# Capture — viewed as an invasion

- **Claim filed:** “Contact after the First Fleet was viewed by First Nations Australians as an invasion.”
- **Who:** Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority
- **URL:** https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/content/dam/en/curriculum/ac-version-9/downloads/humanities-and-social-sciences/hass-f-6/humanities-and-social-sciences-hass-f-6-scope-and-sequence-v9.docx
- **Date on page:** Version 9 endorsed 2022-04-01
- **Publisher:** ACARA
- **Captured:** 2026-08-16
- **Method:** official scope-and-sequence `.docx` (`acara-scope-and-sequence.docx`); SMH report of the draft (`smh-2021-04-29.html`); unofficial learning-map mirror of the code (`learningmap-ac9hs4k04.html`)

## Verbatim (ACARA v9, Year 4 History, AC9HS4K04)

> the effects of contact with other people on First Nations Australians and their Countries/Places following the arrival of the First Fleet and how this was viewed by First Nations Australians as an invasion

SMH, 29 April 2021, on the draft:

> School students across the country will be taught that First Nations Australians experienced European colonisation as an invasion

The wording is in the live v9 scope-and-sequence file.

## The other meter

The Conversation, 22 June 2021: teaching how First Nations Australians “experienced colonisation” is “not necessarily a direct influence of critical race theory.”

Year 9 elaborations (later band) invite discussion of why “invasion”, “colonisation” and “settlement” remain contested. Year 4’s content description does not.

IPA Schools Program (`../2021/not-in-the-curriculum/ipa-vision.html`): HASS “carries undertones of Critical Race Theory.” Locator, not the slogan.

## What this file does not do

It does not file “there was no frontier conflict” or “Mabo was a fiction.” It files “invasion” as Year 4 essential knowledge against the same curriculum’s later concession that the word is contested.