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.
Doling out indigenous grants
WASTE and mismanagement only entrenches disadvantage.
Farewell school of hard knocks
TARRYN Brown-Williams’s father died when she was young, after which her mother struggled to raise her eight children.
Libby’s on course for success
IT took Libby Cook-Black moving to Sydney to realise indigenous students could go to uni and get a degree, as white kids did.
Foster child lives her law school dream
AS an Aboriginal girl who was fostered out at just seven days old, Kygim King’s chances of finishing high school were not bright.
BP donates $1m for boarding scheme
AN extra 60 indigenous students will now have the opportunity to attend one of the nation’s prestigious private boarding schools.
A dream job in league of its own
TANIKA Perry was born into a love of rugby league – her father is a passionate league man and sponsors the local team
Lawyer banked on indigenous education
ANDREW Penfold has devoted himself to changing the lives of Australia’s most disadvantaged children.
Indigenous support builds
EDUCATION and employment the antidote to disadvantage.
Blood, sweat, tears a price worth it
THE first thing Jemmason Power noticed about her new private boarding school was its size.
School is missing link in jobs effort
INDIGENOUS employment is constrained by supply, not demand.
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