Discovering History - Upper Primary: Australia Enters The Big World (Australian In The 20th and 21st Centuries)

Australia Enters the Big World traces the history of Australia from 1972 when Australia got its first ALP Government after 23 years, up to 1989, when Australia had emerged as a multicultural country. Read about Australia’s change in government from Liberal to Labor under Gough Whitlam in 1972, changes to Australia’s economy and the way Australia traded with other countries. Find out how Australia looked more to the Asian countries surrounding it for trade and friendship and began after more than a century to take in Asian migrants.
This book is classified as Reading Level 27 / Fountas and Pinnell Level R.

Table Of Contents

Introduction
Timeline
The Snowy Mountains Scheme
Australia's Awakening
Australia's Immigration Policy
Aboriginal Peoples of Australia
Feminism
China and Human Rights
Refugees
Green Bans
Glossary
Index
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