Version 9.0 is the current Australian Curriculum. Education ministers endorsed it in April 2022 as a revision of Version 8.4, and schools have been moving onto it in stages ever since — which is why a staffroom can contain teachers planning from three different documents at once. This page explains what actually changed, what stayed the same, and which document applies in your state.
The stated goal of the revision was to declutter. Version 8.4 had accumulated more content than could be taught well in the time available, so the number of content descriptions was reduced — most noticeably in primary — and the survivors were rewritten to be more specific about what students should know and do.
The second change matters more day to day: achievement standards were rewritten to align to the content descriptions. Under 8.4 it was common to find a standard that assessed something the content descriptions never asked you to teach. In 9.0 the two are meant to read as one document, which makes reporting against a standard a lot less like interpretation.
The structure teachers navigate — eight learning areas, seven general capabilities, three cross-curriculum priorities — carried over. The general capabilities were renamed and tidied rather than replaced; the most visible change is that ICT Capability became Digital Literacy.
English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS), The Arts, Technologies, Health and Physical Education, and Languages. HASS is taught as one subject from Foundation to Year 6, then splits into Civics and Citizenship, Economics and Business, Geography and History across Years 7 to 10. The Arts covers five distinct subjects — Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music and Visual Arts — and Technologies covers two, Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies.
Two learning areas saw the most substantive rewrites. Mathematics moved from three combined strands to six — Number, Algebra, Measurement, Space, Statistics and Probability — with mathematical processes embedded in the content rather than sitting beside it as separate proficiency strands. English sharpened its early-years content, making the phonics and phonemic awareness expectations in Foundation to Year 2 explicit rather than implied.
The seven general capabilities are Literacy, Numeracy, Digital Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social capability, Ethical Understanding and Intercultural Understanding. The three cross-curriculum priorities are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures; Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia; and Sustainability.
Neither set is taught as a standalone subject — both are meant to be evidenced through learning-area content, which is why a well-built unit tags them rather than bolting on a separate lesson.
This is where planning gets fiddly. Version 9.0 is a national document, but curriculum is a state responsibility, so what you are actually accountable to depends on where you teach.
New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia run genuinely distinct syllabuses. They are aligned to the Australian Curriculum in substance, but the codes, wording and sequencing differ enough that a resource labelled with an ACARA code will not map cleanly onto a NESA outcome or a Victorian Curriculum 2.0 content description. That is why EduSellers publishes separate state editions rather than relabelling one national file.
Every resource below is written against Version 9.0 content descriptions by a verified Australian educator.
Version 9.0 is the revised Australian Curriculum endorsed by education ministers in April 2022, replacing Version 8.4. The revision aimed to declutter the curriculum — cutting the number of content descriptions, particularly in primary — and to make achievement standards line up more clearly with the content teachers actually teach.
English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, The Arts, Technologies, Health and Physical Education, and Languages. Humanities and Social Sciences is taught as a combined subject in Foundation to Year 6 and splits into Civics and Citizenship, Economics and Business, Geography and History in Years 7 to 10.
Version 9.0 has seven general capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, Digital Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social capability, Ethical Understanding and Intercultural Understanding. The three cross-curriculum priorities are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures; Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia; and Sustainability.
Mathematics moved from three combined strands to six: Number, Algebra, Measurement, Space, Statistics and Probability. Mathematical processes such as reasoning, modelling and problem-solving are embedded in the content descriptions rather than sitting alongside them as separate proficiency strands.
No. Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and the Northern Territory deliver the Australian Curriculum directly. New South Wales teaches NESA syllabuses on its own reform timeline, Victoria teaches the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0, and Western Australia teaches the Western Australian Curriculum through the SCSA. All three are aligned to the Australian Curriculum but the wording, codes and sequencing differ.
Yes. The 4,297 resources on EduSellers are written against Version 9.0 content descriptions, with separate state editions for the jurisdictions whose syllabus wording differs.
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