We are the teachers who refuse to be victims of the Northern Territory Education Department, and refuse to break our promise to the Indigenous parents who asked us for help.
Who we are not:
We are not crusaders, troublemakers or difficult people. We are two teachers who simply sought to uphold our duty of care obligations which are required of us by law, and to maintain basic standards of human health and safety.
Dr Robert Bartholomew (above), sociologist, author, school teacher. His studies have appeared in dozens of science journals including the British Medical Journal, Medical Journal of Australia, and The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. He is the co-author of the critically acclaimed book, Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior with British Historian Hilary Evans.
Territory Opposition Leader Terry Mills meets with us at Parliament in Darwin after calling for an investigation, which was to be a sham as DET didn’t even interview us or look at our evidence! This is a slap in the face to democratic government. Why do we have Terry Mills picture up here? Question for Terry Mills: why aren't you renewing your call for an investigation -- this time a transparent one? If you respond, we will post your response on this website. We've put our careers on the line for this, we think it's the least you can do.
We now call for a transparent federal investigation into our blacklisting after raising health and safety issues at Alekarenge School and the sabotaging of our careers. There is only one thing stopping this much-needed probe: political will. We also want the answer to this question: Six days after sending an urgent request to then Education Minister Marion Scrymgour, who ordered Sheila Day to send a letter to Immigration stating that they would no longer offer my wife and I any teaching jobs? How could this happen even before an investigation was undertaken and without our knowledge?
Who We Are
