Kununurra Public Hearing - 17 May 1999
Witnesses giving evidence in Kununurra were
- Alan McLaren,
Principal, Kununurra District High School: Early childhood development;
primary to secondary transition; Indigenous school participation rates;
curriculum offerings; Barramundi school; inter-agency support; travel
inequities; School of Isolated and Distance Education; Aboriginal hostel
in Kununurra; technology; staffing profile; teacher incentives; Indigenous
students and English language; literacy funding; Indigenous language
learning; disability; Aboriginal & Islander Education Workers; Aboriginal
Student Support and Parent Awareness program; racism; attendance rates;
Aboriginal liaison officer
- Ian Trust, Chairperson,
Wunan Council; Helen Wright, East Kimberley Aboriginal Education and
Training Committee; John Rowe, Manager of Kimberley Work Training, ATSIC
Wunan Council for the East Kimberley: Aboriginal literacy and numeracy
rates; Indigenous school age demographics in the Kimberley region; shortfall
in provision of education to Indigenous children; Indigenous staffing
rates in schools; school amalgamation; educational standards and aspirations;
education levels; the effect of the social context on educational outcomes;
Aboriginal trainees; competing interests between employment and community
resources; Indigenous groups and English language; Funding for educational
outcomes; Indigenous teacher training; pre-school; conflict resolution
and self esteem; no provision of education; secondary provision
- John Polglase
and Sister Maryanne, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School: Disability;
disability and funding arrangements; transition and school attendance;
Indigenous students and mainstream education; community liaison; Abstudy;
Culturally appropriate education; problems with Abstudy; recommendations;
- Anne Wright, President,
Parent's and Citizen's Association (P&C) at Kununurra District High
School and Peter Albin, Chairperson, Secondary Steering Committee (a
Sub-Committee of the P&C Committee): Provision of senior secondary schooling;
transport subsidies for some School of Isolated and Distance Education
students; curriculum provision and staffing; special needs and gifted
children; the 'Super School' concept; race relations; Parents' and Citizens'
association; Indigenous language learning
- Daniel Suggit,
Kununurra Youth Services Inc.: traditional communities of the Kununurra
region; Western education systems and Indigenous students
- John, Aboriginal Elder: Health education
