Professor Andrew Gunstone
Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Reconciliation
Professor Andrew Gunstone joined Federation University in October 2022 as the inaugural Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor Reconciliation. He leads the Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) and all reconciliation matters across the university, including the National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth, and Justice, which he established in February 2023.
Andrew is an international expert in academic, industry, and community engagements and understandings of reconciliation. He has written over 150 publications, including nine books, obtained many research and industry grants, and regularly provides expert advice to industry, community, corporates, universities, governments, NGOs, and non-for-profits.
Andrew is Co-Chair, Board of Directors at Reconciliation Victoria, the peak state-wide body leading reconciliation, Foundation Editor of the Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, a leading international journal he established in 1998, Co-Convenor of the National University RAP Network, and sits on several national and regional reconciliation committees.
Andrew was at Swinburne University (2015-22), where he led all reconciliation and Indigenous matters across the university. He established Swinburne’s first Indigenous centre and Australia’s first national reconciliation centre, and authored and led two Elevate RAPs. He also had senior leadership roles at Monash University and University of South Australia.
For more details on: qualifications, professional associations, areas of expertise, current research grants, and publications, please see https://federation.edu.au/about-us/our-university/reconciliation/national-centre-for-reconciliation-truth-and-justice/researcher-profiles/andrew-gunstone
Reflections on the Voice: During and after the campaign
A No vote would be disastrous for Reconciliation
Organisations with Reconciliation Action Plans should support a First Nations Voice to parliament
Where to now for reconciliation: signposts from the Referendum
National reconciliation centre to help lead national systemic change
Reflections on Leading Reconciliation Action Plans
Swinburne University Indigenous Teaching and Learning Strategy 2021-2023
Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan 2020-2023
Reflections on Implementing a Reconciliation Action Plan
Cultural Competency through a Reconciliation Action Plan
Swinburne University Indigenous Research Strategy 2018-19
Awareness of Indigenous Stolen Wages in East Gippsland, Victoria
Identifying strategies for improving VET to higher education transitions for Indigenous learners
Indigenous VET to Higher Education pathways and transitions: A literature review
Reconciliation, Peacebuilding and Indigenous Peoples in Australia
Swinburne University Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan 2017-2019
Indigenous employment in the professions in local government
Reconciliation, reparations and rights: Indigenous Australians and the stolen generations
The Australian reconciliation process: A case study of community education
The Australian Reconciliation Process: An analysis
Attitudes towards reconciliation in East Gippsland, Victoria
Community reconciliation: A case study in Gippsland, Victoria
Developing Sustainable Education in Regional Australia
Developing Sustainable Education in Regional Australia
Indigenous stolen wages and campaigns for reparations in Victoria
Indigenous leadership and governance at Australian universities
Indigenous rights and governments in Australia
Reflections on teaching a first-year Indigenous Australian studies subject
Attitudes towards Indigenous Issues’
Indigenous education 1991-2000: Documents, outcomes and governments
There is often a disparity in Indigenous Affairs between many documents, such as policies,...
Indigenous Peoples and Stolen Wages in Victoria, 1869–1957
Reconciliation and Commonwealth Governments in the 21st Century’
Reconciliation groups in Gippsland
Reconciliation in Gippsland
Reconciliation in Regional Australia: Case Studies from Gippsland
Reconciliation and dialogue in regional Australia: a case study in East Gippsland
The impact of the Commonwealth Government’s Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) framework on Australian Indigenous Studies
A history of exclusion: Indigenous people and social security
Over a decade of despair: the Howard government and indigenous affairs
Reconciliation and the Howard Government
The Howard government and Indigenous affairs
Twenty years of failure: Reconciliation in Australia from 1988 to 2008
Afterward: Reconciliation and Commonwealth Governments
Indigenous rights and the 1991-2000 Australian reconciliation process
The government owes a lot of money to our people: a history of Indigenous stolen wages in Victoria
The role of Indigenous studies journals in the discipline of Indigenous studies
Unfinished business: the Australian formal reconciliation process
Whiteness, Indigenous peoples and Australian universities
Australian Indigenous studies and Australian universities
Australian University Approaches to Indigenous Policy
History, politics & knowledge: essays in Australian indigenous studies
Reconciliation and Australian indigenous health in the 1990s: A failure of public policy
The Australian Reconciliation Process: an analysis
The Politics of Saying Sorry
Unfinished business: The Australian reconciliation process from 1991-2000
Community Involvement and Education in the 1991-2000 Australian Reconciliation Process
Reconciliation in East Gippsland
The Impact of Whiteness on the 1991-2000 Australian Reconciliation Process
These blokes are re-inventing the 19th century: the Howard Government's record on Indigenous affairs 1996-2006
Unfinished business : the Australian formal reconciliation process
The Howard Government's approach to Indigenous self-determination
The impact of the Howard Government upon the formal Australian reconciliation process
Unfinished Business: the Australian Reconciliation Process from 1991 to 2000
The responses of Australian governments to Indigenous challenges to the Australian state: 1967-2003
Positive Self-Identity for Indigenous Students and its Relationship to School Outcomes