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This bush uni prepares students to be doctors and business owners, but first, they must learn about culture

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It's a university like no other, in one of the remotest places in Australia, where less than 1 per cent of Indigenous students go on to higher education. This is 'bush uni', and this cohort is days away from graduating.

At just 20 years old, Ms Yibarbuk was already working as a ranger in Gunbalanya.

On top of mastering university-level assignments, the students have learnt about bush medicines, kinship systems, local history and the impacts of colonisation.Dennis Daniels grew up on the traditional country of the Budal Yutpundji-Milwarapara people in Urapunga and was an assistant teacher in Ngukurr."This course has made a big difference in my life because of the western and cultural way of learning," Mr Daniels said.

The students have learnt about bush medicines, kinship systems, local history and the impacts of colonisation.And after years of seeing the health clinic flounder due to understaffing issues, he is hoping to gain qualifications as an Aboriginal health worker. In just a couple of months, Melissa Wurramarrba will be Ngukurr's first university graduate since Kevin Rogers completed his degree at Deakin in the mid-1980s.

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What mean “to get out of community and back onto country” pls and ty

“After year 12, there are no pathways to university for [young Aboriginal people],' Mr Rogers, a co-founder of the Bush university, said.” This sounds like a failure of Govt schools. Graduating yr 12 without skills needed for Uni is a Govt education problem?

University degree in weaving bits of grass, followed by non-job for life as a 'ranger' complete with obligatory Toyota 4wd and unlimited free diesel. Truly the most downtrodden and oppressed people in human history.

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