The National VET Equity Advisory Council (NVEAC) has been established by the Ministerial Council for Tertiary Education and Employment (MCTEE) to provide high level advice to training ministers on equity issues in the national training system.

The Minister for Education, the Hon Julia Gillard, has appointed Mr Tiga Bayles as the chair of the council.

Mr Bayles is currently chairperson of the National Indigenous Radio Service, and is president of the Brisbane Aboriginal and Islander Independent School known as ‘the Murri School' which he helped to found and develop.

Mr Bayles is also the National Ambassador for the National Indigenous English Literacy and Numeracy Strategy.

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