AISNT would like to welcome Ian Smith to the team as the Director of Independent Indigenous Schools, bringing a range of experience and skills. His teaching stretches across from South Australia, Mildura and the Surfcoast of Victoria, before heading to Bathurst Island, part of the Tiwi Islands, NT. Ian and his family returned to Mildura, before heading north once more, this time to Tiwi College on Melville Island, and finally to Haileybury Rendall School in Darwin. This broad experience underpins a fine understanding of the complexities of education in Australia covering a variety of schools: encompassing small and large, from Government, Independent and Catholic, to Aboriginal and boarding schools.