Alex Wharton is the 2019 Copyright Agency's Reading Australia Teacher Fellowship recipient for research into a literary analysis of the colonial experience of First Nation and non-first nation writers. He will be presenting the keynote address at the SLANSW Conference, which is entitled Reading for Inclusion. His presentation will bring together best practice from research and interviews with librarians, teachers, academics, publishers with regards to using Australian Indigenous literature within school contexts.

Alex is the Head of Middle School at Carinya Christian School, Gunnedah and has been an English Teacher and Head Teacher for over ten years.

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