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Education for Aborigines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2016

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Over the last two years Australians have become more aware through the bitter comments of Aborigines in the media that a new government cannot overnight solve problems which have been festering for more than a century. It is still possible for the National Population Inquiry Report to note in 1975 that ‘in every conceivable comparison, the Aborigines and Islanders … stand in stark contrast to the general Australian society, and also to other “ethnic” groups, whether defined on the basis of race, nationality, birthplace, language or religion. They probably have the highest growth rate, the highest death rate, the worst health and housing, and legal status of any identifiable section of the Australian population’. They also have the least schooling.

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Schools Commission Report for the Triennium 1976 - 1978: Chapter 9
Information
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , June 1975 , pp. 42 - 54
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 1975

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References

1. Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs. Present conditions of Yirrkala People; First Report … (Canberra, AGPS, 1974).