Giving back via indigenous policy
Student Jerome Pang, 23, wants to dedicate his career to influencing policy that will improve the lives of Aboriginal people.
Student Jerome Pang, 23, wants to dedicate his career to influencing policy that will improve the lives of Aboriginal people.
Sometimes, life hands you a lucky break. At other times you have to make that luck yourself.
Nikita Crawshaw-Kearney has reached her dream of a university place through an AIEF scholarship.
For Libby Cook-Black, Closing the Gap isn’t some random set of numbers in an annual report.
Danella Mene has spent most of the past five years thousands of kilometres from her home in the Torres Strait.
In 2008, one student got an AIEF scholarship. This year, it graduated more than 90.
‘I began to realise there were so many more options for my future,’ says AIEF graduate Matthew Collins.
An indigenous student who hopes to make her mark on the nation has met the man dubbed ‘the father of reconciliation’.
Five years after leaving his Northern Territory home for Brisbane, Jerone Wills feels he is living a dream.
Aboriginal teen Jakheen Coaby was reluctant to leave family in Broome to attend an elite boarding school in Perth.
THE number of indigenous students graduating from a national scholarship program has almost doubled in one year.
LOOKING at her bold works, it’s difficult to believe teenage artist Claudia Moodoonuthi picked up a paintbrush only two years ago.
THE founder of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation says he cannot keep up with the tremendous demand.
HOW a misspent youth on the streets of Redfern led to a career in law and, finally, indigenous charity.
EMPOWERING kids through education may give us our first Aboriginal prime minister.
THE Sabatino children have been afforded the kind of opportunity their parents never had.
AN indigenous education foundation is challenging expectations of indigenous education, aiming to pay for 7000 more students to go to boarding schools.
ABOUT 7000 indigenous students will receive scholarships to study at Australia’s best schools if a private non-profit group can raise $100 million.
THANASI Tiliakos cannot pinpoint the precise moment his circumstances began to close in around him.
KATIE Prince is one of a growing group: an indigenous student in Year 12 and about to finish school.
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