Democratic Rights
This package is an overview of the construction of the Australian political system and has the following worksheets:
- Combining the Colonies - Federation
- Three Levels of Government
- local government
- local council - facilities and services
- local council business
- state government departments
- state government - making laws
- state government
- state government - Officers of Parliament
- state government - elections
- Federal ParliamentWho"s Who and Who"s Where in the Chamber
- Parliament House
- Federal Government
- crossword political institutions
This workbook is for Year 9 Civics and covers how citizens choices are shaped at election time by the media.
- KWL questions on What factors inflence Australia's political system
- URL video clip on the history of political advertising
- Social media group questions KWL
- weblink URL - How social media wins votes
- Ted Talk questions - Chris Raine - social media and the election
- Australian Politial Parties- reading comprehension
- Australian Labor Party /Greens- history
- Liberal Part of Australia - history, National party history
- Research proforma to research Paries or use history worksheets
- Federal election information sheet- with questions
- Political Party information sheet -with questions
- Stages in an election cartoon activity
- Voting systems - information sheet
- Proportional Representation system - information sheet with questions
- Referendum information sheet with questions
- Word cloze
- Worksheet - Living in a democracy
- Essay sheet - for film Ghandi (topic fight for freedom)
This workbook has scaffolded infomation sheets and questions on the types of media used in elections.
- question sheet on the Ted talk Chris Raine
- influencing your vote: public debate,newspapers,radio,newspapers, advertising, interest groups
- differentiation sheet on What shapes our decisions at election time
- activity - A day in the life of a weary voter
This workbook is full of activities for students to complete on which courts cases are heard. It also includes the following:
- warm up Legal quiz
- help chart for criminal and civil law - helps with the folowing activities
- example cases - students identify criminal or civil case
- Table on legal and non legal rules for students to identify
- question sheet on The Court Hierarchy and their functions
- Senario sheet with which court table for students
- Responsibilities of making laws table
- information flow chart for students on Preceedings in a Magistrates Court Criminal trial
- matching exercise on court personnel
- court identification sheet
This workbook is about how courts apply and interpret the law.
- Example of the Development of Court Made Law - Negligence
- case study Langridge v Levy (1837) - the exploding gun
- case study George v Skivington (1896) Negligently manufactured hair-wash
- Case Study - Donoghue v Stevenson (1932) The snail in the bottle (duty of care created)
- How did Australia get the Law of Negligence?
- case study Grant v Australian Knitting Mills (1936)
Workbook 6 Year 9 civics Factors that Undermine Justice - Trial by Media Azaria Chamberlain case
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Workbook 6 Year 9 civics Factors that Undermine Justice - Trial by Media Azaria Chamberlain case
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This workbook is about factors that can undermine the applicaation of the principle of justice - trial by media, - the case study is the Azaria Chamberlain case.
- information sheet on the background of the case, ie rumours
- Cartoons published in newpapers at the time - students make comment on each one
- Chequebook Journalism - background information on the case
- Question sheet on the information on chequebook jounalism
- Summary sheet on the case