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SIR the label gives back for Autumn Winter ’18 Campaign

SIR the label is paying homage to the land they call home by giving back to the territory at the heart of their new AW’18 campaign. The label will be donating a percentage of their online sales for preorders to Northern Territory organisation the Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Ter
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Future leaders shine at Graduation

L-R: Nerida Riley (Alice Springs NT), Michael Roberts (Adelaide SA) and Shirley Turner (Sandy Bore NT) At the recent Batchelor Institute graduation ceremony at the Desert People’s Centre Campus in Alice Springs we celebrated the 100th person to graduate from the Preparation for
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Leading researchers converge in Central Australia

Barbara Napanangka Martin from Yuendumu School speaking at Knowledge Intersections   Prominent researchers and academics gathered at the Desert Peoples Centre in Alice Springs to highlight and share the innovative and ground-breaking research coming out of central Australia. Batc
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Forum Highlights Importance of First Nations Language Centres

L-R Front: Leonie Palmer (Arrernte elder), MK Turner (Arrernte elder), Isaiah Taylor (Maningrida College delegate), Bonaventure Ngarri (Wadeye Language Centre). L-R Back: Cindy Jinmarabynana (Maningrida College delegate), Felicity Hayes (Arrernte traditional owner, for Antulye group),
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Students show off art design

Click on the photo above to view gallery photos   by Kieran Finnane The bounty of the bush – closely observed, its creatures, plant forms, patterns, colours distilled by artists who call it home – is the wellspring for the contemporary desert design of Batchelor Institute visual
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Rising Indigenous workforce in Australia’s heartland ‘Alice Springs’

Click on the photo above to view gallery photos The graduation ceremony is a testimony to the rising Indigenous workforce in Australia’s heartland ‘Alice Springs’ as 176 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from many communities from the Northern Territory, Queensland, South
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Central Graduation 2013

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from around 50 communities from the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia will gather to receive their formal qualifications at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education graduation ceremony t
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Science Week Open Day, Alice Springs

Over 300 families and representatives from organisations in Alice Springs and surrounding communities joined the knowledge building interactive activities at the Desert Knowledge Precinct (DKP) at the South Stuart Highway, opposite Yirara College, Alice Springs, Northern Territory for
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Students have ‘write stuff’ for film

Indigenous students from around the country met at the Desert Peoples Centre (DPC) in Alice Springs last week for a workshop on Writing for Film, a unit in the Diploma in Creative Indigenous Writing offered through the Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Education (ACIKE).
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Controlling weeds with literacy

Indigenous workforce participants experienced the opportunity to improve their literacy and numeracy outcomes in Conservation and Land Management (CLM) studies at a ‘Weed Control and Apply Chemicals’ workshop provided by Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
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