Indigenous students

Introduction 
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Jumbunna is a special place for 
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indigenous students to come together to 
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feel supported.  It's a wonderful space 
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where they can study, chat with staff 
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chat with fellow peers, we're really 
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here, we exist to enable their success 
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Jumbunna currently has over 350 students 
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from all different communities from 
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across the nation 
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particularly given that a lot of 
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aboriginal and torres strait islander 
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people are first in their family to come 
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to university Jumbunna then plays the 
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role of their family when they're away 
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from their family. 
Services 
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Jumbunna provides students with a range 
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of services including academic support, 
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learning support, we can help students 
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with housing, 
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we provide meals for students, there's 
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free printing services, there's a 
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computer lab.   We can assist students 
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through a pathways program 
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where we tailor their pathway to 
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university individually, 
Accommodation 
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Coming from Darwin, John Bunner's 
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actually set me up with accommodation 
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here 
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and I found that so helpful you know 
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coming so far from home I don't 
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know what to do and where to go and 
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everything they've done so far has 
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helped shape where I go in my life and 
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especially in Sydney it's a massive city 
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compared to Darwin and 
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yeah I wouldn't be you know as straight 
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and narrow as I am it wasn't for jumping 
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as hell 
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well through Jumbunna they actually 
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support you with giving you an itaz 
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tutor and so that gives you a lot of 
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extra support whether you're you know 
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doing whatever degree there is they have 
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a person there that helps you with 
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whatever it is you're studying and so 
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not only that they have the staff that 
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here are trained and you know they've 
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got you know they know what they're 
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doing so like they're here to support 
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you through it all 
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they've offered me opportunities that I 
Opportunities 
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wouldn't normally have as a student this 
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being actually attending uts.   I would 
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have had to wait a lot longer to 
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actually get in 
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but through Jumbunna they actually made 
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it possible to start and just transfer 
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everything over with no hassle no issues 
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and I was really appreciative of that 
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Jumbunna has supported me through 
Support 
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enabling access to tutors to 
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Counselling, to health advice, we have 
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access to Aunty-Glendra whenever we need 
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to have a chat about something 
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uh even little things by offering us 
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food and drink whenever we come in and 
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it feels like you're you're talking to 
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your mother when you're here even we're all 
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from 
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different places it feels very much like 
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a family.  I would definitely recommend 
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studying at UTS especially if you're 
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Indigenous because the community here 
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they just 
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they're just lovely and they love you 
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and they take you in and doesn't matter 
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where you're from what stage you're at 
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or how much you know how much you don't 
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know they just take you and they show 
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you the way.