QATSIF

QATSIF congratulates the record 201 talented entrants in our 2024 QATSIF Creative Arts Competition which was open to all Queensland Year 7 to 12 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. You can view their outstanding artworks at: qatsif.org.au/qatsif-creativ…

Today, we celebrate Mr Mark Brand as he retires from our QATSIF Board after 13 1/2 years of dedicated service. Our QATSIF Patrons, Board, staff, schools and families thank Mark for all that he has done and wish him all the best for the future.

Our QATSIF Term 1, 2024 Newsletter is now available on our website at: qatsif.org.au/newsletters It features our new Round 15 QATSIF Scholarship Recipients and Student Leaders and good news stories about our many deadly young people.

The School Student Broadband Initiative is providing free internet access for eligible families with school-aged children and no current internet access. To find out more, call the National Referral Centre (Monday to Friday) 1800 954 610 or head to 🔗 bit.ly/41UEMYR

🥳 Happy 15th Anniversary! 🎈 QATSIF was created on November 25, 2008 & has supported 18,500 Qld First Nations students (6.8% of all First Nations Queenslanders) with the costs of Year 11 & 12. Here's to 15 deadly years and many more to come.....🖤💛❤💚🤍💙

🥳 Congratulations! Our QATSIF Round 15 (2024) Scholarships have just been approved for all 2246 applicants from across all Queensland secondary schools. 👏🏾 QATSIF - the small Foundation doing BIG THINGS!

Congratulations to the very talented Janice Thompson from Mornington Island State School who received her 1st Place Trophy in the Year 8 Portraiture section of our 2023 QATSIF Creative Arts Competition. Janice pictured with Pa Johnny. Too deadly Janice. Keep up the great work!

Congratulations to Queensland's talented First Nations secondary artists who will soon be receiving their 2023 QATSIF Creative Arts Competition awards. QATSIF thanks Griffith University for supporting our 6th Annual QATSIF Creative Arts Competition. 👏🏽

Congratulations to the deadly Thomas Weatherall (past QATSIF student from Marymount College) who won the Most Outstanding Supporting Actor award at the Logies. Too deadly Tom! 👏🏽

👏🏽 QATSIF is deeply honoured to have been named as 2023 Queensland Philanthropic Foundation of the Year at yesterday's QCF awards amongst so many outstanding organisations & Philanthropists. We thank our Elders & Ancestors, Patrons, Board, staff, students, schools & supporters.

On Sorry Day we light a candle to say sorry for: 🔥 our Stolen Generations who were unjustly taken and for their heartbroken families. 🔥 the current families of our Stolen Generations who experience intergenerational trauma. 🔥 the families who are still being torn apart today.

👏🏽 QATSIF congratulates the deadly Myiesha Yoelu (past QATSIF student) who was named as the overall 7NEWS Young Achiever of the Year. Myiesha is the third past QATSIF student to win this statewide award and 6th to win the First Nations award. QATSIF - #BuildingTomorrowsLeaders

Our 15th Round of QATSIF Scholarships are opening soon for applications from current Year 10 and 11 First Nations students in all Queensland schools. Our QATSIF Scholarships currently support over 3900 Queensland First Nations students.

On Survival Day, we pay tribute to our Elders, past & present for their wisdom, strength & resilience & ask that we may be strengthened by their sacrifices & continue to make them proud by keeping our Cultures alive and continuing their struggle for truth, recognition & justice.

Happy Mother's Day! 💐 On Mother's Day, we pay tribute to all of our deadly mums, grandmas and Elders whose strength, guidance, love & compassion have made us the people we are today. Thanks to our wonderful QATSIF mums who are at the very heart of our Foundation.🖤💛❤️💚🤍💙

Calling 📣 all Year 7 - 12 Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. Please see your school for an entry form. Griffith University will be sponsoring our competition again this year. To check out our 2021 entries, please go to: youtu.be/jMNHGYIMCz8

QATSIF congratulates our Round 11 graduates, their families, communities and schools on their outstanding achievements in 2021. Our schools reported on the post-school destinations of 1256 QATSIF 2021 graduates within the first three months (Dec 21 - Feb 22) of leaving school.

Jasmine Armstrong, the 5th QATSIF student in 7 years to be named as Qld's Highest Achieving Aboriginal Student and/or Torres Strait Islander Student. She was also awarded a 2021 QATSIF Young Achiever Award, was named as dux of her school and was accepted into Medicine at UQ.

On International Women’s Day, QATSIF pays tribute to the many deadly women at the heart of our Foundation - Aunty Ruth Hegarty (Patron), Jane Ceolin (Acting Chair), Sonia Norbido, Teagan Olssen & Shalana Uta (Project Officers) & Renee Blackman & Kellie McDonald (Board Members).

Our 2022 QATSIF team (L to R) are: Mike Nayler, Sonia Norbido, Teagan Olssen and Shalana Uta. We are very proud of their great work supporting 3900 student scholarships across 380 Queensland schools.