The UN
Rights and Freedoms - Australia
Sources and key terms
Rights and Freedoms - USA
Modern Issues
100

This event led many world leaders to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Holocaust

100

Aboriginal people experienced discrimination in the past. True/false?

True.

100

Picture 1 - What concept does this image show?

Segregation.

100

*Define 'assimilation'.

A minority group comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviours, and beliefs of another group.

100

What triggered the recent movement in 2020?

Geroge Floyd's Death


200

List 2 examples of human rights

The right to life, the right to shelter, the right to liberty and freedom, the right to make decisions about your own body, etc.

200

Australia is part of the UN. True or False?

True.

200

What is needed to answer an explain question?

Identify: List/Define

Describe: Features and characteristics 

Explain Cause and effect

200

Define 'segregation'.

The separation of people in daily life.
200

What was the Black Lives Matter Protest aims in Australia?

Stop the high death count within juvenile incarceration of Indignious Australians  

300

Who wrote the International Declaration of Human Rights?

The United Nations

300

What is the Stolen Generation

The systematic removal of Aboriginal Children within Australia 

300

Picture 2 - This map shows the route of something. What does it show?

Australian Freedom Rides in NSW.

300

Where did the US Freedom Riders go to protest?

Deep south states; Texas, Alabama, etc.
300

What was the aims of the Black Lives Matter protest within America?

Stop police racial profiling 

400

*What does the UDHR stand for?

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

400

What was a long-term impact of the Stolen Generation?

Intergenerational Tramua: where past trauma is unknowingly passed down to family members. 

Stolen Wages: ongoing social and financial distress  

400

What is the difference between a primary and a secondary source? Example?

Primary source - Immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it. 

Secondary - One step removed from primary sources, though they often quote or otherwise use primary sources. 

400

Describe the purpose of Rosa Parks boycotts

The protest was to end segreation on buses / public transportation 

400

What is Closing the Gap?

The Closing the Gap framework is a strategy by the Commonwealth and state and territory governments of Australia that aims to reduce disparity between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians on key health, education and economic opportunity targets.

500

*When was the UDHR adopted by the United Nations?

1948

500

What are the impacts of Stolen Wages?

Economic consequences 

Intergenerational poverty

Worse job prospects

Unemployment 

Drug and alcohol abuse

loss of culture

stereotypes


500

Picture 3 - What is the message of this cartoon?

To show the public what the expectations were for the Aboriginal people using the Moree pools.

500

Describe the different types of protests within the US. 

Marches: a peaceful, non-violent protest where people march to advocate for their rights. 

Sit-ins: People sitting in a venue and refusing to move until their rights are being met. 

Boycotts: Refusing to use a service or purchase from a business as a form of a protest. 

Voter Register Drives: A drive where many people educate others how to vote and help them. 

Freedom rides: Where people sit together in form of protest to challenge segreation. 

500

What is an example of how media can negativetly impact a protest due to misrepresentation?

Pespi superbowl ad in 2017 with Kendall Jenner