Barker College, located amid the leafy canopy of Sydney’s wealthy upper North Shore, is as far as one can get both physically and metaphysically, from Gunyangara, a tiny Indigenous community, 11 hours east of Darwin, on the Gove Peninsula.
But a remarkable partnership is transforming a tiny school into an exemplar for Indigenous education with students who ranked in the top 5 per cent of a global robotics competition in the US.
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Julie Hare is the Education editor. She has more than 20 years’ experience as a writer, journalist and editor. Connect with Julie on Twitter. Email Julie at julie.hare@afr.com