melbourne, Victoria, 20 September 2019

Active participation Defining Moments

Year 8
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Illustration of people, including Aboriginal people, voting. Produced in 1970 by the Western Australian government in order to educate people (especially in remote communities) about voting.

Voting Defining Moments

Year 5
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Investigating community

Defining moment
1900s_1976_AboriginalLandRightsAct_1 1976

Aboriginal Land Rights Act

Investigation lesson
Pollack

1. A popular culture survey

Year 10
Investigation lesson
50,000th Dutch migrantarrives in Australia aboard the Sibajak, 1954.

1. How would you handle the challenges that migrants face?

Year 10
Investigation lesson
Chart of Botany Bay, 1770, by Lieutenant James Cook.

1.1 Continuity and change: How has Kamay (Botany Bay) changed?

Year 4
Investigation lesson
Aborigines using fire to hunt kangaroos, about 1817, Joseph Lycett

1.1 Setting the scene: Hunting kangaroos

Year 5
Investigation lesson
ABC broadcast vans outside an Olympic venue, 1956.

1.1 Television introduced to Australia

Year 10
Investigation lesson
‘View near Woolwich in Kent shewing [sic] the employment of the convicts from the hulks’, about 1800

1.1 The migrant experience: Convicts

Year 9
Investigation lesson
Protestors at the Franklin River

1.1 What happened with the Franklin Dam?

Year 8

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