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Australian Schools Commission, which produced the influential Schools in Australia report in 1973. Blackburn was a full-time member of the commission from 1974 to 1980, during which time she was associated with the Disadvantaged Schools Program. She later chaired a Ministerial Review of post-compulsory schooling in Victoria and the Victorian Board of Education. Blackburn was the first chancellor of the University of Canberra, appointed in 1990. She was awarded an AO twice, returning her first award in protest, and was posthumously inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2002.
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