Markak Tawer

Studying for a Master of Indigenous Language Education at the University of Sydney, class of 2025. 

Graduated with a Diploma of Education from James Cook University in 1996. Currently working as a Community Language Teacher specializing in Meriam Mir at Tagai State College - Mer Campus.

Over 30 years of experience with the Department of Education, Queensland. 

Meriam Mir Curriculum Writer for The Australian Curriculum. 

Reviving the Meriam Mir language through the First Nation Community Project. 

Graduated from the Commonwealth Youth Program at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, in 1989. 

In the early 1990s, I was elected as a Council Member for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra, ACT.