The programs offered are designed to reflect the curriculum requirements and help teachers achieve necessary outcomes in Active Citizenship and Natural and Social Systems learning areas. Programs are suited to:
- upper primary school students
- lower secondary school students
- Politics and Legal Studies students, years 11-12
- student teachers
- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) students
- students with disability
- community groups, including CALD groups.
State Government Program
Suitable for upper primary school students, or young adults with disability.
Topics covered include:
- three levels of Government and their responsibilities
- two houses of WA State Parliament
- polling places
- enrolment
- ballot papers for Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council and how these are completed
- formality of votes
- preferential voting and counting.
Federal Government Program
Suitable for lower secondary school students years 8-10, or adapted for younger students on request.
Topics covered include:
- three levels of Government and their responsibilities
- two Houses of Parliament – both State and Federal
- compulsory voting
- voting milestones
- polling places
- enrolment
- ballot papers for House of Representatives and the Senate and how these are completed.
- formality of votes
- preferential voting and counting.
Politics and Legal Studies Program
Suitable for year 11 and 12 students studying Politics and Legal Studies.
Topics covered include:
- arguments for and against compulsory voting
- comparison of the first-past-the-post, preferential and proportional representation systems of voting
- enrolment
- Double Majority (for Constitutional referendums)
- importance of using your vote correctly
- milestones in Australian electoral history.