The shared values of Australian citizenship and the formal rights and responsibilities of Australian citizens
Elaborations
investigating how people become Australian citizens (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Intercultural Understanding)
discussing the Australian citizenship pledge and comparing it to the former oath of allegiance to the monarch to explore notions of allegiance (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Intercultural Understanding)
clarifying the formal rights and responsibilities of Australian citizenship and comparing these to the rights and responsibilities of non-citizens (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding)
exploring how laws protect human rights (for example, gender, disability, race and age discrimination law) (Skills: Literacy, Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding)
exploring the experiences of people who have migrated to Australia and who have taken up Australian citizenship (for example, those of Asian heritage) (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding)