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We were thrilled to receive an update recently from former Fairfield High student, Serena Zhang who took part in GOALS in 2009. Here Serena met her mentor Jill Shapiro from Investec, where the two developed a...

Lisa Phung was one of thousands of refugees who fled Communist Vietnam in the early 1980s. Only three years old when her father was captured by the government for  ‘re-education’, she escaped by boat with...

The Scholarship Foundation hit the ground running this year, welcoming 15 new scholars to the program. Our highest number yet, this latest cohort of students represent NSW, Victoria, Queensland and our first ever recipient from...

In January this year, ABCN merged with Melbourne-based Schools Connect Australia (SCA), enabling the national roll-out of Business Class under the ABCN name and significantly broadening our reach. Business Class is unique in that it...

Business Class launches in WA; Foundation update; Paying it forward; Where are they now?

ABCN Media Release: Australian Business and Community Network (ABCN) and Schools Connect Australia (SCA) merge

In 2010, Jennifer Truong from Cabramatta High School was the recipient of the KPMG and ABCN Doug Jukes Memorial Scholarship – the framework of which was to inspire the launch of ABCN’s Scholarship Foundation three years later. Although initially...

A bond that began back in 2005, the partnership between MinterEllison and Glenala State High School in Queensland has produced some incredible outcomes and inspirational stories. One such story is that of former student, Lee Vo....

Pregnant at the age of 14 and a self-confessed rebel, WA student Ashleigh Lindsay admits many of her teachers and even some of her family thought she would never amount to anything. But Ashleigh had...