Common Sense Seen In Collaboration To Improve Aboriginal Outcomes
February 8, 2013, Hits:185
The proposal announced by Minister Collier, and already in operation, to engage Mr Duncan Ord from The Department of Indigenous Affairs to work with the Director General of Education Ms Sharyn O’Neill in order to forge a more collaborative approach t...
Read moreClosing The Gap
January 17, 2013, Hits:243
Chris Brackenberg received his first intake of refugee African students in 2006. Many of them had served as soldiers in their country. Many of them had witnessed what many men in Australia will never see in a lifetime. They had come from extenuati...
Read moreAustralia’s First Peoples Educators’ Network
December 5, 2012, Hits:321
Australia’s First Peoples Educators’ Network is a web-based forum to provide a place for discussion, questions and information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators. The Network has been developed by the Australian Education Union in c...
Read moreCultural capital: Improving indigenous results
December 3, 2012, Hits:303
New professional standards will include strategies for teaching Indigenous students to help improve results. After decades of lobbying, moves to include mandatory specialist units on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education for both pre-service a...
Read moreStronger Smarter Summit 2012: "From Rhetoric to Reality”
September 2, 2012, Hits:571
The Stronger Smarter Institute is committed to changing the tide of low expectations in Indigenous education. The Institute is led by renowned Indigenous educator Dr Chris Sarra and is based at the Queensland University of Technology. The theme for ...
Read moreSchool Passport
June 19, 2012, Hits:345
It certainly shows how much the legendary footballer Barry Cable values education when his granddaughter Shelley Cable was named the state’s best indigenous student and ranked in the top 0.5 per cent in WA for a 99.5 TER score at Rossmoyne SHS. Not ...
Read moreRecognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
September 1, 2011, Hits:577
The West Australian Council of Social Service are pleased to invite you to the: Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Social Policy Forum. You may be surprised and alarmed to learn that the Australian Constitution permi...
Read moreNext Week Is NAIDOC Week
June 29, 2011, Hits:959
NAIDOC Week commences Sunday 3 July. The theme this year is ‘Change – the next step is ours’. NAIDOC stands for the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee. Its origins can be traced to the emergence of Aboriginal groups in the 192...
Read moreSorry Day : a reminder of the need to do more
May 27, 2011, Hits:1010
Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda has called on Australians on national Sorry Day today to remember the grief, sorrow and ultimate resilience experienced by members of the Stolen Generations. Commissioner Go...
Read more2011 National Sorry Day Perth
May 17, 2011, Hits:1348
Thursday May 26 is National Sorry Day. Sorry Day began in 1998 to collectively commemorate and express sorrow for members of the Stolen Generations. In Perth, the major event for Sorry Day is organised by the Bringing Them Home Committee and takes pl...
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