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.
Aief
Education opens door to policing
Sometimes, life hands you a lucky break. At other times you have to make that luck yourself.
Big sister achieves her dream
Nikita Crawshaw-Kearney has reached her dream of a university place through an AIEF scholarship.
Closing the Gap a matter of pride
For Libby Cook-Black, Closing the Gap isn’t some random set of numbers in an annual report.
Student to follow nan’s work
Danella Mene has spent most of the past five years thousands of kilometres from her home in the Torres Strait.
‘I didn’t know how to get to uni’
In 2008, one student got an AIEF scholarship. This year, it graduated more than 90.
Lighting up new horizons
‘I began to realise there were so many more options for my future,’ says AIEF graduate Matthew Collins.
Hopefuls take dreams to capital
An indigenous student who hopes to make her mark on the nation has met the man dubbed ‘the father of reconciliation’.
Jerone finds a strong foundation
Five years after leaving his Northern Territory home for Brisbane, Jerone Wills feels he is living a dream.
World was waiting for Jakheen
Aboriginal teen Jakheen Coaby was reluctant to leave family in Broome to attend an elite boarding school in Perth.
Scholarship program graduates double
THE number of indigenous students graduating from a national scholarship program has almost doubled in one year.
Claudia’s brush helps paint a future
LOOKING at her bold works, it’s difficult to believe teenage artist Claudia Moodoonuthi picked up a paintbrush only two years ago.
Demand for scholarship soars
THE founder of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation says he cannot keep up with the tremendous demand.
Andrew Penfold, education activist
HOW a misspent youth on the streets of Redfern led to a career in law and, finally, indigenous charity.
Our solution works
EMPOWERING kids through education may give us our first Aboriginal prime minister.
Funds secure lifetime of opportunity
THE Sabatino children have been afforded the kind of opportunity their parents never had.
Indigenous PM on the way: Mundine
AN indigenous education foundation is challenging expectations of indigenous education, aiming to pay for 7000 more students to go to boarding schools.
Ambitious plan for indigenous scholarships
ABOUT 7000 indigenous students will receive scholarships to study at Australia’s best schools if a private non-profit group can raise $100 million.
$100m plan to deliver better future
THANASI Tiliakos cannot pinpoint the precise moment his circumstances began to close in around him.
Katie’s now an indigenous pioneer
KATIE Prince is one of a growing group: an indigenous student in Year 12 and about to finish school.
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