How did Aboriginal Australians resist British colonisation?

Topic: History, Civics and Citizenship, Society and Environment, Indigenous Studies, English, Media Studies

Type: Curriculum materials

Years: 5–12

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

Main purpose and content of the unit of work
This unit of work looks at the new Resistance exhibit in the Gallery of the First Australians at the National Museum of Australia. The exhibit explores four case studies dealing with different ways Aboriginal people have reacted to the British colonisation of Australia.

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