Weaving Truths Resource

Published
July 22, 2025
July 28, 2025
Last Updated
July 23, 2025
Contributors
Written by
Kyarna Cruse
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Yuin
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Yuin
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Common Ground's Weaving Truths education resource has been designed to support educators and students in engaging deeply with First Nations truth-telling through creative and critical thinking and learning.

About the resource

Based around the Weaving Truths series, this education resource is created to support creative and critical thinking and learning through tailored activities connected to each storyteller project.  

This resource can be used flexibly across Years 7–12, and is mapped to the Australian Curriculum with links to English, Humanities and Social Sciences and The Arts. It also supports key General Capabilities – including Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding and Intercultural Understanding – as well as the Cross Curriculum Priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures and Sustainability.

You might choose to explore one section in-depth over a few lessons

  • Use the discussion prompts and activities to complement existing units
  • Integrate creative responses into English, Visual Arts or Civics assessments
  • Invite local community members and knowledge holders to share their perspectives on truth-telling
  • Use the resource to support project-based learning, excursions or school displays

Common Ground collaborated with Yuin education writer Kyarna Cruse to develop this education resource.

About the Weaving Truths Series

In collaboration with three First Nations storytellers, the series presents diverse and unique approaches responding to truth-telling:

  • Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Ngurai Illum Wurrung and Wiradjuri storyteller Neil Morris explores the power of sovereignty through a spoken word poem and film.
  • Bundjalung and Worimi storyteller Phoebe McIlwraith explores the power of in-language storytelling to meet the needs of a multilingual Australia with new resources in five languages and a supporting research report.
  • Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr storyteller Dakota Feirer explores the myth of flora nullius through an explorative essay based around historical records.

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