In January 2023, ex-Tropical Cyclone Ellie dumped a week of heavy rain on the Fitzroy River catchment in north west WA. It resulted in the worst flooding in the state’s history, destroying more than 100 homes and businesses in the remote community of Fitzroy Crossing and cutting the town off from fresh food, fuel and […]
Inspiration begins at home for Tarniesha Read More »
Yalari was founded on the philosophy of paying it forward: just as Mrs Rosemary Bishop paved the way for Waverley Stanley to attend Toowoomba Grammar School, Waverley has paid it forward by offering the same opportunity to more than 700 young Indigenous children just like him. That pay it forward ideal is now driving the
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Russell Whap and Mismam Kris grew up less than 50kms away from each other in the Torres Strait. They’re the same age – second cousins (“or maybe third?” they questioned). And, at the end of Year 6, they were both heading to the same high school. And yet they’d never met until they boarded a
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In 2008, Yalari welcomed its third cohort of Rosemary Bishop Scholarship recipients: 25 wide-eyed Year 7 students from all over Australia. Among them was Marley Holloway-Clarke from Devonport, Tasmania who was heading off to board at Scotch Oakburn College in Launceston. Even in those early days, Marley was following in the footsteps of her big
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“My nan said to me: ‘You can only make one big decision in your life and that’s to go and do something with it.’” Isaiah Missen, now in Year 8 at Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie) in Brisbane on a Yalari scholarship, looked to his family for their support and guidance as he began his
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Yalari student, Noami Buchanan was in Year 10 at The Glennie School when she was told she needed braces. “I was trying to go through the public system with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service, but it was a very slow process with a very long waiting list.” But then along came
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Once again, I find myself in the heart of Australia as I write to you. After our Orientation Camp in January, where our new scholars met up with our current Year 8 students and a dozen senior leaders and alumni, I headed out west as all our students, Year 7 to Year 12, began the
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Watch the highlight video from our Brisbane Gala Dinner.
2023 Yalari Brisbane Gala Dinner Highlight – Video Read More »
As the days become warmer throughout the country, I’m writing to you from the wheatbelt area of Western Australia completing the last of our student interviews across Australia. The hopeful joy and reserved nervousness of the families and children takes me back to over 40 years ago to when my parents and I were visiting
A Message from Yalari’s Founder – Newsletter September 2023 Read More »
Yalari respects our Elders, past and present, and acknowledges that our office is on Kombumerri country within the lands of the Yugambeh language group.
