Colonisation, law and policy, and the continuing struggle for rights and self-determination.
These are the statements the Aboriginal Studies syllabus makes about Social Justice and Human Rights. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
The concepts of social justice and human rights, and how they have been applied and withheld in Australia.
The process and consequences of dispossession, and how its effects persist in institutions.
International instruments and domestic law, and the gap between ratification and realisation.
Protection, assimilation and self-determination as policy eras, and what each assumed about Aboriginal people.
What the referendum changed, what it did not, and how its significance is often overstated.
Land rights legislation, Mabo, Wik and native title, and the limits of what the law recognises.
Removal policies, the Bringing Them Home report, and the case for and against reparation.
Measuring disadvantage, the targets chosen, and why measurement alone has not closed gaps.
Representative bodies, the Uluru Statement and Voice, and the argument over constitutional recognition.
Movements, campaigns and the strategies that have produced change.
State-based treaty processes, agreement making and what a treaty would and would not settle.
Settler-colonial comparisons and the limits of importing another nation's response.
HSC Aboriginal Studies - Written Paper Shape is 100 marks in 150 minutes. Questions on Social Justice and Human Rights are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Aboriginal Studies uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Social Justice and Human Rights opens the Aboriginal Studies course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Aboriginal Studies dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.