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Entrepreneurship in Indigenous Australia: the importance of Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2016

Dennis Foley
Dennis Foley*
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Brisbane, Queensland
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In the Coalition’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs 1998 election policy statement, The Honourable John Herron, Senator for Queensland and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, claimed that a second term Howard/Fischer government would continue to assist Indigenous Australia to move beyond welfare by continuing to target key areas that include education and economic development (Herron 1998:1).

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Section D: Research
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , December 1999 , pp. 47 - 54
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1999

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