Northern Territory - Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education and the Australian Defence Force

The Army Indigenous Defence Program (AIDP) creates pathways to employment in the Australian Defence Force for young Indigenous Australian adults under a military-structured training strategy. Since 2013, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education and the Australian Defence Force (ADF) have collaborated to deliver the AIDP, which focusses on reading, writing and fitness. Of more than 300 applicants to the AIDP from across Australia, 30 are placed in the five-month intensive residential program, held on the Batchelor campus.