Gary Fry
Gary Fry is an Aboriginal man from the Northern Territory and is a member of the Dagoman tribe in the Katherine region. Gary worked as a qualified electrician during the 1980’s before qualifying as a primary school teacher in 1989. Gary has taught and been a principal in four remote Aboriginal schools across the NT over a ten year period, and he has spent an equal amount of time at a senior leadership and executive principal level in urban mainstream schools in Darwin. Gary has a long-term commitment to tackling Indigenous educational inequality through his many connections in the education industry and is recognized nationally for his work in Indigenous and mainstream education. In recent years, Gary has undertaken senior executive level roles at Charles Darwin University (CDU), including Principal in Residence at the Centre for School Leadership (2012-2014) and Director (2014-2016), responsible for school leadership training across the Northern Territory education sector. In 2016, Gary undertook the role of Associate Professor of Education, Indigenous School Leadership, within the School of Education at CDU. In 2017, Gary has undertaken the role of Director First Nations Collaborative Research Centre at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education. Gary is undertaking a PhD through Batchelor Institute. This study is a critical policy analysis of NT remote Indigenous education inequality within a stratified capitalist Australian society, examining the forces that shape systemic and localised policy inertia and the perpetual holding patterns reflected in Indigenous education outcomes.