Content description VCHHK088

History / Levels 5 and 6 / Historical Knowledge / The Australian colonies

Content description

The social, economic and political causes and reasons for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after 1800

Elaborations

investigating the causes and reasons, including economic, political and social, for the establishment of one or more British colonies
examining a penal colony, for example, Moreton Bay, Van Diemen’s Land, or a colony that later became a state such as Western Australia or Victoria

Code

VCHHK088

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