Portrait of Indigenous Australian Prime Minister to raise funds for Aboriginal education

indigenous pmA campaign has been launched featuring a future-gazing portrait of an indigenous Australian Prime Minister.

The Australian Indigenous Education Fund (AIEF) launched the campaign – aiming to raise raise $100 million to educate 7,000 Aboriginal students _  in two near full page ads in The Australian today, and the cause also captured a front page picture story on the cause.

Archibald Prize finalist Mathew Lyn painted the portrait featured in the first ad with the line ‘This will never happen’.

On the following page another ad of the same size states, ‘We say it can’, and includes details of the AIEF’s track record.

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