Contact details

Kirsten is best contacted at kstorry at cis.org.au.

The Centre for Independent Studies
Post: PO Box 92, St Leonards NSW 1590
Tel: (02) 9438 4377
Fax: (02) 9439 7310

Bio

Kirsten Storry is a Visiting Fellow on the Indigenous Affairs Research Programme at the Centre for Independent Studies, a non-profit non-partisan public policy think tank in Sydney. She researches, writes and speaks on indigenous policy issues, principally education. Her work covers such issues as teacher quality, school attendance, literacy and numeracy, governance, and law and order.

For CIS, Kirsten has published two policy papers and 25 opinion pieces in newspapers and magazines in Australia and New Zealand. She has given many media interviews with newspapers and radio stations across Australia and appeared as a panelist on a TV current affairs show in New Zealand. She has also published three journal articles and one policy paper as a freelance writer.

Kirsten has a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of New South Wales and is completing a Master of Public Policy at the Australian National University.

Impact

Kirsten's work on indigenous education is well known in media and policy circles. Published endorsements of her work include:

* Christopher Bantick, 'Teachers key to books' relevance', The Courier Mail, Brisbane, 5 September 2007.
* Editorial, 'Save Yourselves', The Australian, 19 June 2007.
* Productivity Commission, Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage, 2007 edition.
* Helen Hughes, Lands of Shame (Sydney: CIS, 2007).
* Luke Slattery, ‘This national disgrace must end’, The Australian Financial Review, 4 September 2006.
* Professor Jon Altman (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research), 'Curricula the crucial issue', The Australian, 13 June 2006.