What Does Australia Day Mean?

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  • Primary
  • Year 6
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • History
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
  • Social
  • Equality
  • Human Rights
  • Indigenous Education
  • Leadership
  • Social Action
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What does Australia Day mean to you? A BBQ and beach cricket? To Australia's First Nations peoples, it marks the colonisation of their lands and dispossession of their peoples. It's time to investigate both perspectives.

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  • The motivation of people migrating to Australia since Federation and throughout the 20th century, their stories and effects on Australian society, including migrants from the Asia region (AC9HS6K03)

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