Yirara College

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Yirara College is a 24-hour-7-days-per-week boarding school. The school was established in 1975 as a government secondary residential college for Aboriginal students from isolated central Australian communities. In 1993 Yirara College became a non-government provider of education, changing its name to Yirara College of the Finke River Mission Inc, under the auspices of the Lutheran Church of Australia. This change was made in part because as a non-government Aboriginal college, the majority of funding would come from federal, rather than territory, government sources and in part because the Aboriginal members of the school governing council supported the move to Christian education.
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Coordinates:   23°45'43"S   133°52'10"E
This article was last modified 19 years ago