Wednesday, 8 February 2023

 Bev McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (12:50): (15) My question is for the Minister for Education and concerns shirts which parents of year 6 pupils at Grasmere Primary School in my electorate were recently invited to purchase for their children. Each pupil’s name is accompanied on these shirts by an Aboriginal symbol for male or female. So my question to the minister is: what guidance exists for schools in designing uniforms? Do you agree that parents should have an input, and do you endorse this particular use of Indigenous symbolism and its binary gender identification?