Aborigines and hard work?
You've been reading too many jokesw min sher bad taste.

socratease

Quite a good article:
I particularly like the idea of having schools that teach both English and the local language(s), that would actually go a long way (part of the truancy problems was Aboriginal kids avoiding school due to feeling unwelcome or cultural compromises by conforming).

The concept of schools that incorporate their culture is good, although extra-hour schools to achieve this are not such a good idea-
The reason being that a LOT of indigenous children (most particularly those in remote regions) simply have trouble getting to school (which plays a large part also to partial truancy) and extended school hours would place extra pressure on them and increase missed hours.
Generally I am actually convinced this multicultural education can actually be achieved by altering lessons in the normal school hours (especially primary school, where they could simply learn about culture in the time frames normally reserved for singing humpty dumpty in a typical Australian school).

Generally these suggestions would go a fair way into fixing many of the problems, and I am quite impressed.

First of all lets not say kids have trouble getting to school, i take that you mean by distance. There's many an indig; driving 4 wd vehicles.
School means you are trying to change their coulture. That is how the elders see it.
To teach indig language in schools, i take that you mean different lingo for each tribe. OR do we select one lingo fits all.
This idea makes more problems than it will ever settle.