National Walk for Truth Education Resource
The National Walk for Truth was an epic 905km walk advocating fo ra national truth-telling process for healing, justice and meaningful change.
Kerrupmara Gunditjmara man and Executive Director of theUniversity of Melbourne’s Centre for Truth Telling and Dialogue, Travis Lovett and his wife Renata walked (and swam) 905km (907.52km to be exact) from Parliament House in Naarm/Melbourne to Parliament House in Canberra. Thank you to the schools that joined the historic Walk!
We continue the call for truth-telling, we continue to walk together, and we invite you to join us too.
Travis and Reconciliation Victoria are proud to invite your school and early childhood centres to continue the walk and truth-telling in schools!
👣 National Walk for Truth
📅 Sun 19 April- Wed 27 May 2026
📍 Melbourne-Canberra
🔗 More info: Walk for Truthk
How can schools/early learning centres be involved?
📖 Teacher resources (see below)
👣 Host your own Kids Walk for Truth
📰 Share the Walk in your newsletter and the open letter
Where was the Walk?
The public walks and events.
📍 Wurundjeri, Taunguraung, Yorta Yorta, Bangerang Country in Victoria and more in NSW/ACT.
Host your own Kids Walk for Truth
🪧 Create your own Kids Walk for Truth. A guide has been provided in the slides to help you and your students to organise your own Walk. It could be a great Reconciliation Week activity and link to your RAP. Get the whole community involved!
LIVE Zoom with Travis
On Thursday 7th May we hosted a Zoom with an update and Q&A with Travis live on the National Walk for Truth after Travis had swum from Victoria to NSW! More information to come from this session. We had about 250 people join us including about 220 students! Thank you to all the schools and early learning centres for joining us.
LIVESTREAM the final walk
We livedstreamed on the final day Wednesday 27th May outside Parliament House, Canberra. People were able to witness the Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony, then 'walk with' Travis up to Parliament House for the message stick handover and kangaroo skin open letter to Prime Minsiter Albanese and the speeches by the PM and Travis after his epic 907.52km walk! You can read Travis' final speech.
Congratulations Travis, Renata and the team!
Teaching Resource
We have created a set of slides with videos, discussions, articles and more to engage your students (and staff)! This can be part of your National Reconciliation Week activities, community event and even part of your school/centre's Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). You will also find a guide to planning and hosting your own Kids Walk for Truth. Make sure you check the presenter notes for 'Educator Notes'!
Created by Reconciliation Victoria to support the National Walk for Truth with thanks to Students Walk for Truth at Darebin Schools Yarning Conference City of Darebin and Clancy Lester (aka Bee Man) for the videos. Approved by Travis and Renata from National Walk for Truth. Thank you / Ngoon godjin!
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