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Fixing student attendance without cutting welfare payments; a much cheaper, more effective way
02/12/2011
Time for a High Expectations Relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia
19/10/2011
Keynote Address 18 October 2011 Strong Start Bright Futures Conference, Darwin Ladies and Gentlemen let me start today by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land here. I want to use this time this morning to offer some points upon which to reflect, and to challenge current views and perceptions about the nature of the [...]
Indigenous policy: be compassionate, be brave
11/10/2011
Taken from ‘THE CONVERSATION’ 06/10/2011 Why do we keep spending billions of dollars in Indigenous communities with so few results? It’s because we don’t have a high expectations relationship between both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Setting up this relationship isn’t as hard as you might think. There are some profoundly fundamental aspects of such a [...]
Effective Indigenous policy reform: closing the right gap
15/08/2011
From ‘The Conversation’ 15/08/2011 – http://theconversation.edu.au/effective-indigenous-policy-reform-closing-the-right-gap-2743 AFTER THE INTERVENTION: Chris Sarra from the Queensland University of Technology says white Australia must address its relationship with Indigenous people to truly close the gap. There has never seriously been a high expectations relationship in which the humanity of Indigenous Australians is acknowledged. From the very outset colonisers [...]
Transformational Technology
08/08/2011
The use of technology in our education space is an area that is so exciting, so unpredictable, and in every way limited only by our imagination. I’ve recently joined the many other people challenging the status quo and started using an iPad with my work. Here at the Institute we have been fortunate enough to [...]
COAG report on Indigenous education
14/06/2011
The future of schooling – an expectations game?
06/06/2011
Article in The Australian, 6 June 2011; IBM Shaping Our Future It is an exciting to contemplate the future of schooling in Australia because in so doing we are reflecting on both the future of our children and our nation. Technology as always, has delivered dramatic change to our society and the way we engage [...]
Acknowledgement of Country: Costs nothing but worth so much
03/06/2011
It was disapointing to see the Victorian Premier and others dismiss the symbolism of acknowledgements of country as unimportant. I have been to New Zealand several times now and on every occasion I have been with a delegation of non-Indigenous Australians who say they are embarrassed at how New Zealand society can do so well [...]
