European Arrival
The year the first fleet landed
What is 1788?
The name given to Indigenous children who were forcibly removed from their families
What is The Stolen Generation?
The year the six Australian colonies officially unite to form the Commonwealth of Australia
What is 1901?
The year when the Gold Rush started in Australia.
This part of IOPCAM asks: Who created the source and what type of source is it?
What is Origin?
The First Fleet arrived in this place.
What is Botany Bay?
The term used to describe the conflicts and violence between European settlers and Indigenous people during colonisation
What is the Frontier Wars?
Defence, trade, and a growing sense of shared identity.
What are the reasons for Federation?
This colony became very wealthy due to the gold rush.
What is Victoria?
This step helps you figure out why the source was created and what the creator wanted to achieve.
What is motive?
What is Terra Nullius?
This impact of colonisation caused major population decline among Indigenous peoples.
What is disease?
This document set out the rules for governing Australia.
What is the Constitution?
The year when the Eureka Stockade happened.
What is 1854?
This part asks: Who was the source made for, and who would see or read it?
What is Audience?
The types of crimes that convicts were usually transported for
What is petty crimes?
This term describes the taking of land from Indigenous Australians without treaty or payment.
What is dispossession?
After Federation, this policy limited non-European immigration to Australia and shaped the nation’s population.
What is the White Australia Policy?
Why were the miners angry and wanting change during the Eureka Stockade?
Poor living conditions, rough treatment by police, being fined heavily for not having a mining licence
When using IOPCAM, this element considers the time and situation in which the source was produced.
What is Context?
The main reason for Australian colonisation
Overcrowding prisons
He led the First Fleet and became the first Governor of New South Wales.
Who is Arthur Phillip?
The person considered the key architect of Australian Federation and became Australia's first Prime Minister.
Who is Edmund Barton
This was a key political result of the gold rush protests.
What is greater democracy (e.g. voting rights/licence reforms)?
In IOPCAM, this element looks at what the source tells you and what it implies about the past, including facts, messages, or opinions.
What is Information?