A student at Griffith University has called out a professor for promoting a colonial version of history in a first-year Indigenous Studies class. The complaint has prompted Griffith to change the method of the course's delivery. In a 729-word public post on ...

In 2017, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students constituted approximately six per cent of all Australian school enrollments. Yet, it is well-known that they tend to struggle in this context compared to their non-indigenous peers: their ten point lower school ...

Charles Sturt University (CSU) academics have rewritten sections of mathematics history by studying Indigenous mathematic systems in the Pacific. School of Teacher Education senior lecturer and researcher, Dr Kay Owens, led the study of Indigenous people in Papua New Guinea, ...

A high turnover of healthcare staff in the Northern Territory is putting the lives of Indigenous Australians at risk, and more nursing education is needed, according to a new university report. A recent study by Flinders University professor and Associate ...

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 ...

Indigenous youths are becoming more educated, and are thereby helping to Close the Gap, according to a new report from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). Increased Indigenous vocational completions are driving this change, though they remain behind ...

A bipartisan organisation which has been advocating for improvements in Indigenous education has been cut to the bone and isn’t even able to make its rent after the federal government defunded it in 2014. The National Congress of Australia’s First ...

The Atlantic Philanthropies Foundation – established by American duty-free shopping mogul Chuck Feeney – has made one of its last donations in Australia. It’s pledged US$50 million ($65.8 million) to establish a university fellowship dedicated to tackling social inequity. The ...

“They say education is the key, but they keep changing the locks.” That’s Michael Graham, a 20-year-old Indigenous Charles Sturt University student in The Front Line, a new short film detailing the university experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. ...

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 zero out of 10. Only 1 per cent ...