A Walk Through 'White Australia' at the National Museum of Australia

Topic: History, Studies of Society and Environment, English, Politics
Type: Curriculum materials
Years: 9 - 12

Key Curriculum Links:
Time, Continuity and Change; Culture; Natural and Social Systems; Investigation, Communication and Participation.

Investigates how National Museum of Australia exhibition displays represent the 'White Australia' issue in Australian History and asks students to decide whether this representation is fair and accurate.

The student activities included in this unit cover the following topics:

• Activity 1: What do National Museum displays tell us about White Australia? (includes the Gold rushes, Afghans, Quong Tart, Pacific Island and Torres Strait Island labourers, Japanese, Immigration Restriction Act 1901, Sweat Box, European migration to Australia in the early twentieth century, refugees, Joyce Doru - 1990s, Indigenous rights)
  
• Activity 2: Analysing another representation of White Australia
  
• Activity 3: Conclusion: How well the National Museum of Australia represent the White Australia issue?

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