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Aurora Project Native Title Internships
About the native title internship program The Program introduces anthropology, law and social sciences students to career opportunities in native title, policy, social justice and Indigenous affairs and aims to provide assistance to under-resourced and over-worked Native Title Representative Bodies (NTRBs) and Native Title Service Providers (NTSPs) as well as various other organisations working in these areas including Indigenous corporations, government bodies, community groups, not-for-profit and policy organisations.
History of the internship program The student placements program has been placing law students at NTRBs and other organisations since 2003. In winter 2006, the program expanded to include anthropology students and in 2007 was diversified further to include other social science students (including archaeology, cultural heritage, environmental management, history, human geography and sociology students). The program continues to attract enthusiastic participation by university students as well as graduates and has grown significantly since its inception when 15 students were placed at 10 NTRBs. To date, the program has received a total of 1,628 applications (comprised of 1,383 legal, 135 anthropology and 110 other social science). We now have 515 alumni of the internship program (407 legal, 68 anthropology and 40 other social science). From the Project’s inception, 60 legal internship alumni from 22 universities are working, have worked or are about to commence working at NTRBs as a result of the legal internship and locum placement program, and an additional 6 lawyers are working at NTRBs as a result of the Australian Government - Rio Tinto Scholarship Program. Twenty seven law graduates have taken up full-time positions as a result of the Aurora internship and scholarship programs which is around 30% of the number of lawyers workings in NTRBs at the time of our April 2005 Report. In addition, 14 anthropology internship alumni are currently working in the system. Five of these are in full-time positions, which is around 11% of the 45 anthropologists in the NTRB system at the time of the 2004 Anthropos Report.
The 15 NTRBs including 5 NTSPs
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Other Organisations involved in the student placement program
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