From today, teachers Australia-wide will have a new set of resources to help them educate their students on one of Australia’s most troubling set of policies in its recent history: The Stolen Generations, in which thousands of Aboriginal and Torres ...

Despite efforts of successive cabinets, the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous outcomes has yet to be closed. Prime Minister Scott Morrison hopes a new plan will at least reduce it educationally. Unveiled today, it entails waiving the HECS debts of 3,100 ...

Nine new books written in Kriol have been launched to help boost Indigenous literacy. Students from St Joseph’s Catholic College in Katherine, Northern Territory, took their first trip to the big smoke, visiting the Sydney Opera House for Indigenous Literacy ...

In August we learned that there were NAPLAN triumphs and concerns: overall, reading and numeracy were up, yet writing had declined. Now, with ACARA's release of the 2017 NAPLAN National Report, long-term demographic trends have come to light. Since 2008, Indigenous ...

David Unaipon - the Indigenous man on the Australian $50 note - would be proud. Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney is about to give an inaugural lecture at King’s College London (KCL) bearing his name. Rigney, in addition to being a UniSA education ...

You’ve probably heard of private school scholarships for Indigenous students, but what about helping them adapt to their new environment before they reach the wrought iron gates? Liz and Rick Tudor have addressed this in Victoria by opening the Melbourne ...

A bipartisan organisation that has been advocating for improvements in Indigenous education is now unable to make its rent after the federal government defunded it in 2014. The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples once received $14 million in federal ...

A new report from Mission Australia shows 10 per cent of Indigenous young men aged 15 to 19, and 5 per cent of Indigenous women of this age, rate their happiness as 0 out of 10. Only 1 per cent of ...

Australia has had a long, rich cultural history of producing some of the greatest performing artists to grace the world stage. Among them is lauded and internationally recognised Indigenous soprano, actor, composer and playwright, Deborah Cheetham. Among her many credits, ...

Gracing our currency’s $50 note is an iconic figure from the early 20th century who became known as the ‘Australian Leonardo da Vinci’. History knows him as David Unaipon, a Ngarrindjeri man. He was an Indigenous polymath who gained a reputation ...