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Migrant students outperforming native English speakers: NAPLAN results
SBS
Nationally, the group had a higher mean scale score by 31 points, compared to the native English speaking students. It is a marked contrast from the Year 1 results for migrant students when hundreds start school with limited or no English language ...
Children from migrant families are standout performers in spelling, NAPLAN results showABC Online
High school reading stalls in NAPLAN 'wake-up call'The Australian
NAPLAN 2017: results have largely flat-lined, and patterns of inequality continueThe Conversation AU

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EducationHQ Australia
Woeful scores for Indigenous NT students
EducationHQ Australia
The more remote an Aboriginal NT child lives, the less likely they are to attain the national minimum standard, with 92 per cent of Year 9 Indigenous students in very isolated regions failing to reach that benchmark for reading. In stark contrast, 92 ...

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National Indigenous Times
Mundine: 'My mates call me a media tart'
National Indigenous Times
One of Indigenous Australia's most influential political figures has revealed he doesn't believe Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has “any real interest in Indigenous affairs”. Warren Mundine makes the claim in his new autobiography Warren Mundine: In ...

National Indigenous Times
New song captures Elijah's spirit
National Indigenous Times
Some of Australia's most recognisable names in Indigenous music have released a song in memory of 14-year-old Elijah Doughty, whose death in Western Australia last year sparked riots in the Goldfields town of Kalgoorlie and protests around Australia ...

National Indigenous Times
'Rising levels of racism' concern UN
National Indigenous Times
Pic: Australian Human Rights Commission. The United Nations says it is concerned at rising levels of racism, discrimination and xenophobia in Australia and that Indigenous people, migrants and refugees are bearing the brunt of racist hate speech and ...

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National Indigenous Times
'Rising levels of racism' concern UN
National Indigenous Times
Pic: Australian Human Rights Commission. The United Nations says it is concerned at rising levels of racism, discrimination and xenophobia in Australia and that Indigenous people, migrants and refugees are bearing the brunt of racist hate speech and ...

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National Indigenous Times
UN report damns widespread discrimination
National Indigenous Times
Indigenous Australians face persistent challenges and discrimination in all aspects of their life, a United Nations committee has said in a new report. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said attempts to close the gaps between ...

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National Indigenous Times
25 years on, Karla laments lack of change
National Indigenous Times
The secret to Australia's queen of Indigenous television Karla Grant's seemingly endless energy may well lie in a treadmill in a Sydney gym. For a decade and a half, Grant has maintained a breakneck pace as one of NITV's most recognisable faces — the ...

National Indigenous Times
$23m capital injection for WA community
National Indigenous Times
One of Australia's most remote Aboriginal communities, Tjuntjuntjara in Western Australia's Great Victoria Desert, is to get a $23.8 million capital injection in the form of major capital works and essential services, WA Housing Minister Peter Tinley ...

National Indigenous Times
Tricia Button breaks new ground at ILC
National Indigenous Times
Tricia Button has been appointed the new deputy chief executive officer of the Indigenous Land Corporation — the first Indigenous woman to hold the job. Mrs Button joined the ILC in 2015 as the divisional manager of the eastern division and was later ...

National Indigenous Times
Traditional languages bring Pop to life
National Indigenous Times
Language speakers and custodians from across the state travelled to Sydney to record the audio books. “My Weekend with Pop is us recognising communities still speak language and there is a lot of amazing work happening around language revitalisation ...

National Indigenous Times
Traditional languages bring Pop to life
National Indigenous Times
She said the project had grown out of the library's Rediscovering Indigenous Languages project. “In 2011 we had linguist Dr Michael Walsh come in and basically mine the original manuscripts of the library,” Ms Thorpe said. “He identified significant ...

ABC Online
Organ transplant system 'tipped towards non-Indigenous patients'
ABC Online
Dr Paul Lawton, a specialist at the Menzies School of Health Research, said Australian kidney specialists were "well meaning" but that structural racism had led to unacceptably low transplant rates for Aboriginal patients. He said Australia's system ...
New Vatican publication highlights Indigenous art, cultureCatholic Outlook (press release) (blog)

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ABC Online
Organ transplant system 'tipped towards non-Indigenous patients'
ABC Online
Dr Paul Lawton, a specialist at the Menzies School of Health Research, said Australian kidney specialists were "well meaning" but that structural racism had led to unacceptably low transplant rates for Aboriginal patients. He said Australia's system ...
New Vatican publication highlights Indigenous art, cultureCatholic Outlook (press release) (blog)

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ABC Online
Central Australian men's council creates rulebook for remote Aboriginal residents visiting Alice Springs town camps
ABC Online
Learning to drink without fighting, not camping at sacred sites, and respecting other people's wives and sisters are just some of the rules set out by a group of Central Australian men working to reduce anti-social behaviour and crime. The Tangentyere ...

Catholic Outlook (press release) (blog)
New Vatican publication highlights Indigenous art, culture
Catholic Outlook (press release) (blog)
When people think of the Vatican Museums, minds turn to Michelangelo and Raphael. But a new book celebrates the prominent place of Indigenous Australian art and culture on display at the much-visited attraction. Australia – The Vatican Museums ...

Riverine Herald
Indigenous festival has magic touch
Riverine Herald
The festival, organised by Echuca's Clayton Murray-Mitchell, was a celebration of Indigenous culture that saw hundreds of Indigenous Australians, representing the many peoples of Victoria and NSW, come to the town. The centrepoint of the festival was a ...

Teacher Magazine
Civic knowledge, understanding and engagement
Teacher Magazine
There were also achievement gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students nationally. In Year 6, 20 per cent of Indigenous students reached the proficient standard compared to 56 per cent of non-Indigenous students; the percentages for Year 10 ...
Australian students beguiled by allure of the cultural leftThe Australian

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ABC Online
Nurse stood down for racist social media rant, employment lawyer says breaches are common
ABC Online
"Such a person, because of the professional duty that they have, has a duty of care for everybody, and that includes black kids as well as non-black kids." Ms Farrer, herself a Gija woman, said being drunk was no excuse for the comments. She said there ...

ABC Online
Nurse stood down for racist social media rant, employment lawyer says breaches are common
ABC Online
"Such a person, because of the professional duty that they have, has a duty of care for everybody, and that includes black kids as well as non-black kids." Mr Farrer, herself an Gija woman, said being drunk was no excuse for the comments. She said ...

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