ALTRAV,

Self praise is no recommendation.

It may give you warm and fuzzy feelings but to most
people kisses on the mirror are signs of insecurity.

Some things sound better if they don't come from you.

It would appear that you've got the Trumpism virus.
No vaccine available. Please keep yourself in
isolation. We don't want it to spread. It needs to
be contained.

Dear Joe,

Thank You for the link.

I did read it.

Very, very, sad.

Foxy, again you fail to make a case or score any points.
If you have to quote cliche's instead of responding to the comments, I think it shows you have finally met your match and reached your limit of reasoning and ability to respond in a measured and mature manner.
I suggest you have a rest for a while as you too, like Paul, sound a little stressed and losing your train of thought.

quote cliche's instead of responding to the comments,
ALTRAV,
You've hit the nail on the head with cliché, it's the most apt term to describe most of the Leftist do-gooder rose-coloured posts with which our personal experiences are constantly disputed !

ALTRAV,

You insecurities are loud and comments
are irrelevant.

Individual,

Try again.

Try again.
Foxy,
You mean till eventually you get it ? I don't think patience is designed to last that long !

Sorry kids, BTT:

The Closing the Gap targets are being revised - those relating to education are being revised upwards (Australian, pp. 1 & 7). The government wants to set a target of 70 % of ATSI youth having tertiary qualifications (i.e. Certificate III and higher) by 2028.

At the last Census, there were just under a quarter of a million ATSI people in Australia between 15 and 39. If we fiddle with the figures a bit, cutting out all those under 20, and over 40, and use the residual figure as a surrogate, this means about 181,714 people.

In the last Census, 48,704 ATSI held university-level qualifications; 70,939 had completed Certificate III and IVs, making a total of 119,643 out of a rough population of 181,714, or 65.8 %.

The proportion of that population with university qualifications was around 26.8 %.

From the last Census to this next one, next year, ATSI university graduate numbers will rise by about 40 %, to about 68-70,000. By the 2021 Census, the relevant Total ATSI population (20-39 years) will have risen to about 212,600. So about 32 % of ATSI aged 20-39 will be university graduates by the next Census - i.e. effectively by the end of this year. Perhaps as many as 90,000 will have completed Certificates III and IV.

So close to 160,000 ATSI will have 'tertiary qualifications' out of a population of 212,600 young ATSI adults, or 75 % (and close to a third of that population with outright university qualifications).

My dear late wife wrote about 'Two Indigenous Populations' back in 2006 or 2007, and with the equivalent of three-quarters of the young adult population having tertiary qualifications (she would be over the moon !), I would respectfully suggest that the other quarter have plenty of role-models to emulate, if they can put the effort in and make the leap across that growing Gap.

Joe