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Time Event Venue Topic8.00am Registration Mal Nairn
AuditoriumRegistrationsTea and coffee
8.30am Welcome to CountryLarrakia ManDr Curtis Roman
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Welcome and acknowledgements.Welcome to Country by Larrakia representative
8.45am Master of CeremonyKevin Kropinyeri & Naomi BonsonSetting the Conference Scene Associate Prof Gary Fry
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House-keeping, Conference objectives, Conference program,Conference Networking Dinner,Conference Performances
9.00am Opening AddressProfessor Simon MaddocksVice Chancellor, Charles Darwin University
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Charles Darwin University’s Commitments to NT Indigenous Advancement: Engagement through increased access and service supports, high quality teaching, research and partnerships
9.15am PerformanceSanderson Middle School Students
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Torres Strait Islander dance - Gumi Rangadh. A dance about connection, relationships and engagement
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Time Event Venue Topic9.30am Keynote speaker (#1)
A Voice of Remote Community Jonathan Nadji
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Managing Kakadu National Park Effectively in Partnership with Traditional Owners: what does effective engagement look like in achieving this goal?
9.50am Session 1: Break-out Workshops (Red 6)W/shop #1 Presenters
Yalmay Yunupingu, Bronwyn Rossingh &/or Djuwalpi Marika(Yirrkala)
Room # 1 Legitimate Learning through the Richness of Culturally Based Metaphors
W/shop #2 PresentersEvonne Mitjarrandi, Aaron Wuningmurra, Beulah Munyarryun, Delvine Munyarryun & Eliani Boton
Room # 2 Empowering our Future Leaders through Mentoring
W/shop #3 PresentersTristan Duggie NAIDOC 2016 Person of The Year Mungkarta Community
Room # 3 Issues Impacting NT Remote Communities: What is one common deeper issue: jobs and indigenous teachers
W/shop #4 PresentersProfessor Bob Boughton, Evaluator ‘Yes I can’ community literacy campaign(Literacy for Life Foundation), Deborah Durnan (Foundation Advisor), Tannia Edwards (‘Yes I can’ facilitator)
Room # 4 The Western NSW ‘Yes I Can’ campaign through the Literacy for Life Foundation: Overview, evaluation and local impact (working title)
10.20am Workshops Report-key points Rapporteurs
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Workshop report back session
10.30am Morning tea Mal Nairn Auditorium
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Time Event Venue Topic11.00am Keynote speaker (#2)
Remote Health ServicesPresenter-Linda Turner & Patricia Frank (Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation)
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Providing healthcare education the “Wumpararni” way.
11.20am Session 2: Break-out Workshops (Red 6)W/shop #5 Presenters
Associate Prof James Smith, Dean Yibarbuk, Millie Olcay & John Guenther
Room # 1 What do we know about remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community engagement in education settings? Implications for strategy development in tertiary education.
W/shop #6 PresentersCat Street and Valda Shannon
Room # 2 The Whole of Community Engagement Initiative Research and Evaluation Process: both ways together
W/shop #7 PresenterTerry Moore
Room # 3 Whole of Community Engagement as Productive Intercultural Partnership
W/shop #8 PresenterTracy Woodroffe, Lecturer and PhD candidate
Room # 4 Indigenous Leadership – Where?
11.50am Workshop Reports-key pointsRapporteurs
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Workshop report back session
12.00pm Guest PresentationAssociate Prof James Smith and the Whole of Community Engagement Team
Acknowledgement of WCE SERPA achievement
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Navigating community engagement within remote Indigenous further education contexts in the Northern Territory:Introduction and explanation of the aim of and objectives of the WCE initiative, and the respective challenges in navigating community engagement within remote Indigenous further education contexts
12.30pm Lunch Mal Nairn Auditorium
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Time Event Venue Topic1.00pm Keynote speaker (#3)
Territory FamiliesPresenter - Ken DaviesChief Executive Territory Families
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Territory Families - the Way Forward. Engaging with Indigenous Stakeholders.
1.20pm Session 3: Break-out workshops (Red 6)W/shop #9 Presenters
Gretchen Ennis, Lisa Watts and Jimmy Langdon
Room # 1 Understanding the formal and informal roles and high level community participation of Walpiri leaders of Yuendumu: implications and inequities
W/shop #10
PresentersKen Lechleitner, Vanessa Davis, Denise Foster, Aurelie Girard, Donna Stephens, Millie Olcay and James Smith
Room # 2 Self-determination and leadership in a remote Indigenous research context: The story of Research-Us
W/shop #11
PresentersBen van Gelderen et al
Room # 3 Growing our Own: engagement and partnerships
W/shop #12
PresenterAngurugu School
Room # 4 Remote School Attendance Strategy: The Angurugu Experience
1.50pm Session 3 Workshop Reports-key pointsRapporteurs
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Workshop report back session
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Time Event Venue Topic2.00pm Concurrent Sessions
1. Paper presenters: Lorraine Sushames and Valda Shannon with Wendy Kennedy, and Allison Stewart
Panel discussion: (provisional composition): Bob Boughton (Evaluator ‘Yes I can’ community Literacy Campaign NSW), Jenni Anderson (Chairperson Australian Council for Adult Literacy)
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Paper: English Language Literacy and Numeracy: The forgotten right
Discussion Panel:Adult English Language Literacy and Numeracy in the NT: Core or Periphery?
2.Yarning CircleAn opportunity for Indigenous youth to get together with others to share issues arising from the two day Pre-Conference Youth workshop
Room #1 The voice of remote Indigenous youth.
3.30pm Conclude Setting the Scene, Day 2
Synthesis of the day &Complete feedback forms
3.45pm Close of Day 1 Mal Nairn Auditorium
End Day 1
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Time Event Venue Topic4:15pm Extension Workshop
Shellie Morris and Neil Murray
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Healing Through Music
5.00pm Conference Networking Dinner MCAssociate Prof Bob Somerville
Arts Building Networking Dinner
7.00pm –9.00pm
Conference Concert Main CDU Amphitheatre
Kevin Kropinyeri, Neil Murray and Shellie Morris
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Time Event Venue Topic8.00am Registration Mal Nairn
AuditoriumRegistrationsTea and coffee
8.30am Master of Ceremony Kevin Kropinyeri & Naomi BonsonSetting the Conference Scene
Mal Nairn Auditorium
House-keeping, Conference objectives, Conference program,Conference Networking Dinner,Conference Performances
8.40am Guest SpeakerProfessor Tom CalmaChancellor, University of Canberra
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National Indigenous Engagement: what is working and why?
9.00am Guest SpeakerAssociate Prof Bob Somerville BIITE
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What comes first the environment or the high performance? Pre-Conditions for Successful Schools.
9.20am Performance-Wagaman Primary School year 2/3 students
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Re-enactment of the Wave Hill Walk Off
9.30am Keynote speaker (#4)Presenter-Professor Mark Rose, CEO BIITE
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Sorry if we seem to be repeating ourselves’ Everything old is new again. We are regularly confronted by disturbing statistics and incidences around social indicators and while much effort is expended some fundamentals from the 1960’sare still to be addressed.
9.50am Session 4 Break-out Workshops (Red 6)W/shop #13
PresentersAssociate Prof James Smith and Whole of Community Engagement Team
Room #1 Understanding the aspirations of remote Aboriginal communities to pursue further education: Lessons learned through the Whole of Community Engagement initiative
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Time Event Venue TopicW/shop #14
PresentersDr Nici Barnes et al
Room #2 Smith Family/CDU research presentation: Indigenous parent engagement with school education
W/shop #15
PresenterAngurugu School
Room #3 Direct Instruction: The Angurugu Experience
W/shop #16
PresenterAssociate Prof Gary Fry
Room #4 NT Remote Indigenous Community Engagement: what might a strengthened design of schooling look like in remote NT communities?
10.20am Workshop Reports-key pointsRapporteurs
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Workshop report back session
10.30am Morning tea Mal Nairn Auditorium
11.00am Keynote speaker (#5)Presenter-Professor Peter Buckskin, Chair of the national More Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Initiative (MATSITI )
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‘Breaking through the Barriers…Our Rightful Place as Teachers and Leaders in the Education Profession’
11.20am Session 5 Break-out Workshops (Red 6)
W/shop #17
PresentersTerry Moore, Geoffrey Shannon and David Scholz
Room # 1 At the Intersection: the demands on Indigenous education leaders
W/shop #18
PresentersDjuwalpi Marika, Jimmy Langdon, Elizabeth Katakrinja, Valda Shannon, Geoffrey Shannon, Daisy Brown &/James Smith
Room # 2 Indigenous Leadership, Governance and Remote School Councils: The power of a collective voice
W/shop #19
PresentersTristan Duggie and Katrina Kotzur
Room # 3 Engagement through the butterfly approach to teaching in remote community: symmetry in cultural worlds
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Time Event Venue TopicW/shop #20
PresenterDr Stephen BolajiSchool of Education, Charles Darwin University
Room # 4 International experiences of Indigenous engagement: The Nigeria experience
11.50am Workshop Reports-key pointsRapporteurs
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Workshop report back session
12.00pm Discussion PanelThe Voice of Remote YouthPanel FacilitatorAssociate Prof James Smith
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Feedback from the participants of the pre-conference Remote Indigenous Youth Leadership Summit
12.30pm Lunch Mal Nairn Auditorium
1.00pm Keynote speaker (#6)Presenter-Leanne Caton Executive Director, Office of Aboriginal Affairs
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‘Developing economic platforms in remote Northern Territory Communities: building platforms for the engagement of health and education service’’
1.20pm Session 6 Break-out workshop sessions (Red 6)W/shop #21
PresentersGretchen Ennis, James Smith, Cat Street, and the Whole of Community Engagement Team
Room # 1 Exploring the Utility of Social Network Analysis in Remote Indigenous Education Contexts: A case study from the whole of community engagement initiative
W/shop #22
PresentersDean Yibarbuk, Millie Olcay & Seraine Namundja (Gunbalanya)
Room # 2 “Bininj to Bininj:” supporting sustainable pathways into higher education through the engagement of Aboriginal researchers in Australia.
W/shop #23
PresenterDuncan Poulson
Room # 3 Money, Wellbeing and ASIC’s MoneySmart Teaching Resources
W/shop #24
PresentersDavid Murtagh, AMSANTMarianne St Clair, Northern InstituteAndrew Bryett, Department of Health, Queensland
Room # 4 TeleHealth and Video Conferences Access and Use in Northern Australia
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Time Event Venue Topic1.50pm Workshop Reports-key
pointsRapporteurs
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Workshop report back session
2.00pm Discussion Panel Mal Nairn Auditorium
Discussion on conference themes
2:30pm Setting the Future Scene post-conference
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Summary of conference outcomes and future actions(1) What has been happening, (2) what needs to happen and (3) how can this happen?
2.45pm Conclude Day 2Messages from the Floor
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Participant take-aways, key messages
3.00pm Close of conference Mal Nairn Auditorium
Acknowledgements, steering committee, sponsor partnersPost-conference actions