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Mr. Noel Pearson	Dr. Ken Henry	Prof. Marcia Langton
Ms. Tania Major	Mr. Sandy McCutcheon	Mr. Michael Meyers
Prof. Lawrence Mead	Prof. Ron Duncan	Mr Wilfred Gordon Dr. Judy Bennett
Dr. Chris Sarra	Prof. Peter Saunders	Mr. John Wenitong
Jane-Frances Kelly	Colin Rubenstein	Prof. Helen Milroy

DR. CHRIS SARRA

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Dr Chris Sarra is the youngest of 10 children and his family comes from Bundaberg. He has had an extensive career in education. His main passion is pursuing more positive and productive educational outcomes for Indigenous children.

More recently he became well known for the role he played as the first ever Aboriginal principal of Cherbourg State School in South East Queensland. In his time as Principal he facilitated many positive changes that saw increasing enthusiasm for student learning through dramatically improved school attendance and increased community involvement in education. Under Chris’ leadership the school became nationally acclaimed for its pursuit of the ‘Strong and Smart’ philosophy. 

Today Dr Sarra is the Director of the Indigenous Education Leadership Institute, which is based in Cherbourg, and designed to pursue stronger and smarter student outcomes for Indigenous children throughout Australia.