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Teaching and Learning Activities

Resources for Students

• Rights established in the Australian Constitution, Acts of Parliament (including role of Ombudsman and Australian Human Rights Commission) and court rulings
• Other organisations protecting human rights

3a: Establishing and Protecting Human Rights in Australia

• Use of sources to identify ways human rights in Australia are established and protected

Handouts

• Rights Protected by Acts of Parliament (Task 2)

• Rights Protected or Extended by Court Decisions (Task 3)

• Rights Protected by Non-Government Organisations (Task 4)

Digital Learning Objects

• Changing Faces: Three Interviews (TLF-ID L1010) (Task 2)

Websites

• Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (Task 1)

• Australian Human Rights Commission (Task 2)

• Amnesty International (Task 4)

• Indigenous Australians and Citizenship under the Constitution
• Changes to laws and establishment of new laws to protect human rights of Indigenous people
• Apology to the Stolen Generations

3b: The Rights of Indigenous Australians

• Use of sources to identify human rights denied to Aboriginal people in the past

• Comprehension task: Racial Discrimination Act

• PMIQ about what the Apology is likely to achieve for Indigenous Australians and questions that students may wish to investigate further

Handouts

• Aboriginal People and the Australian Constitution (1901) (Task 1)

• The Racial Discrimination Act (1975) (Task 3)

• PMIQ chart (Task 4)

Digital Learning Objects

• Making a Difference: The Day of Mourning Protesters (TLF-ID L5207) (Task 1)

• Making a Difference: Pat O’Shane (TLF-ID L5214) (Task 2)

Websites

• Australian Government’s Apology to the Stolen Generations of Australia (Task 4)

• Australian Screen’s Blood Brothers – Freedom Ride: Have you ever met an Aborigine? Clip 1 (Task 2)

• Australian Screen’s Blood Brothers – Freedom Ride: Creating a revolution Clip 2 (Task 2)

• Australian Screen’s Blood Brothers – Freedom Ride: Children join the bus Clip 3 (Task 2)

• Australian Capital Territory’s Human Rights Act (2004) and the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act (2006)

3c: Applying a Bill of Rights

• Applying situations to legislation to determine strengths and weaknesses of a Bill of Rights

Handouts

• Bill of Rights for the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria (Task 1)

• Situations for ‘You Be the Judge’ (Task 2)

• Venn Diagram (Task 1)

Digital Learning Object

• Human Rights (TLF-ID L9522) (Task 2)

Websites

• The Australian Capital Territory’s Human Rights Act (2004) (Tasks 1 and 2)

• The Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities (2006) (Tasks 1 and 2)

• David Irving case and freedom of speech

3d: Freedom of Speech – A Case Study

• Application of knowledge of human rights issues to a case study on freedom of speech

Assessment Task

• Debate: Arguments for and against an Australian Bill of Rights

Handouts

• The David Irving Case (Task 2)

Websites

• Pixton – comic strip creator (Task 2)

• Podcasting Tools (Assessment Task)

Other

• online search engine, for example, Google (Assessment Task)