Matt Davies

Matt has been a consultant and senior advisor for TCR for the past 2 years. He has had a long career in education, including as an adult educator at Tranby Aboriginal College, and over 12 years in senior executive roles in Commonwealth education. He was responsible for Indigenous education, students with disability and youth policies and programs as Group Manager in the department of education. He managed national programs including the Sporting Chance Program, Parent and Community Engagement program, Youth Pathways Program among others. He most recently managed the Red Cross in the ACT, including its community support programs, refugees support and justice services. He is an experienced public and community sector manager, with extensive experience in capability development, strategic planning and service delivery.

Matt is passionate about solving problems, improving service delivery systems and strengthening our democracy. He has demonstrated a deep understanding of and commitment to public sector reform and continuous quality improvement. Over the past forty years, he has worked tirelessly as an advocate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on a political level, as well as for environmental reform and for justice for refugees.

Matt recently completed a 4-year term as a member of the ACT Reconciliation Council and continues to play a role in promoting Reconciliation within our community. He believes that Reconciliation is essential to provide ‘a just settlement with First Nations peoples, based on the truth that the British stole a country using violence and terror. As non-Indigenous Australians, we aren’t to blame for that, for the thefts and the massacres and the dispossessions back then, but we all benefited from that and we still do. And so we're all responsible for how we fix those wrongs.’