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Changing Places
Moving away from home for the first time for many young people can be really exciting, but not knowing anyone in a new town can also be pretty daunting. Having to support yourself financially and study without family support can be even tougher. The Indigenous Youth Mobility Program (IYMP) makes the transition of moving from […]
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Fast Track to the Big Stage
You only need to look at the recent success of Aboriginal opera singer Deborah Cheetham, the movie Bran Nue Dae, and chart-toppers Dan Sultan, Jessica Mauboy and Gurrumul to know Indigenous performers are making their mark on the local and international stage like never before. To help usher in our next generation of performance stars, […]
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We’re The First
We are the students from the Year 7 Healesville High School Woiwurrung Ngulu (language) program. We are part of history in the making because we’re the first students to learn an Aboriginal ngulu as a Language Other than English (LOTE) at a high school in Victoria. Bambu (Aunty) Joy Wandin-Murphy and Bambu Doreen Garvey-Wandin are […]
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Access All Areas
Seven days, 100 students, 26 departments, 96 mps and a couple of sporting legends comprised this year’s ‘learn earn legend! Work experience with government’ program. The Program brought 100 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from around Australia to Canberra to see how government works. Building on the successful pilot run last year, the program […]
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Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme
The Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme was established in recognition of Dr Arnold ‘Puggy’ Hunter’s significant contribution to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, including in his role as inaugural Chair of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO). Royal College of Nursing, Australia (RCNA) is celebrating ten years of administrating the scholarship scheme […]
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OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER EDUCATION
Australian Electoral Commission – Indigenous Electoral Participation Program The AEC’s Indigenous Electoral Participation Program (IEPP) was established as a part of the Governance and Leadership building block of the Australian Government’s Closing the Gap Initiative in 2010. The rationale for the program has been built to encourage greater levels of Indigenous enrolment, voter turnout and formal […]
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Joshua Toomey – On top of the world
His office is up a pole with sweeping views of trees and sometimes over the ocean. He has the power to get your electricity back on and he wears hi vis and a hard hat. The man with all this power at his fingertips is NAIDOC apprentice of the year Joshua Toomey and while his […]
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On your marks
No matter which Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander leaders you speak to around Australia, all make the point that going to school and getting a good education is one of the most important ways to make a good start. You’re at school for between 11 to 13 years – a big chunk of your life […]
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Learning @ hand
Technology has changed rapidly in the last 20 years, with the speed of computers doubling every two years. Many people are now using mobile devices like XOs, PSPs and 3G phones to draw or paint, make movies about their lives and communities, record their own music and to learn more about the world. Recognising the […]
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Cops and kids go ‘Off the Hook’
Police and local Indigenous children on Melville Island are finding common ground in a love of fishing, with police saying it is also a good way to build trust in the community. AFP members deployed to ‘Operation Pleach’ in the Northern Territory have taken part in the fourth ‘Off the Hook’ fishing event last week. […]
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Connecting through language
Speaking an Indigenous language has a positive impact on health and wellbeing according to a study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in remote areas. An Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) study highlights the importance of passing down and using language, which is work that the Wa ngka Ma ya Pilba ra Aboriginal La […]
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Budget delivers $250m for Indigenous education and training
More than a quarter of a billion dollars will flow out to Indigenous Australians to help them to stay at school and find work. The Federal Budget, handed down last night, allocated an extra $171 million to programs that focus on Indigenous school students. The funding ends in 2013. A new $50.7 million Youth Careers […]
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Sharing Culture
In 2005 Gadj and Jodie Maymuru started out with a passionate idea to help their kids learn about their Aboriginal culture. Like all really good ideas it’s taken root, growing into Sharing Culture Online – a learning and teaching system for schools, individuals and communities that is helping not only to deepen knowledge and understanding […]
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Speaking our language
Bob Hawke, Cathy Freeman, Peter Overton, Faulstina “Fuzzy” Agolley, Deborah Thomas and Mario Fenech have all been speaking out about Indigenous literacy – in language. A new commercial from the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (ALNF) has been launched featuring the Warumungu language from the Tennant Creek region in the Northern Territory. The only words […]
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Inspiring our young leaders
The aim of this year’s gathering was to get leading Year 10 and 11 students together to meet their peers from across the nation. IYLP students also enjoyed four days of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural performances, developed their knowledge of – and pride in – their own and other’s cultures, and built their […]
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Charlie Perkins Scholarships to send Indigenous Australians to Oxford
The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today announced that the Government will provide $132,000 to the Charlie Perkins Trust for Children and Students which will give two talented Indigenous Australians the opportunity to study at the University of Oxford for up to three years. Ms Gillard said the Rudd Government was pleased to be able […]
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