Justine Clarke and the Barunga kids. Photo: Justine Taylor.
This year’s Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) will showcase three bilingual children’s books and, for the first time, the event will be livestreamed from the Sydney Opera House on Wednesday 6 September, featuring ambassadors Jessica Mauboy, Gregg Dreise, Justine Clarke and Josh Pyke, as well as children from Barunga Remote Community School.
Created as part of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF), the day was launched 12 years ago to platform and celebrate the stories, cultures and languages of First Nations peoples.
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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