Poverty and Wealth will look at aspects of Australia’s Economy and Business sectors. How do we wish to create a healthy economy that creates wealth? What are the factors that create poverty and how do we address these issues as a society?

Areas to be covered will include: 

• The Australian Economy
• Measuring economic success or failure
• Participation in the economy
• Employment unemployment
• Living standards
• Government Policy
• World Trends
• The world of business.
• Innovation and invention.
• Making Wealth.

Learning Tasks

• An Investigation of an issue
• A formal essay
• An exam

Links to VCE Studies

This unit will develop skills and background knowledge that can be extended in the following VCE subjects:

• Economics
• History
• Legal Studies

Contact Teacher - David Finlayson