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As NAIDOC Week marks 50 years, let’s reflect on almost a century of ‘deadly education’
To celebrate 50 years of NAIDOC, Sue-Anne Hunter National Commission for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People and I reflected on the long history of First Nations advocacy for equality, truth, and self-determination in education: https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026/07/05/naidoc-week-education
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New piece in Pursuit with Sue-Anne Hunter and Beth Marsden
The truth about First Nations children and schooling has been told, retold and ignored Dr Beth Marsden Dr Matthew Keynes and Sue-Anne Hunter Content warning Sue-Anne Hunter, one of the authors of this article, served as a Commissioner on the Yoorrook Justice Commission, Australia’s first formal truth-telling body and led its work on child protection,…
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New Teacher Resource on Truth-Telling
I’m excited to share this interview and teacher resource for the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE) You Can Teach That: Teaching First Nations Perspectives series! In the interview, I discuss the connection between truth-telling commissions, including the Yoorrook Justice Commission, and education. The accompanying teacher resource includes activities, prompts, lesson ideas and…
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Panel Discussion: Truth-Telling, Redress and Reconciliation in Education: Global Perspectives, 26 June
Registrations Open! Join panellists Dr. Matthew R. Keynes, James Miles, Anna Clark, Lucy Jongebloed, and Aleryk Fricker for a discussion of the ‘big questions’ raised in the growing relationship between historical justice and education. How can education reckon with and work to repair historical injustices? How does truth-telling and redress challenge the purposes of history, humanities, and social studies education? How…
Dr. Matthew R. Keynes 