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Doctorate awarded to elder for 50 years teaching 'any child to read'

ABC News Australia - Top Stories · 17 October 2026 at 12:32 pm

After a career spanning half a century, Aunty Ruth Simms has been posthumously acknowledged as a Doctor of Letters.

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