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Impacts of Colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples Posters
Posters highlighting the main impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
These posters include information about:
- disease
- dispossession
- conflict
- loss of traditional resources
- loss of cultural identity.
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The First Fleet and the British Colonisation of Australia Unit Plan
This History unit covers a range of concepts relating to the stories of the First Fleet; including reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, their experiences following arrival and the impact colonisation had on Indigenous Australians.
NSW Curriculum alignment
- HT2-2
Describes and explains how significant individuals, groups and events contributed to changes in the local community over time
- HT2-3
Describes people, events and actions related to world exploration and its effects
- HT2-4
Describes and explains effects of British colonisation in Australia
- HT3-2
Describes and explains different experiences of people living in Australia over time
- HT3-4
Describes and explains the struggles for rights and freedoms in Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCHHC084
Describe perspectives and identify ideas, beliefs and values of people and groups in the past
- VCHHC084
Describe perspectives and identify ideas, beliefs and values of people and groups in the past
- VCHHK091
The causes and the reasons why people migrated to Australia from Europe and Asia, and the perspectives, experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony
- VCHHK091
The causes and the reasons why people migrated to Australia from Europe and Asia, and the perspectives, experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACHASSK086
The nature of contact between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and others, for example, the Macassans and the Europeans, and the effects of these interactions on, for example, people and environments
- ACHASSK109
The reasons people migrated to Australia and the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony
- ACHASSK085
Stories of the First Fleet, including reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, and their experiences following arrival
- ACHASSK107
The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants (including Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) and how the environment changed

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