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Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland (Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­) and Rio Tinto have signed a multi-million dollar agreement designed to create a sustainable future pipeline of graduates for the mining industry.

10 July 2012

In celebration of NAIDOC Week this week, International House students from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland are joining forces with 16-17 year-old Indigenous youths to increase the number of Indigenous students in tertiary education from just 1.3 per...

4 July 2012

NAIDOC Week, from 1–8 July 2012, is an opportunity for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians to join together to recognise the valuable contribution Indigenous people make to Australia’s national identity.

4 July 2012

Researchers, teachers and students passionate about preserving, promoting and understanding Aboriginal languages met at a Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­-hosted conference recently.

26 April 2012
Attending the 2012 Yalari Horizons Leadership Camp were, from left, Michael Noah from Townsville Grammar, Christine Anu and Denzil Tighe from St Ignatius Riverview.

Indigenous students, celebrities and business leaders came together at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Business School for the 2012 Yalari Horizons Leadership Camp last week.

10 February 2012

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland has welcomed a Federal Government announcement of $67 million as part of a scheme to assist more students from disadvantaged backgrounds attend university.

20 December 2011

A mixture of relief and a touch of sadness are the emotions experienced by Indigenous arts/law student Zoë Cochrane as she readies for her Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ graduation ceremony in mid-December.

12 December 2011
ATSIS acting director Dr Col Dillon with Chair of the Australian Indigenous Education at the University of New South Wales, Professor Martin Nakata

Chair of the Australian Indigenous Education at the University of New South Wales, Professor Martin Nakata, visited Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ this month to share his experience and vision around Indigenous studies.

25 October 2011

In the first program of its kind in Queensland, two University of Queensland (Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­) students will travel to Canada as part of the Queensland Indigenous Student Ambassadors (QISA) program.

13 September 2011
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ linguistics researcher Dr Felicity Meakins with Gurindji woman Violet Wadrill Nanaku

As the number of Aboriginal languages dwindles, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ researchers are intensifying their studies to protect and document those that remain.

2 September 2011
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ occupational therapy student, Kirsty Bailey, with a group of children from The Murri School

Students from the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences have completed their first semester of an inter-professional service with Indigenous children.

23 August 2011
Year 11 student Tiarna Cutmore at the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Gatton campus making the arm gesture used throughout the Which Way? It's My Future camp.

A focus on the future has been on the minds of 40 Indigenous students who took part in a camp held recently at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland’s Gatton, Ipswich and St Lucia campuses.

18 July 2011
Mitjili Napurrula's "Uwalki – Watiya Tjuta" (2005), part of the Painting Country exhibition. Image reproduced courtesy of the artist. Photo: Carl Warner

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­â€™s evolving collection of Indigenous art will be on show from this Saturday as curtains close on NAIDOC Week 2011.

7 July 2011
An image from the Caroline Tennant-Kelly Collection – a funeral takes place in Cherbourg in 1934. Courtesy Kim de Rijke

A surprise discovery made by Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ researchers will come full circle during NAIDOC Week celebrations next Monday.

1 July 2011
Jack Manning Bancroft

Singer Jessica Mauboy and youth mentoring advocate Jack Manning Bancroft are among the young indigenous leaders who will help celebrate NAIDOC Week at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland.

24 June 2011