VCE PoliticsPractice Examination 14

This paper covers

• Unit 3 AoS1 global issue: global economic instability via the 2025 US reciprocal tariff shock, rare-earth/critical-mineral supply chain weaponisation, IMF/WTO growth downgrades, and the effectiveness of G20/IMF/WTO/TNC responses
• Unit 3 AoS2 contemporary crisis: mass movement of people via the Sudanese civil war (SAF-RSF, El Fasher, record IDP/refugee figures) and the Rohingya displacement in Bangladesh, competing actor perspectives, consequences, and response effectiveness amid a global humanitarian funding collapse
• Unit 4 AoS1 Indo-Pacific state: Japan under the Takaichi government (national interests, hard/soft/sharp/smart power, record FY2026 defence budget, Rapidus/semiconductor economic security, internal demographic/fiscal constraints, external China/Taiwan/North Korea challenges)
• Unit 4 AoS2 Australia in the Indo-Pacific (compulsory): AUKUS Pillars I and II, the 2026 National Defence Strategy, the May 2026 Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting (Critical Minerals Framework, Indo-Pacific Maritime Surveillance Collaboration), source-based stimulus analysis
• Section C integration essays synthesising Unit 3 (global economic instability plus mass movement of people) and Unit 4 (Japan plus Australia) with explicit use of core political concepts and contemporary dated evidence

Students are permitted to bring into the examination the materials normally allowed for this subject. Answer all questions in the spaces provided.

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