Scholarships

Piper Duck grew up in the Riverina town of Tumut in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains – hunting, adventuring, playing sport. She excelled at basketball and had dreams of cracking the college system, but her school didn’t go beyond Year 10. ...

‘Being at uni, I have never been more proud to be Aboriginal,’ says Bronte Charles from her room on campus, and a shiver goes down my spine as I take in what she has just said. ‘I didn’t have a lot of opportunities to connect with ...

It’s one thing to know where you want to go in life. It’s quite another to be aware of what possibilities even exist and know others who have made the leap. For Kyh Samuelsson, who is the first in his family to go to university, the older kids...

Katelyn Mills is a Gamilaraay woman studying a Master of Research in Education. She is from Moree, NSW, and lives in Sydney. She is First in Family having graduated from Macquarie University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Education, majoring in Biology and Ch...

“You’re not going to go to university tomorrow.” They were the words that turned Bryton Johnson’s world upside down. “I was in the city and had just finished my interview for the scholarship when I was told the university was...

‘There just weren’t the facilities to help a student like me excel at school or apply to university,’ remembers Taylor, a law and business undergraduate from the South Coast of New South Wales. ‘Most people didn’t understand ...

As a child, Hong Kong-born Victor Lee harboured dreams of studying medicine overseas. However, in his final years of school, his mother lost her job, which meant there was no money for him to study abroad. Just missing out on getting enough marks to study...

Jessica Kennedy was at the cinema unwinding after a stressful week when she received the email that she was a "First in Family" scholarship recipient. "I kept reading the email over and over again. I was so excited! I must've missed a half hour of the mov...

Raised in rural New South Wales, Danielle Malone was the first person in her family to finish Year 12. Tertiary education, however, seemed an unreachable goal: she hadn’t received the required marks, and it was too expensive for her to consider stud...