Equip your IB History HL students with this comprehensive 20-slide PowerPoint on the impact of colonization in Australia and New Zealand to c.1900. Fully aligned with the new IB DP History curriculum (first assessment 2028), this resource systematically covers all four specified content areas: European immigration and settlement, land distribution with squatters and Selection Acts, social and economic impact of the gold rushes (1850–1870), and growth of cities and emergence of the labour movement. Designed for Regional Study 4: Indigenous Societies and National Identity in Australia and New Zealand (c.1770–2020), this PPT develops the core Paper 3 skills of understanding arguments, evaluating diverse perspectives, and making reasoned judgements.

Content Coverage:

European immigration: First Fleet (1788), terra nullius, Treaty of Waitangi (1840), key contrast between Australia and NZ

Colonization as dispossession: land seizure, displacement, population collapse, genocide

Indigenous agency: Frontier Wars, New Zealand Wars, Māori political participation (1868 vote)

Squatters and selectors: illegal occupation, Selection Acts (Robertson Land Acts 1861, Victorian Acts 1860–1869)

Land in New Zealand: Treaty recognition but profound dispossession; contrasting political outcomes

Gold rushes: Australia (1851) – Victoria produced one-third of world’s gold; NZ (1857) – Aorere, Otago, Thames

Gold rush impact on Aboriginal peoples: devastation, participation, neglected historiography

Gold rush impact on Māori: economic success, communal disruption, Crown administration

Urbanization and labour movement: colonial cities, Labor Leagues, early suffrage

Labour movement and Indigenous rights: exclusion vs. limited inclusion (Māori vote 1868)

National identity built on exclusion: “fair go” ethos, Indigenous peoples excluded from narrative

Suitable for: IB DP History HL, Paper 3, Regional Study 4: Asia and Oceania
Curriculum alignment: New IB History Guide (first teaching 2026, first assessment 2028)