State Library of South Australia

Education, Action and Change: Embedding Anti-Racism in Practice is a professional learning session that supports educators and leaders to take meaningful, sustained action against racism, aligned with the Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) commitment to “take action against racism.”

This session focuses on the practical steps education sites can take to engage in anti-racism work, from self-interrogation and staff capacity-building to site-wide policy, practice, and cultural change. Participants will be supported to move beyond surface-level understandings, developing the skills and confidence to identify, challenge, and eradicate racism in all its form - whether interpersonal, institutional, or systemic.

The session will clarify the difference between anti-racism and cultural responsiveness: while cultural responsiveness focuses on belonging and respect for diverse cultural identities, anti-racism explicitly names and confronts power, privilege, and the structures that uphold racial inequity. Both are essential—but anti-racism demands active, intentional disruption of racist systems and behaviours.

Importantly, participants will explore how anti-racism is deeply connected to reconciliation - not as a separate initiative, but as part of the broader work of truth-telling, accountability, and justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Reconciliation without anti-racism risks being tokenistic; this session supports education sites to align their RAP commitments with real, transformative action.

Through practical tools, reflection activities, and examples of anti-racism in action across early learning, primary and secondary contexts, attendees will leave with the knowledge and strategies to lead change with integrity and impact.

This session is part three (3) of our three (3) part series. Sessions have been developed to be stand alone or to be accessed as a series.

Reconciliation as Everyday Practice invites educators to explore how reconciliation can be lived daily through relationships, curriculum, and systemic change within education settings.

This session focuses on moving beyond one-off activities or annual events to a sustained and reflective practice that embeds reconciliation into the heart of everyday teaching and leadership. Central to this approach is the building of reciprocal and transformative relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples — relationships grounded in trust, mutual respect, deep listening, and shared responsibility.

Participants will explore ways to meaningfully connect with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, ensuring that relationships are not extractive but rather led and informed by community voices, aspirations, and knowledges. The session will support educators to platform and amplify Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander approaches to education, including ways of knowing, being and doing, through both pedagogical practice and organisational culture.

In addition to practice-based strategies, this event will examine systems-level approaches to reconciliation - recognising that meaningful change also requires shifts in structures, policies, and institutional values. Educators and leaders will be guided through reflective frameworks that support critical self-assessment, site-wide planning, and long-term cultural transformation.

By grounding reconciliation in everyday practice, this session supports participants to lead change that is authentic, relational, and enduring.

This session is part two (2) of our three (3) part series. Sessions have been developed to be stand alone or to be accessed as a series.

The second session we are going to focus on political economy. See reading materials below. Please finish reading them in advance and come to discuss with us 🙂

1. An Introduction to Marx’s Three Volumes of Capital, by Michael Heinrich, pages 39-49, 93-97 .

2. Capital Pt 1, Marx, Chapter 26 ‘The Secret of Primitive Accumulation’

3. Summary of Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici Ch 2: The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women: Constructing “Difference” in the “Transition to Capitalism” A feminist account of primitive accumulation and the exploitative nature of social reproduction under capitalism.

4. Class in the 21st Century: Asset Inflation and the new logic of inequality, Adkins, Cooper, Konings This is a publicly available journal article. Only read up to (and excluding) “Rethinking class theory”. So is a focus on Australian history of financialisation.

Don’t hang our kids out to dry!

Join a peaceful, creative action in Rundle Mall to highlight the urgent need to protect our children, grandchildren, and future generations from climate risk.

Mothers’ Rebellion is a global movement of mothers, caregivers, and allies across 6 continents who refuse to look away, refuse to give up, and instead turn climate frustration and grief into action.

Meet next to the State Library on North Terrace at 10.45am for a briefing, before moving to Rundle Mall from 11am – 12pm. Finish with an optional picnic in Hindmarsh Square at midday.

Mothers, carers, children, and supporters are all welcome. This is a family friendly event with kids’ activities and music.

What to bring:

A piece of children’s clothing to hang on the washing line.
Musical instruments, whistles, drums
A placard with a climate message (we’ll have some too)
Family and friends

This peaceful event is sponsored by South Australia Grass-Roots Ecosystem (SAGE) and Extinction Rebellion SA (XRSA).