The Museum of Australian Democracy is pleased to sponsor a special category in this year’s challenge ‘Australian Democracy: Defining Moments’. Students from years 5-12 are invited to research and create an entry on an important milestone in Australia’s democracy. The National History Challenge invites students to be historians-researching and interpreting the past.

Our National History Challenge web page provides details of this year’s category, along with some suggested starting points for researchers, including our Exploring Democracy website, which places many of Australia’s defining moments in time and space.

Organised by the History Teachers Association of Australia, the National History Challenge is a research-based competition that encourages students to use research and inquiry based learning to discover more about Australia and its past. Students are the historians-they can investigate their community, explore their own and their family’s past, explore major events that have taught Australia, as a nation, new ideas or theories. The Challenge encourages inquiry based learning, the use of primary and secondary sources and offers a variety of presentation styles that can cater to individual learning styles.

Full competition information including word length, presentation, referencing and registration is available from the National History Challenge website.