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
Keep readingNew 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, criminal justice and health. In July last year, Yoorrook handed down its final report on education. What struck her about the findings was how familiar they were. The National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People, Sue-Anne Hunter, was on…
Keep readingNew 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 external links designed to interrogate and embed the concepts, ideas, questions, themes and knowledge presented in the video. Visit the You Can Teach That website for the full series including brilliant videos and resources from First Nations scholars and leaders !
Keep readingPanel 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 should teachers, students and researchers in this field navigate questions around complicity, responsibility, and justice? We will consider these questions in comparative transnational contexts including Australia, Canada, South Africa, the Nordic countries and more, building upon ideas Matt and James explore in their new book Education…
Keep readingHey History! Podcast
Matthew was recently interviewed about truth-telling in Australian history education, his submission to the Yoorrook Justice Commission, and his research into truth-telling commissions in Australia and overseas, for the Hey History! kids podcast. ➡️Stay tuned for new episodes soon, for kids and teachers! https://lnkd.in/ggDBJ5MV
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