How our donors are changing the world

Our generous donors have provided scholarships to deserving students, enhanced world-changing research and helped to educate our leaders of tomorrow.

Read the personal stories of how the kindness of Macquarie University donors has impacted others.

“I thought I’d end up being a labourer.”

Piper Duck grew up in the Riverina town of Tumut in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains – hunting, adventuring, playing sport. She excelled at basketball. But her school didn’t go beyond Year 10. “I didn’t think I was intelligent....

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I want to give Indigenous people a voice

‘Being at uni, I have never been more proud to be Aboriginal,’ says Bronte Charles from her room on campus, and a shiver goes down my spine as I take in what she has just said. ‘I didn’t have a lot of opportunities to connect with ...

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This scholarship honestly changed my life.

My name is TJ Pham and I am a Wiradjuri man. 2021 was my first year in my Bachelor of Education (secondary) and Bachelor of Arts (French and Italian) degree at Macquarie University. With personal circumstances, a global pandemic and a new educational jour...

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The scholarship means so much to me

It’s one thing to know where you want to go in life. It’s quite another to be aware of what possibilities even exist and know others who have made the leap. For Kyh Samuelsson, who is the first in his family to go to university, the older kids...

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The financial support has had a huge impact

We all know that if your heart isn’t in something, you probably shouldn’t be doing it. But what about the reverse scenario? What if you are called to a profession – aren’t you exactly the kind of student – and ultimately empl...

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Changing the world - one student at a time

‘There just weren’t the facilities to help a student like me excel at school or apply to university,’ remembers Taylor, a law and business undergraduate from the South Coast of New South Wales. ‘Most people didn’t understand ...

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