HISTORY: Australian HistoryWritten examination

Friday 13 November 2015 Reading time: 3.00 pm to 3.15 pm (15 minutes) Writing time: 3.15 pm to 5.15 pm (2 hours)

QUESTION AND ANSWER BOOK

Structure of bookSection Number of

questionsNumber of questions

to be answeredNumber of

marks

A 2 1 20B 1 1 20C 3 1 20D 1 1 20

Total 80

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Materials supplied• Questionandanswerbookof22pages.ThereisadetachableinsertforSectionsAandDinthe

centrefold.• Additionalspaceisavailableattheendofthebookifyouneedextrapapertocompleteananswer.

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• AllwrittenresponsesmustbeinEnglish.

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SUPERVISOR TO ATTACH PROCESSING LABEL HEREVictorian Certificate of Education 2015

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SECTION A – Question 1–continued

Question 1 (20marks)RefertoDocumentAonpage1oftheinsert.

a. Identifytwoactivitiesbeingundertakeninthedocument. 2marks

b. Identifyandexplaintwopiecesofevidence,fromthedocument,thatdemonstratethatMelbournewastransforminginthe1850s. 4marks

SECTION A

Instructions for Section ASectionAisbasedonUnit3Outcome1:Anewland:PortPhillipDistrict/colonyofVictoria 1830–1860.Thissectioncontainstwodocuments–DocumentAandDocumentB.Youwillfindthesedocumentsonpages1and2oftheinsert.Select either Document A or Document B. IfyouselectDocumentA,answerallpartsofQuestion1.IfyouselectDocumentB,answerallpartsofQuestion2.

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c. TowhatextentdidimmigrationduringthegoldrushchangeMelbourneandVictoriaupto1860?

Useevidencetosupportyourresponse. 6marks

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d. EvaluatetheextenttowhichhopesandvisionsheldbyimmigrantstoVictoriainthe1850shadbeenachievedby1860.

Useevidencetosupportyourresponse. 8marks

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Do not attempt Question 2 if you have completed Question 1.

Question 2 (20marks)RefertoDocumentBonpage2oftheinsert.

a. Identifyfromthedocumenttwo intentionsstatedbyBatmaninreachingagreementwiththeAboriginalpeopleofthePortPhillipDistrict. 2marks

b. IdentifyandexplaintwopiecesofevidencethatBatmanclaimsdemonstratethattheAboriginal‘chiefs’understood,andwerewillingparticipantsin,hisproposal. 4marks

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c. TowhatextentwasthisexchangebetweenEuropeansettlersandAboriginalpeopletypicalofthemannerinwhichEuropeansettlersacquiredlandinthePortPhillipDistrict/colonyofVictoriaupto1860?

Useevidencetosupportyourresponse. 6marks

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d. EvaluatetheextenttowhichthelossoflandhadthemostharmfulimpactontheAboriginalpeopleinthePortPhillipDistrict/colonyofVictoriaupto1860.

Useevidencetosupportyourresponse. 8marks

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Question 3(20marks)a. Identifyandexplaintwo argumentsmadeagainsttheproposedFederationoftheAustralian

coloniesbetween1888and1900. 4marks

SECTION B

Instructions for Section BSectionBisbasedonUnit3Outcome2:Nation,raceandcitizen1888–1914.Answerallpartsofthissection.Youmustsupportyourviewswithspecificinformationandevidence.

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b. Discusstowhatextenttheemergenceofnationalistthemesinareassuchasart,writingandsymbolspromotedavisionofnationhoodbetween1888and1914.

Useevidencetosupportyourresponse. 6marks

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c. Towhatextentweretheeconomicandindustrialrelationsissues,whichwereprominentinthecoloniesinthe1890s,resolvedinAustraliabetween1901and1914?

Useevidencetosupportyourresponse. 10marks

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SECTION C – continued

Question 4 (20marks)‘DuringthecourseofWorldWarI,AustralianswereunitedbytheactionsoftheANZACforcesatGallipoli.’

Towhatextentdoyouagreewiththisstatement?

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Question 5 (20marks)‘Despitemucheconomichardship,theperiodoftheDepressionprovidedsomepositiveandupliftingexperiencesthatassistedsocialcohesion.’

Towhatextentdoyouagreewiththisstatement?

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Question 6 (20marks)‘DuringWorldWarII,theresponseofPrimeMinisterJohnCurtinandhisgovernmenttothethreatofJapaneseinvasionchallengedoldcertaintiesandbroughtaboutchange.’

Towhatextentdoyouagreewiththisstatement?

SECTION C

Instructions for Section CSectionCisbasedonUnit4Outcome1:Testingthenewnation1914–1950.Inessayform,answerQuestion4,Question5orQuestion6.

Question No.

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SECTION D – Question 7–continued

SECTION D

Instructions for Section DSectionDisbasedonUnit4Outcome2:DebatingAustralia’sfuture1960–2000.Thissectioncontainsfourrepresentations–A.,B.,C.andD. Youwillfindtheserepresentationsonpages3and4oftheinsert.Selectone representation.

Question 7 (20marks)Refertopages3and4oftheinsert.Analyseone oftherepresentationsintheinsert.Yourresponseshouldinclude:• identificationoftheattitudesreflectedintherepresentation.Useevidencefromthe

representationtosupportyourcomments. 4marks

• evaluationofthedegreetowhichtherepresentationreflectsattitudesabouttheissuesthatyouhavestudiedatthatparticularpointintime. 8marks

• analysisofchangingattitudesinrelationtothisissue.Tosupportyourcomments,useevidencefromtheotherpointintimethatyouhavestudied. 8marks

A.,B.,C. orD.

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Clearly number all responses in this space.

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Ananswerbookisavailablefromthesupervisorifyouneedextrapapertocompleteyouranswer.Pleaseensureyouwriteyourstudent numberinthespaceprovidedonthefrontcoveroftheanswerbook.At the end of the examination, place the answer book inside the front cover of this question and answer book.

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Insert for Sections A and DPlease remove the insert from the centre of this book.The insert is to be used for:•  Section A: Question 1, Document A or Question 2, Document B•  Section D, Question 7: Representation A., B., C. or D.

SECTION A

Section A is based on Unit 3 Outcome 1: A new land: Port Phillip District/colony of Victoria 1830–1860.Choose either Question 1 or Question 2.

Question 1, Document A

Source: ST Gill, City of Melbourne from base of Emerald Hill 1855,  lithograph, 15 × 20.5 cm; State Library of Victoria 

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Question 2, Document BLetter from John Batman to Governor Arthur, the Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemens Land Hobart Town, 25 June 1835

I joined this tribe about twelve o’clock, and staid1 with them until about twelve o’clock the next day, during which time I fully explained to them that the object of my visit was to purchase from them a tract2 of their country, that I intended to settle amongst them … and I also proposed to pay them an annual tribute3 as a compensation for the enjoyment of the land.The chiefs appeared most fully to comprehend my proposals … I then explained to them the boundaries of the land which I wished to purchase, and which are defined by hills, to which they have affixed4 native names …On the next day the chiefs proceeded with me to the boundaries, and they marked, with their own native marks, the trees at the corners of the boundaries, and they also gave me their own private mark, which is kept sacred by them …After the boundaries had been thus marked and described, I filled up as accurately as I could define it, the land agreed to be purchased by me from the chiefs, and the deed5, when thus filled up, was most carefully read over and explained to them by the two interpreters, so that they most fully comprehended its purport6 and effect. I then filled up two other parts of the deed so as to make it in triplicate7, and the three principal chiefs and five of the subordinate chiefs then executed each of the deeds, each part being separately read over, and they each delivered to me a piece of the soil for the purpose of putting me in possession thereof, I understanding that it was a form by which they delivered to me the tract of land.

Source: J Bonwick, John Batman, the Founder of Victoria, Samuel Mullen, Melbourne, 1867, pp. 24 and 25

1staid – stayed2tract – section3tribute – payment4affixed – attached5deed – legal document6purport – meaning7triplicate – a set of three copies

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SECTION D

Question 7Section D is based on Unit 4 Outcome 2: Debating Australia’s future 1960–2000.Choose one of the representations (A., B., C. or D.) to answer Question 7. Make sure that you read the instructions on page 16 of the question and answer book before you begin to analyse the representation that you have chosen.

A. Attitudes to Indigenous rights

ACSPA campaign leaflet, c. 1967 Source: National Library of Australia, FCAATSI, Christophers papers, MS 7992

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B. Attitudes to the Vietnam War

ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) photograph of Moratorium March in Canberra, 18 September 1970

Source: National Archives of Australia, A9626, 112, 2002/05136900

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C. Attitudes to the environment

Photograph of banner installation and welcoming party, January 1983 Source: Alice Hungerford, UpRiver: Untold stories of the Franklin River activists, UpRiver Mob, 2013, p. viii

ORD. Attitudes to immigration

Cartoon by Peter Nicholson; www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au Source: The Age, 6 June 1979

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