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ASSPA – Bringing Everyone Together
Story: ASSPA Getting a good primary and secondary education these days can be really difficult. Students are under immense pressure to do well from the outset, teachers are flat out stretching resources, and its sometimes difficult for parents and caregivers to know how to best help their child achieve in the classroom. Fortunately there’s a […]
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Doctor Ngarie Brown
Who’s Who Worker Profile: Doctor Ngiare Brown By the time Ngiare Brown was in primary school she knew she wanted to be a doctor. No one else in Ngiare’s family had ever gone into medicine, but that didn’t stop them from getting right behind her. “I had a very supportive family and community,” says Ngiare. […]
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Good Vibes For Uncle Pete
Story: Peter Buckskin A leading advocate of Indigenous education for 25 years, Peter Buckskin knows the value of a good teacher more than most. When Peter Buckskin was a student in Western Australia, one of his teachers coolly suggested he stop wasting his parents’ money at boarding school and go and start digging holes in […]
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Abstudy: Money To Study!
Story: Abstudy We all know how hard studying can be. Whether you’re at primary school, high school, university or TAFE, finding the time to prepare for exams and complete all your assignments while maintaining other commitments – such as looking after your siblings or having a part-time job – can be a real balancing act. […]
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Welcome Words
NSW public school students will now acknowledge Aboriginal Australians as the original custodians of the land, thanks to new guidelines released by the NSW Department of Education and Training. The guidelines, which will go out to all NSW public schools and TAFEs, propose that the Aboriginal Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country be performed […]
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Job of the Month – Security Officer
A security officer is a great job, as 10 Koori graduates from a security officer program recently held in Canberra will agree
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Job of the Month – Registered Nurse
Thought about working in a hospital and providing care for the sick?
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Trying to make school a deadly place to be
The teachers don’t know what it’s like for us kids, they don’t want to know
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