CAEPR Seminar Series
The CAEPR Seminar Series is back on ! The timetable below lists the upcoming exciting seminars. Date Title Speaker/s 28-Jul Indigenous organisations: Issues for Policy and Practice Di…
At Yirrkala School, bilingual education has become a model for remote Aboriginal learning
In bushland near the school in Yirrkala community in north-east Arnhem Land, students gather around smouldering coals covered by smoking bark and leaves. They're participating in the cultural…
Indigenous students graduate high school by learning on country
It's a special trick handed down over generations — how to catch fish using the power of plants. On the sands of a creek bed on the edge of west Arnhem Land's stone country, Aboriginal elder Laura…
The Learning on Country program now runs in 15 schools across the Top End
This program is being hailed as a game changer as a growing number of Aboriginal students graduate high school and move on to full time employment. https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/the-learning-…
Growing number of Aboriginal communities setting up independent schools to teach 'both ways'
CAEPR's Deputy Director Dr Bill Fogarty, speaks to Emma Masters on two way education. On the rocky, stone country of the Arnhem Land plateau, in one of the remotest corners of Australia, students…
ANU partners with Aboriginal Victoria to deliver expert advice
The ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) has entered into a new partnership with Aboriginal Victoria. The initial two year partnership is among the first of its kind in Victoria…
Professor Tony Dreise writes about Indigenous Affairs in this year's budget
The Federal Budget focuses heavily on politically sensitive issues for the Government. Aged care and women’s initiatives are prime examples. It is perhaps not surprising that the Indigenous affairs…