2021 National Indigenous Education and Boarding Symposium

The Next 10 Years: Are We Ready?
IEBA is very excited to announce that our 4th national Symposium will be during National Reconciliation Week in Cairns from 2-4 June 2021.This is a hybrid event that will allow you to participate in person, or from your work, home or anywhere online.

The theme of The Next 10 Years: Are We Ready? focuses on the need for all schools with Indigenous students to understand the ambitions of Indigenous voices in the Closing the Gap targets, and the need to plan and act to achieve these goals.

The three streams of exploration at the Symposium are:

Indigenous Voices – beyond the Uluru Statement from the Heart providing a way for Indigenous Australians to have input on matters that are important to improve their lives.
Closing the Gap - the new target seeks 96 per cent of students attaining year 12 by 2031.
Reconciliation - promoting relationships, respect and trust between the wider Australian community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The program includes

Opening Address by The Hon Ken Wyatt AM MP
Indigenous Voices Keynote - Thomas Mayor, Torres Strait Islander, author, activist and unionist
Closing the Gap Keynote - Donnella Mills, Chair of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
The Way Forward Keynote - Richard Stewart, Manager –Transition Support Service, Queensland Department of Education
Reconciliation in Education Keynote - Zoe Cassim, Reconciliation Australia
and much more, full program on our website.

To participate in the Symposium you will have the choice of attending in-person in Cairns or participating on-line. In-person tickets are for all 3 days including meals, Welcome Reception and Symposium Dinner. Online tickets can be purchased for individual sessions or as a bundle of multiple sessions.

Selected sessions will be live-streamed. This includes two free sessions and four sessions that require a purchased ticket. A discount is offered for purchasing access to all four paid sessions in one transaction.

All delegates will have access to the recordings after the event and the access links to tune-in live or later will be distributed via email within a week of the event commencing.

Payment options include credit card on-line or during the online booking process you can request an' Invoice to Pay' and receive that instantly. Tickets will follow via email after the payment has been received.

We look forward to you joining us at the Colonial Club Cairns Resort or anywhere online.

Symposium Program