New programme to improve literacy in Indigenous communities

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With illiteracy levels in some remote aboriginal communities as high as 93%, education programmes are the way forward. Sonia Gentile spoke to New South Wales’ coordinator of Aboriginal Education, Frank Pearce, and to former swimming star, Ian Thorpe, about his “Fountain for Youth” literacy programme.

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