Tag: Aurukun

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Aurukun locals sitting on $120m trust

Aerial view of Aurukun on the western Cape.

via Aurukun locals sitting on $120m trust

Indigenous Australia

Aurukun parents, cleaners chip in to help deliver education to children amid school closure crisis – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The ABC goes inside Aurukun’s school and speaks to parents of children who are desperately concerned that their children will slip behind in reading and writing.

Source: Aurukun parents, cleaners chip in to help deliver education to children amid school closure crisis – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Indigenous Issues

Aurukun teachers evacuated over safety fears, ‘slow’ police response probed – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Twenty-five teachers and staff are leaving Aurukun after a group of youths, one brandishing an axe, allegedly stole the principal’s car and tried to break into two teachers’ homes.

Source: Aurukun teachers evacuated over safety fears, ‘slow’ police response probed – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)