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Judgment: Cases That Changed Australia takes viewers inside the High Court of Australia, where ordinary citizens challenge the laws that define the nation. Across four landmark cases – Love, Mabo, We Will Decide and Vote – personal battles become constitutional turning points.
The High Court is where Australia answers its hardest questions. Here, the country’s most powerful legal minds confront cases that test the meaning of love, land, citizenship, democracy and belonging. Behind the bench, the Justices wrestle with principles that impact people’s lives and will shape the nation’s future. Before them stand citizens willing to take great risks to be heard.
Judgment reveals not only the legal reasoning behind these decisions, but the courage, strategy and conviction that drive them. It shows how constitutional law is not abstract doctrine but lived experience: how arguments in a courtroom reverberate far beyond it.
At its core, Judgment asks a simple but important question: how has the High Court shaped a modern Australia?
Curriculum Links
Judgment: Cases That Changed Australia is relevant to students in Years 9-12 in the following learning areas:
- English
- Media/Film Studies
- History (Australian)
- Civics and Citizenship
It can also be linked to the General capabilities:
- Literacy
- Critical and Creative Thinking
- Personal and Social Capability
- Ethical Understanding
- Intercultural understanding
- In addition to the Cross-curriculum priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
Key themes:
- The High Court of Australia
- Australian Constitution
- Refugees and indefinite detention
- The electoral roll and citizens’ right to vote
- Legalisation of same sex relationships and marriage
- Terra Nullius, Mabo, land rights and native title
