NEWS AND MEDIA

The Future Generation Investment Company (FGX) has donated to the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF) as part of a total $3.84 million donation to Australian charities for the 2017 financial year.

AIEF Scholarship students Nikita Kearney and Bailey Widders speak to The Australian at the AIEF Year 12 Graduation ceremony for NSW, VIC and WA schools, about the opportunities they have embraced through education.

Solicitor Kygim King tells The Weekend Australian how her AIEF Scholarship set her on a path to becoming the first person in her family to graduate from university.

Business Pulse reports from the launch of the AIEF 2016 Annual Report, hosted by KPMG in Sydney.

Andrew Penfold speaks to The Deal about what AIEF is doing to change the narrative from Indigenous disadvantage to success.

The Australian announces AIEF’s 2016 outcomes and speaks to one of the 97 graduates who made up the AIEF class of 2016.

In February 2017 AIEF established a QLD team to support the state’s large cohort of AIEF Scholarship Students and Graduates, who previously received support from the AIEF team in Sydney.

Madison is one of 14 AIEF students taking part in the WEX program, which brings young Indigenous Australians to Canberra to see how government works and see themselves as future leaders of our nation.

Scholarship graduate and law student Jerone Wills speaks to The Weekend Australian about his journey from Palmerston to study in Brisbane and a second internship with HSBC.

The ninth Closing the Gap report reveals that only one of the seven Closing the Gap targets – Year 12 attainment – is on track to halve the gap by 2020. An editorial in The Australian following the release of the report calls on the government to back programs that produce proven results and highlights the success of AIEF students and graduates.

AIEF General Manager, Strategy and Policy, Renée Coffey discusses the power of education to change the course of a young person’s life at TEDx Ipswich.

The Weekend Australian speaks to AIEF-BHP Billiton Scholarship Student Jakheen Coaby and his mentor Rob Carruthers from BHP Billiton.