Indigenous academic Marcia Langton has called on Australian governments to learn from Western Australian mining companies in implementing Indigenous procurement policies.

The largest cohort of Indigenous students to date has graduated from The University of Western Australia's School of Indigenous Studies.

For the third consecutive year more rural medical graduates than ever before took their professional oath at The University of Western Australia at the weekend as numbers continue to rise under UWA's successful Rural Student Recruitment Program.

The first three students to complete the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree through The University of Western Australia's Broadway access program committed to the Hippocratic Oath at the weekend (Saturday 22 November).