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Aboriginal Education
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Country comes first
November 08, 2019Mismanagment ... corporate greed and capitalism in this country has killed our rivers
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Get connected, for the sake of your students
November 04, 2019The teaching of Aboriginal culture can lead to deep learning, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Alliance chair Professor Chris Matthews told the Centre for Professional Learning’s recent Aboriginal Education Conference.
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Voice, Treaty, Truth of Uluru Statement begins in the classroom
July 25, 2019Indigenous lawyer and human rights advocate Teela Reid urged the teaching profession to educate students about the real truth of Australia’s history and to embrace the Uluru Statement from the Heart at Federation’s Annual Conference.
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Union vows to escalate push for conditions to improve Aboriginal students’ outcomes
July 10, 2019Federation has committed to intensifying its efforts to the close the gap in Aboriginal education outcomes, with a set of comprehensive policy objectives endorsed by a decision of Federation’s Annual Conference yesterday.
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Uncle Vic recognised for lifetime of enlightening
June 14, 2019The first Aboriginal public school principal in NSW, Uncle Vic Chapman, has been recognised on the Queen’s Birthday honours list for a lifetime of working to improve opportunities for our First Peoples.
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Stolen Generations kit increases knowledge and understanding
May 29, 2019Students at Trangie Central School have started a valuable conversation — to understand the truth and progress the collective healing journey of the Stolen Generations, and acknowledge and correct the past.
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Film about Federation’s advocacy nominated for international award
May 14, 2019From an idea hatched by two lifelong comrades at a Federation Friday Night Forum in 2015, naa muru gurung (to see a path for children) has blazed a trail all the way to the glittering Nice International Film Festival.
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School partners with community on park project
April 12, 2019Members of the Gumbaynggirr community gathered to open the new park in Bellwood Aboriginal Reserve and remember the life of Caleb Jarrett, whose name the park now bears.
