Australian Indigenous Education

For fifteen years, teacher candidates from Melbourne have learned on Yolŋu Country in bilingual classrooms, showing what respectful collaboration between universities and Indigenous communities can look like

As NAIDOC week celebrates the theme 'Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud', the conditions are ripe for increased First Language learning across Australia’s schools

An Indigenous-led book challenges the presumption that universities make only ‘good’ contributions to the community – confronting the University of Melbourne’s disturbing history

The Australian Curriculum’s deeper engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures is a matter of national importance

Barriers to education can be broken down when we support the diverse ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people develop, produce and translate knowledge

Schools are part of a system of colonial rule that is not easily overwritten; the education system and teachers must work to understand and challenge structural racism

A new online resource – the 50 Words Project – makes words from local Indigenous languages available for every Australian to hear and learn

In the Indigenous Homelands of East Arnhem Land, pre-service teachers are learning the value of place and listening

Identifying developmental difficulties in young children from remote Aboriginal communities early boosts their chances of success later in life, and a new tool is helping

After almost a decade of updates we look at what really needs to change to Close the Gap