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Just three years after graduating from her ACU education degree, Erin Eade has become the first female principal, and the first Aboriginal principal, of Mogo Public School. Located in a […]
In schools across our country, students of all ages are engaging with and learning about the significance, contribution and strength of the First Peoples of our nation. In these same […]
I ’m sitting on the sacred lands of my ancestors at Lake Mungo thinking about the time I w as sitting in the classroom. It is grade 4 and the […]
Here in Townsville Catholic Education, we have been blessed with a very productive relationship with the National Indigenous Australians Agency, formerly operating out of the Department of the Prime Minister […]
Did you know there are more than 130,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholics in Australia? Interestingly, between the last two censuses, this part of the Catholic population was the […]
Australian Catholic schools and the wider Australian community are supporting the empowerment of the marginalised through Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion. Your support of Project Compassion helps to build strong communities […]
Monivae College and the Missioniaires of the Sacred Heart have historically had a long history of educating indigenous students and students from Tapini, PNG and Kiribati. The benefits of a […]
Article Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-21/to-learn-your-country-start-by-learning-its-aboriginal-names/10719890 Learning the Aboriginal meaning of place names will deepen our connection to the land we all live on, say Indigenous historians, at the launch of the ABC’s […]
Formed in late 2013, Catholic School Parents Australia (CSPA) is recognised as the national body representing and advocating for the parents of over 766,000 children and young people who attend […]
In an increasingly diverse society, Catholic educators must understand that young people will be drawn to God through many different pathways. In 2017, Australia’s Catholic bishops conducted a survey of […]
One of the fundamental challenges for humankind is how we respond to change. For John Henry Newman, “to live is to change”. This applies to our work as much as […]
From the time of the industrial revolution through to the end of the 20th century, schools didn’t change all that much. There were advances in curriculum and technology (especially with […]
