NEWS AND MEDIA

Helping Indigenous boys and girls choose the futures they aspire to is at the heart of AIEF’s mission, writes Executive Director Andrew Penfold in The Australian.

The Australian reports on the outstanding results achieved by AIEF Scholarship Students during the height of the pandemic.

Sky News Australia follows a group of AIEF Scholarship Students in the one-hour special documentary Changing Our Nation.

The disruption of COVID-19 in 2020 led to falling school attendance rates in Indigenous Australia, particularly in remote communities.

Three AIEF Scholarship students from remote communities who now attend The Scots College in Sydney appear in The Australian, discussing their hopes and dreams for after finishing Year 12.

AIEF Corporate Partner Commonwealth Bank has been named in AFR BOSS Magazine’s 2021 ranking of Australia’s best places to work.

Corporate giving reached an all-time high in Australia in 2020 and we weren’t surprised to see that many of AIEF’s major partners and supporters were among the most generous donors

Five AIEF-BHP Tertiary Scholars have recently graduated from university, bringing the total number of AIEF-BHP Tertiary Graduates to 21 to date.

AIEF Scholarship Students and sisters Amelya and Lilly (St Monica’s College, Cairns) feature in the Cape and Torres News about their career aspirations and their role in the Sky News Australia documentary Changing Our Nation.

AIEF Graduate Injarra Harbour (St Joseph’s Nudgee College) discusses his aspirations to study medicine and close the life expectancy gap in Indigenous communities in an opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph.

AIEF Graduate Injarra (St Joseph’s Nudgee College) talks to The Longreach Leader about discussing his goals and dreams in the Sky News Changing Our Nation documentary.

AIEF Scholarship Student Kirrah Stothers (Seymour College, Adelaide) features in the NT News about her appearance in the Sky News Changing Our Nation documentary.