In our group’s artefact creation, we choose the topic of indigenous education and after our group discussion we decided to focus on the question: can media representation of indigenous education be challenged? The reason why our group choose this particular topic is because we all think indigenous education is a big issue in Australian education and we want to challenge the negative media representation. We have four group members: Vince Wang, Zachary Johns, Cliantha Tanea and I (Linting Chen). As we decided to challenge to media representation, we explored the context, media representations and the improvements have being made in indigenous education so far.

The significance of this issue
There is a large gap between indigenous and non-indigenous. Indigenous are disadvantaged result in health, education and employment compared to the non-indigenous. That’s why it is significant to examine the idea of whether the mainstream media grant any positive outcomes of indigenous.
The negative sides of indigenous Australian are reported by the media particularly the news. Therefore, general public always gain an understanding that indigenous are lower than non-indigenous Australians. At the later stage the idea has changed through the education, media used the term ‘gap’ to describe the inequality problems of indigenous and non-indigenous. There are some improvements being made such as government policies or campaigns which make contributions to ‘close the gap’ or improve the indigenous education out comes but the negative aspects still be emphasized by the media.

The significance of challenging the negative media representations is to detect if the disadvantages can be changed by positive media reporting, furthermore will it be effective in increasing the educational outcomes of indigenous