Australian Indigenous Education

The sixth annual update on Closing the Gap provides an unsurprising picture of slow progress on addressing issues of Indigenous disadvantage. The update presents a mixed bag of small improvements in life…

In 2002, Jeannie Herbert Nungarrayi, formerly a Warlpiri teacher at the Lajamanu School in the Tanami Desert of the Northern Territory, where I worked for many years first as a linguist and then as school…...

Australians may be well versed in the heroics of Anzac Diggers but it took a Belgian to ask why the contribution of indigenous soldiers had not been recognised a century after World War I.

Dumbartung is a Nyoongah  grass roots advocacy agency working to alleviate the suffering of trauma and pain associated with past Government policies of dispossession, displacement and  religious disinheritance.

Dumbartung ‘s belief is that as Aboriginal people we need to rejuvenate our cultural belief system as a means of ensuring the strength of our future generations identity and spiritual growth, that will help sustain our young people’s lives in a changing and challenging world.

A new Menzies TV campaign illustrating the health disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations is airing nationally across the Seven Network. View the Menzies TVC here.

My hope for the future is that we have a treaty in place, where the government starts to operate within an Aboriginal constitution and Aboriginal law – not the other way around, where Aboriginal people are forced to assimilate into a process of westernisation. My other hope is to have our law and culture taught throughout primary school, high school, and in universities. We want to use all the advantages of modern technology – but from the safety of our own culture. That would be the most perfect world.

Indigenous Australians have long held their own seasonal calendars based on the local sequence of natural events. To the right is a map of Australia with hyperlinks to the corresponding seasonal calendars for given regions.

To access a seasonal calendar, select its red dot.

Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation strives to empower the healing of our people?

The Clontarf Foundation exists to improve the education, discipline, life skills, self-esteem and employment prospects of young Aboriginal men and by doing so equips them to participate meaningfully in society.

Since opening its first Academy for 25 boys in 2000 the Foundation has grown to cater for about 2,900 boys in 54 schools across Western Australia, Northern Territory, Victoria and New South Wales.

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is the world’s premier institution for information and research about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, past and present.

The Institute undertakes and encourages scholarly, ethical community-based research, holds a priceless collection of films, photographs, video and audio recordings and the world’s largest collections of printed and other resource materials for Indigenous Studies, and has its own publishing house.

Its activities affirm and raise awareness among all Australians, and people of other nations, of the richness and diversity of Australian Indigenous cultures and histories.

AIATSIS is a Commonwealth statutory authority within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Previously to the new administrative arrangements announced on 18 September 2013, AIATSIS was within the Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIICCSRTE) portfolio.