Australian Historic Themes
Framework
Australian Historic Themes
Framework
1. Tracing the evolution
of the Australian environment
1.1 Tracing climatic and
topographical change
1.2 Tracing the emergence of
Australian plants and animals
1.3 Assessing scientifically
diverse environments
1.4 Appreciating the natural
wonders of Australia
2. Peopling
Australia
2.1 Living as Australia's
earliest inhabitants
2.2 Adapting to diverse
environments
2.3 Coming to Australia as a
punishment
2.4 Migrating
2.5 Promoting
settlement
2.6 Fighting for
land
3. Developing
local, regional and national
economies
3.1 Exploring the
coastline
3.2 Constructing capital city
economies
3.3 Surveying the
continent
3.4 Utilising natural
resources
3.5 Developing primary
production
3.6 Recruiting
labour
3.7 Establishing
communications
3.8 Moving goods and
people
3.9 Farming for commercial
profit
3.10 Integrating
people into the cash economy
3.11 Altering the
environment
3.12 Feeding
people
3.13 Developing an Australian
manufacturing capacity
3.14 Developing an Australian
engineering and construction industry
3.15 Developing economic
links outside Australia
3.16 Struggling with
remoteness, hardship and failure
3.17 Inventing
devices
3.18 Financing
Australia
3.19 Marketing and
retailing
3.20 Informing
Australians
3.21 Entertaining for
profit
3.22 Lodging
people
3.23 Catering for
tourists
3.24 Selling companionship
and sexual services
3.25 Adorning
Australians
3.26 Providing health
services
4. Building settlements,
towns and cities
4.1. Planning urban
settlements
4.2 Supplying urban services
(power, transport, fire prevention, roads,
water,
4.3 Developing
institutions
4.4 Living with slums,
outcasts and homelessness
4.5 Making settlements to
serve rural Australia
4.6 Remembering significant
phases in the development of settlements, towns and
cities
5.
Working
5.1 Working in harsh
conditions
5.2 Organising workers and
work places
5.3 Caring for workers'
dependent children
5.4 Working in
offices
5.5 Trying to make crime
pay
5.6 Working in the
home
5.7 Surviving as
Indigenous people in a white-dominated
economy
5.8 Working on the
land
6.
Educating
6.1 Forming
associations, libraries and institutes for
self-education
6.2 Establishing
schools
6.3 Training people
for the workplace
6.4 Building a system
of higher education
6.5 Educating people
in remote places
6.6 Educating
Indigenous people in two cultures
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7.
Governing
7.1. Governing Australia as a
province of the British Empire
7.2. Developing institutions
of self-government and democracy
7.3 Making
City-States
7.4 Federating
Australia
7.5 Governing
Australia's colonial possessions
7.6 Administering
Australia
7.7 Defending
Australia
7.8 Establishing regional and
local identity
8. Developing
Australia's cultural life
8.1 Organising
recreation
8.2 Going to the
beach
8.3 Going on
holiday
8.4 Eating and
drinking
8.5 Forming
associations
8.6 Worshipping
8.7 Honouring
achievement
8.8 Remembering the
fallen
8.9 Commemorating significant
events
8.10 Pursuing excellence in
the arts and sciences
8.11 Making Australian
folklore
8.10Living in and
around Australian homes
8.13 Living in cities and
suburbs
8.14 Living in the country
and rural settlements
8.15 Being
homeless
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9. Marking the
phases of life
9.1 Bringing babies
into the world
9.2 Growing up
9.3 Forming families and
partnerships
9.4 Being an adult
9.5 Living outside a
family/partnership
9.6 Growing old
9.7 Dying
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