Discovering History - Upper Primary: The New Century (Australian In The 20th and 21st Centuries)

Part of the series Discovering History: Upper Primary - Australia In The 20th and 21st Centuries.

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From Hawke to the New Century traces the history of Australia from 1989 up to the end of the 1990s. Read about the changes in government policy brought about by Bob Hawke’s Labor government in the 1980s, further changes prompted by a swap in leadership from Bob Hawke to Paul Keating and how Australia changed during the Howard years, from 1996 up to the end of the 1990s. Find out about the growth of the Australian film and music industries, how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were able to start making Native Title land claims and the internet revolution.
This book is classified as Reading Level 29 / Fountas and Pinnell Level T.

Table Of Contents

Introduction
Timeline
Australia in the Market World
John Howard's Government
An Australian Republic?
World Problems, Refugees and Australia
Pauline Hanson and the Two Australias
Australian Music and Film Across the World
Native Title
Port Arthur Massacre
The Internet Revolution: Australia's Global Citizens
The Environment Becomes an Issue
East Timor
Glossary
Index
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