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Units 3 and 4 Australian History
Practice Exam Question and Answer Booklet
Duration: 15 minutes reading time, 2 hours writing time
Structure of book:
Section
Number of questions
A
B
C
D
2
1
3
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Number of questions to
be answered
1
1
1
1
Total
Number of marks
20
20
20
20
80
Students are permitted to bring into the examination room: pens, pencils, highlighters, erasers and
rulers.
Students are not permitted to bring into the examination room: blank sheets of paper and/or white
out liquid/tape.
No calculator is allowed in this examination.
Materials supplied:
 This question and answer booklet of 25 pages.
Instructions:
 You must complete all questions of the examination.
 Write all your answers in the spaces provided in this booklet.
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Section A
Instructions
Section A contains two documents – Document A and Document B. For Question 1 you are to answer
all questions for either Document A or Document B.
The question is based on Unit 3 Outcome 1: A new land: Port Phillip District/Colony of Victoria 18301860.
Question 1
Answer the questions that follow one of the following documents (Document A or Document B).
Document A
“…I went on shore to look at the land, which appeared beautiful, with scarcely any timber on. On my
landing I found the hills of a most superior description- beyond my most sanguine expectations. The land
excellent and very rich- and light black soil, covered with kangaroo grass two feet high, and as thick as it
could stand. Good hay could be made, and in any quantity. The trees not more than six to the acre, and
those small sheoak and wattle. I never saw anything equal to the land in my life.”
– Extract from John Batman’s Journal, dated Saturday 30 May 1835.
a. Identify from the document two factors influencing Batman’s motivation to settle in Australia.
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b. Identify a significant individual or group that settled in Port Phillip between 1830 and 1860, and
explain their role in the transferral of European values to the Colony.
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c. To what extent is Batman’s motivation for settlement representative of other settlers who came
to Port Phillip between 1830 and 1860?
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d. To what extent did the new society at Port Phillip resemble Britain in terms of the values of
settlers from ‘the mother country’?
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8 marks
Total: 20 marks
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Do not attempt Document B if you have completed the questions for Document A.
Document B
“Next morning nine men set out after the Blacks, five on horses and four on foot… They were on the
opposite side of a creek, and the first man that crossed the creek, was speared through the calf of the
leg and pinned to the ground. His friends followed him and soon dispatched the black fellow… The
Protector of Aborigines was within 6 miles at the time the affray took place, and his report (collected
among the natives themselves) is that forty-one have been killed. The bodies were all removed and put
out of sight by the natives- a thing the never fail to do… They are only seventy miles distant from here,
but neither them nor I will ever be troubled with Blacks again. They may, however, be obliged to go to
Sydney to stand their trial for murder but it will be a mere form. They must be acquitted… I could not
stand the thought of murdering them (but)… I believe it impossible to take up a new run without doing
so.”
- Extract from the journals of Niel Black, 1840.
a. Identify two examples from the document of violence and prejudice directed towards Aborigines
by the settlers of Port Phillip.
2 marks
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b. Discuss the attitudes towards Aborigines of two individuals and/or groups who interacted with
Aboriginal people in Port Phillip between 1830 and 1860.
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c. Discuss the extent to which the impact of settlement on Aborigines portrayed in this document
was typical of the time.
6 marks
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d. Discuss in what ways and to what extent the responses to settlement by Aboriginal people was
varied.
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8 marks
Total: 20 marks
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Section B
Instructions
Answer the following questions relating to Unit 3, Outcome 2: Nation, race and citizen 1888-1914.
In each case you must support your views with specific information and evidence.
Question 2
a. Explain two benefits of Federation for Australian women.
4 marks
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b.
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Discuss the extent to which the spirit of nationalism contributed to the movement towards
Federation.
6 marks
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Explain how new legislation passed between 1900 and 1914 defined who could, and could not,
receive the benefits and share the responsibilities of Australian citizenship.
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10 marks
Total: 20 marks
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Section C
Instructions
In essay form answer either A, B or C. for Question 3. This question is based on Unit 4 Outcome 1:
Testing the new nation 1914-1950.
Question 3
A. ‘Despite significant debate concerning the war effort, World War I was a largely unifying experience
for Australia.’
To what extent do you agree with this statement?
B. ‘Despite its negative effects, the Depression was a unifying rather than divisive force in Australian
society.’
To what extent do you agree with this statement?
C. ‘For some groups within Australia, World War II provided significant opportunity for social change.’
To what extent do you agree with this statement?
Question:
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20 marks
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Section D
Instructions
Remove the insert from the end of this booklet before answering this section.
Analyse one of the representations, A, B, C or D. This question is based on Unit 4, Outcome 2:
Debating Australia’s Future 1960-2000.
Question 4
Analyse one of the documents, commentaries or quotations in the insert relating to Unit 4, Outcome 2:
Debating Australia’s future 1960-2000.
Your response should include:
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identification of the attitudes reflected in the representation. Use evidence from the
representation to support your comments
evaluation of the degree to which the representation reflects attitudes about the issues that you
have studied at that particular point in time
analysis of changing attitudes in relation to this issue. To support your comments, use evidence
from the other point in time that you have studied.
4 + 8 + 8 = 20 marks
Question:
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Insert for Section D
A: Attitudes to Indigenous rights
Erection of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, July 1972
B: Attitudes to the Vietnam War
“Our objective should be ... to achieve such an habitual closeness of relations with the United States and
sense of mutual alliance that in our time and need, after we have shown all reasonable restraint and good
sense, the United States would have little option but to respond as we would want.' 'The problem of
Vietnam is one, it seems, where we could ... pick up a lot of credit with the United States, for this
problem is one to which the United States is deeply committed and in which it genuinely feels it is
carrying too much of the load, not so much the physical load the bulk of which the United States is
prepared to bear, as the moral load.”
Allan Renouf, Australian Ambassador in Washington, 1965
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C: Attitudes to the environment
Franklin River Dam protests in Hobart in 1981, Sydney Morning Herald.
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D: Attitudes to immigration
Sir Horace, in a letter to The Times, said his regard for Australia’s policy increased when he saw the
problems some governments had brought on their own people and on the migrants they had taken
in…”practically every country has in some form a similar migration policy to that which we have in
Australia – a restrictive migration policy. We in Australia are anxious that migrants entering our country
can be assimilated into our population within a reasonable time. This we think is of paramount
importance both for the happiness and wellbeing of the migrants themselves and for the Australian
nation as a whole.”
Adapted from The Canberra Times, 7 March 1968.
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