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Review of the Australian Curriculum

The new Australian Curriculum website, hosting the updated and approved Australian Curriculum, Version 9.0, has been launched. The specially built website,  has been designed with teachers for teachers and is one of the few in the world that has digitised the curriculum.

Endorsement of the Australian Curriculum, Version 9.0, followed a review undertaken in 2020/2021. ACARA worked with key education stakeholders and groups to define the approach and scope of the review. This work informed the review's Terms of reference (PDF 94 kb).

The review was also supported by our  which benchmarked the Australian Curriculum against the curricula of Singapore, Finland, British Columbia and New Zealand, and we sought feedback from state and territory jurisdictions through our annual monitoring process. 

ACARA found the Australian Curriculum (Version 8.4) is consistent with some of the best curricula internationally and is well-regarded by teachers across the country but that it needed refining, updating and ‘decluttering’ to better support teachers.

Public consultation

ACARA held a 10-week public consultation process from April to July 2021. This was the first time the public had the opportunity to review and comment upon the curriculum in its entirety.  

Feedback received from parents, teachers, students and principals, as well as, jurisdictions, academics, subject associations, and the general public was considered in finalising the curriculum.

In addition, primary teachers and experts reviewed the primary years content and 47 volunteer primary schools and their teachers tested the consultation draft primary curriculum as part of a Primary School Intensive Engagement Project.

As part of the review process ACARA engaged the Institute for Social Science Research at The University of Queensland to independently analyse the qualitative and quantitative data gathered via the three feedback channels; online surveys, email submissions and jurisdiction responses.

To access the current Australian Curriculum Version 8.4, visit the . 

The updated version 9.0 curriculum is available on the  

Consultation reports

Read consultation reports authored by The University of Queensland.

• English (PDF 2.8 MB)
• Mathematics (PDF 2.9 MB) 
• Science (PDF 3.1 MB)
• Humanities and Social Sciences (PDF 7.2 MB)
• The Arts (PDF 8.6 MB)
• Technologies (PDF 3.8 MB)
• Health and Physical Education (PDF 2.6 MB) 
• Languages
  • Languages – Phase 1 (Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese) (PDF 5.1 MB)
  • Languages – Phase 2 (German, Indonesian, Korean, Modern Greek, Spanish) (PDF 1.4 MB)
  • Languages – Phase 3 (Arabic, Hindi, Turkish and Vietnamese) (PDF 1.1 MB)
• General capabilities (PDF 1.6 MB)
• Cross-curriculum priorities (PDF 1.8 MB)

More information

• Terms of reference of the review (PDF 94 KB), which define the approach and scope of the review of the F–10 Australian Curriculum.
• Shape of the Australian Curriculum paper (PDF 256 KB), which provides background to the development of the first Australian Curriculum and sets out the rationale, dimensions and structure of the Australian Curriculum. It has been updated to reflect the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration (December 2019) and the aims for the current review.
• ACARA’s media release (PDF 168 KB)