Universities aim to dramatically increase indigenous enrolments

By Tony Wright
Updated March 1 2017 - 1:18am, first published 12:15am
The late Dr Margaret Williams-Weir, the first recorded Aboriginal person to enrol in a university course in Australia, with Indigenous students and staff (from left) Genevieve Grieves, Kate Rendell, Lilly Brown and Clinton Benjamin, at Melbourne University in 2014. Photo: Peter Casamento
The late Dr Margaret Williams-Weir, the first recorded Aboriginal person to enrol in a university course in Australia, with Indigenous students and staff (from left) Genevieve Grieves, Kate Rendell, Lilly Brown and Clinton Benjamin, at Melbourne University in 2014. Photo: Peter Casamento

Australia's Indigenous people developed sophisticated knowledge systems for thousands of generations before the first university was created, Lilly Brown says.

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