# Optional authentic local source and cultural-authority gate

All lessons work without a real object, personal interview, site plan or field visit. For a real object-source extension, a school first checks ownership, display and quotation permission; records provenance, date, exact speaker wording, any correction, consent scope and unknowns; and provides an equal non-disclosure route. A drawing does not establish an object's material, actual use or past. A real speaker's correction must not be published beyond the permission given. For an actual AC9HSFK03 inquiry, select an approved familiar place and obtain authentic evidence of its features, personal meaning, belonging and care under local policy. An object archive alone cannot satisfy this description. Hold the relevant knowledge claim until those sources are obtained.

For K01, a child's own family/birth/raised/relationship evidence needs a family-inclusive, private, approved source; no fiction substitutes. For K02, a genuinely significant event shared with family and others, how it was celebrated or commemorated, and permissioned evidence are needed; a school-only paper event is not automatic proof. A child may decline any personal account without penalty.

For AC9HSFK04, identify the school's actual Country/Place with locally recognised First Nations cultural authority and school protocol. Obtain approval for any local name, language, story, artwork, map, audio, teaching statement or public use. Record who has authority, exact scope, attribution, audience, review date and withdrawal route. Do not invent local knowledge or machine-translate a First Nations language. If authority/review is unavailable, **hold the relevant knowledge claim** and teach only generic source skills. Never ask a child to speak for a community.

Any real object image, personal quote, public display, interview or place observation follows school consent, safeguarding, access and site policies. The fictional pack and verifier give no such permission.

**ICIP boundary:** The pack supplies no First Nations cultural material. ACARA’s general licence does not give a cultural permission pathway for Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP). Before use or commercial reuse of any such material, seek free, prior and informed consent from the recognised First Peoples owners, negotiate benefit sharing and fair payment where appropriate, attribute ownership and review cultural integrity under the local authority’s protocols. Hold use and claims when scope or authority is unresolved.