Langton: ‘bolt-on’ system a letdown
INDIGENOUS education has been let down by a dysfunctional series of marginal programs, experiments and “bolt-ons”.
INDIGENOUS education has been let down by a dysfunctional series of marginal programs, experiments and “bolt-ons”.
FOR the longest, most crucial stretch of Nahdia Noter’s life, role models failed her.
IT is too early to relax hard-won alcohol restrictions.
AT 17, Arthur Currie is a promising athlete, popular among his peers and looks forward to graduating from high school.
SARAH Treacy, daughter of a Kija woman and a non-indigenous father, spent Christmas in Sydney and July out bush.
WHEN Carlin Anderson describes himself as an all-rounder, it is with typical teenage understatement.
AIEF’s boarding school scholarship program for indigenous youngsters is a resounding success.
In the small indigneous community where Yvonne O’Neill grew up, the local school catered for students only to Year 10.
FOUR years ago, Frank Lowah was an apprentice butcher in Cairns, playing rugby union and aiming to become a fisherman.
THE chief of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation says his organisation is a good model for government funding.
WASTE and mismanagement only entrenches disadvantage.
TARRYN Brown-Williams’s father died when she was young, after which her mother struggled to raise her eight children.
IT took Libby Cook-Black moving to Sydney to realise indigenous students could go to uni and get a degree, as white kids did.
AS an Aboriginal girl who was fostered out at just seven days old, Kygim King’s chances of finishing high school were not bright.
AN extra 60 indigenous students will now have the opportunity to attend one of the nation’s prestigious private boarding schools.
TANIKA Perry was born into a love of rugby league – her father is a passionate league man and sponsors the local team
ANDREW Penfold has devoted himself to changing the lives of Australia’s most disadvantaged children.
EDUCATION and employment the antidote to disadvantage.
THE first thing Jemmason Power noticed about her new private boarding school was its size.
INDIGENOUS employment is constrained by supply, not demand.
ALMOST 20 years after her grandfather fought for indigenous land rights, Eddie Mabo’s granddaughter has delivered a policy idea to Kevin Rudd.
MY School should focus specifically on indigenous education.
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