Overview

Copyright Aurora Project 2012

The legal internship program has since expanded to include anthropology and some social science students and graduates, now placed at the 15 NTRBs and at 60 other Indigenous corporations, government bodies, community groups, not-for-profit and policy organisations Australia-wide.

More recently, Aurora piloted the placement of business interns at NTRBs and other organisations.

The internship program, combined with Aurora’s training and professional development program, support the recruitment and retention of staff at NTRBs in particular.
  

The internship program now

More than 900 internship placements have been arranged as at summer 2011/12.

The program continues to attract enthusiastic participation by students and graduates from universities across Australia as well as overseas, with over 2,600 applications received and more than 900 internship placements arranged, as at summer 2011/12.

Internships - making a difference

• 35 law graduates have taken up full-time positions at NTRBs as a result of the internship program, which is over 40% of the number of full-time lawyers in the NTRB system at the time of our April 2005 Report
• 20 anthropology graduates have taken up full-time positions at NTRBs as a result of the internship program which is over 40% of the 45 full-time anthropologists in the NTRB system at the time of the 2004 Anthropos Report. In addition, two social science (one archaelogy) have taken up full-time positions at NTRBs 
• The program has arranged 35 Australian Indigenous internship placements (28 legal, four anthropology and three other social science), six of which have led to full-time positions in the NTRB system.  An additional two Canadian Aboriginal placements were arranged.
• Over 23% of our alumni are working or have worked in paid positions in native title or Indigenous affairs more broadly.