'Human rights violation': Inside Northern Territory's shocking outback schools 

'Human rights violation': Inside Northern Territory's shocking outback schools The NT school system is failing students by leaving at least one in five effectively unfunded, offering an education so bad that most fail minimum literacy and numeracy standards. In a special investigation by The Australian, we head to Gamardi, a homeland with a school teaching seven students - none of whom have had a consistent teacher, running water or power. An estimated annual funding shortfall of $214.8m is contributing to such low standards that some say it amounts to a human rights violation. In the NT, 58% of all students and 85% of Indigenous students fall below minimum literacy and numeracy standards, and attendance rates are as low as 20% in some remote schools. Experts claim the Territory has the country’s worst educational outcomes because of an “inequitable” funding system that discriminates against remote Indigenous communities by giving less money to schools with low ­attendance rates. 📰 Read the full story: bit.ly/455INJU Connect With The Australian Online 🖥 www.theaustralian.com.au Follow Us: Facebook ► facebook.com/theaustralian Instagram ► bit.ly/39w5T2j Twitter ► twitter.com/australian LinkedIn ► www.linkedin.com/company/1008560/admin/feed/posts/ 🎧 Podcast ► www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/the-front/podcast/7e7d42e8c77b597cf8532d2e0c847e10 🎥 Subscribe To Our RU-vid Channel: bit.ly/1OT7tw4 #breakingnews #news #headlinenews

This is a good intentioned man and kids who deserve the same as everyone else.. How is it possible that those standards are acceptable given the resources allocated? And will a Voice do anything about this (as opposed to being a vehicle for the Canberra class to the exclusion of the remainder of Aboriginals?)

This has been forwarded to the Prime Minister, not that it will do the slightest good. Expect he will handball it to Ms Burney. Today I came across a video posted on RU-vid by the Australian. It documents the deplorable conditions in a School detailed as follows. Dale Pasco is the traditional owner of Gamardi, an Aboriginal homeland community in the heart of Arnhem Land. What in heaven’s name is your Minister of Aboriginal Affairs doing to address similar situations throughout Aboriginal Communities. It’s no great wonder that children drop out of schools with such a terrible environment that they are expected to learn in. If this was the case for large populated towns and cities you would hear the cries of parents even in camera. What is your government doing to address these situations❓ How will The Voice change matters on the ground for the children’s futures❓

Mother Earth Bless you all 💙❤

If things arent available create them for yourselves just what early white settlers had to do from nothing Shame that kids are getting a poor deal from NT

Wow! I never expected this in australia.

It's not about race. Any child in a remote area suffers educational disadvantage. Need is NOT based on race. Education is for everyone regardless of colour in Australia, and the fact is it was available to black and white children right back into the 1800's. You have to realise that education was not even compulsory for children in Australia until 1872. Australia led the world in doing this. The Catholic Church was a big contributor in providing education to Aboriginal children and St Mary McKillop is one great example....Also of interest, Aboriginal men in Australia were voting before white women got the vote here and around the world! They don't teach that in the poisonous neo-Marxist curriculum of our schools, do they now!

Not another aboriginal whinging story. So over these people. Let's move on plaaalese !!!

These so called land councils should get off their asses and start supporting the local community with permanent teachers, power and other resources for the local communities. Instead they are lining their pockets with money from the TAXPAYERS. So get your hands out of your greedy pockets and HELP your fellow citizens.