{"id":78442,"date":"2026-02-19T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/opening-up-worlds-linda-burney-joins-uts-board-with-a-mission-to-boost-aboriginal-participation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:00:00","slug":"opening-up-worlds-linda-burney-joins-uts-board-with-a-mission-to-boost-aboriginal-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/opening-up-worlds-linda-burney-joins-uts-board-with-a-mission-to-boost-aboriginal-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Opening up worlds\u2019: Linda Burney joins UTS board with a mission to boost Aboriginal participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3787cbc3e4650d25c1899f03306130c64f511e6a\/887_328_6417_5136\/master\/6417.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=d6078fa92d83d5d42f37716577f626ad\" alt=\"\u2018Opening up worlds\u2019: Linda Burney joins UTS board with a mission to boost Aboriginal participation\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">Politics<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">\u2018Opening up worlds\u2019: Linda Burney joins UTS board with a mission to boost Aboriginal participation<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Former minister helped develop Australia\u2019s first Aboriginal education policy in the 1980s and brings decades of expertise to embattled universityFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLinda Burney has been appointed to her first public role since leaving federal parliament, joining the board of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in a move the New South Wales government hopes will restore faith in the embattled institution.Burney, the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the federal House of Representatives, ended her two-decade career in politics in early 2025, departing as the minister for Indigenous Australians in mid-2024 and formally leaving office at the end of the 47th parliament. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/feb\/19\/linda-burney-uts-board-university-of-technology-sydney-aboriginal-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics \u2018Opening up worlds\u2019: Linda Burney joins UTS board with a mission to boost Aboriginal participation Former minister helped develop Australia\u2019s first Aboriginal education policy in the 1980s and brings decades of expertise to embattled universityFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLinda Burney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":78443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}