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FEDERAL ELECTION DATE: Saturday 18 May 2019
Discovering Democracy units:
Discovering Democracy units (ABC): - Should the People Rule? See: Focus Question 4: How do the people rule in Australia? - Activity 3: Voting. Discovering Democracy units (ABC): - Democratic struggles See: Focus question 5: Why didn't all adults get the vote at Federation... - Activity 1: The argument about women's voting rights. - Activity 2: Methods used by women to gain the vote. - Activity 5: The 1967 Referendum. - Activity 6: A timeline of Aboriginal people's achievement of the right to vote.
Discovering Democracy units (ABC): - Parties Control Government See: Student introduction - Activity 1: Preparing for an opinion poll - Activity 2: Conducting the poll (Continues in Focus question 3 below) Focus question 1: What role do political parties have in parliament and government? - Activity 1: Class discussion (parties, issues, policies, parliament, government) - Activity 2: Who forms the government? - Activity 3: Who does what in government? - Activity 4: Defining and explaining (party discipline) - Activity 5: Loyalty to party or electorate? - Activity 6: Is the party in government an elected dictatorship? Focus question 2: Who do Australia's political parties represent? - Activity 1: Australia's political parties - Activity 2: 'Left' and 'right' - Activity 4: The middle ground Focus question 3: How do parties select policies and campaign for government? - Activity 4: Opinion poll analysis (Continues from Activity 2 in the Student introduction above) - Activity 5: Collating the findings
Discovering Democracy activities are also available in handout form
See also our Democracy page and Lesson activities page.
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