Mooroop College

Update: Defending Melbourne's Aboriginal school

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 17/12/2010 - 9:53pm

Below is an update from the Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective from the 16th December
We have been supporting the campaign to defend Ballerrt Mooroop College because we think a great injustice is occurring. The imposition of this non-Indigenous school on Aboriginal land is an attack on the idea of educating in a cultural way. Simply put, it is an extension of cultural genocide against Aboriginal people.

Geography:

Melbourne

Keywords:

Mooroop College

Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective

Campaign to defend Mooroop College steps up

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/12/2010 - 6:57pm

There is escalating anger and resistance amongst sections of the local Indigenous community to a government attack on an Aboriginal school in Melbourne. Ballerrt Mooroop College is the only school in Melbourne explicitly for Indigenous students. In operation since 1996, it runs with the assistance of minimal government funding, and is now is having part of its school grounds appropriated for another school (Glenroy Special School).

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Victoria

Keywords:

indiginous rights

Mooroop College