AC9HS4K01

The diversity of First Nations Australians, their social organisation and their continuous connection to Country/Place.

• Investigating the diversity and significance of trade and exchange of ideas to First Nations Australians, including with groups outside Australia such as the Macassans.

AC9HS4K02

The causes of the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788.

• Examining the journeys of one or more explorers who sailed parts of the route to Australia, such as Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan, using navigation maps to reconstruct their journeys, in order to investigate how exploration and knowledge of routes allowed for the later feasible settlement of Australia.
• Examining journeys of the Australian coastline of one or more explorers (for example, Dirk Hartog, Abel Tasman, James Cook, Comte de la Perouse, Willem Jansz) using navigation maps to reconstruct their journeys, in order to investigate the possibility of countries settling Australia to expand their empires.

AC9HS4K04

The effects of contact with other people on First Nations Australians and their Countries/Places following the arrival of the First Fleet and how this was viewed by First Nations Australians as an invasion.

• Investigating contact between First Nations Australians and people from different continents (Asia and Europe) before 1788; for example, the repulsion of the Dutch at Cape Keerweer in 1606, trade, sharing of ideas and technologies.