VCE Australian History Past Exam Questions
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a. Using Source 9, identify two responses by Aboriginal people to the challenge of colonisation in the Portland district. 2 marks
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b. Using Source 10 and your own knowledge, explain how frontier battles and conflicts had an impact on Aboriginal people and pastoralists, and contributed to political change in Au
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c. Using Source 11 and your own knowledge, explain one political change and one economic change in the rights of women between 1894 and 1998. 6 marks
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d. Using Source 12, outline one perspective held by the protesters after the dismissal of the Whitlam Government in 1975. 2 marks 2022 AUSHIST EXAM 14 DO NOT W R I T E N T H I S A
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e. Evaluate the extent to which protest was successful in challenging the exercise of power and governance in the period from 1850 to 1998. Use evidence to support your response. 1
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Question 4 – War and upheaval (1909–1992) ........................................................................................... 16–19 2022 AUSHIST EXAM 4 d o n o t w r i t e
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a. Using Source 13, identify two roles available for women throughout World War I. 2 marks
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b. Using Source 14 and your own knowledge, explain the responses required of people on the home front during the war against Japan between 1942 and 1945. 5 marks 17 2022 AUSHIST EX
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c. Using Source 15, outline one idea about regional security that influenced Australia’s involvement in post-World War II conflicts. 2 marks
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d. Using Source 16 and your own knowledge, explain the change in perspective about Australian involvement in the Vietnam War. 6 marks 2022 AUSHIST EXAM 18 DO NOT W R I T E N T H I
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e. Evaluate the extent to which compulsory service caused tension in Australian society between 1914 and 1975. Use evidence to support your response. 10 marks 19 2022 AUSHIST EXAM
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Question 1 (20 marks) From custodianship to the Anthropocene (60 000 BCE – 2010) ‘Australians, since 1950, have firmly believed that the benefits of the mining industry to Australi
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