SPQR,

Opportunity ? On current figures, about 35 % of every young Indigenous age-group will go to university from now on: in 2010, about four thousand Indigenous people started an award-level university course. The median age-group, 24-26 year-olds, numbers about eight thousand.

20 % of those four thousand commencers are enrolling in post-graduate study. A handful would be starting their second degree. Another handful would be transferring from one course to another.

So about three thousand out of eight thousand would be commencing award-level university study for the first time (not to mention another thousand non-award students in Bridging Courses). Most of them will graduate, in three or four years' time.

Back in 1972, there were barely a couple of hundred tertiary-educated Indigenous graduates, one in every thousand adults. By the end of this year, there could be close to thirty thousand Indigenous university graduates, one in every eight or nine adults. By 2020, fifty thousand - one in every six adults - could be graduates.

It's called 'opportunity', thinker2. Some seize it, some don't. It needs hard work, though. 'Opportunity' is often like that.

Cheers,

Joe

People might mistake you for an ignorant man.
Lexi,
only the ignorant ones do that, the ones in the know agree.

Thinker 2,
please change your OLO name to something more appropriate. You have no idea.

Until we celebrate Australia Day on its true legal and historical date - January 1st - we are going to suffer problems year after year, as far as the eye can see.

In 1788, there was no such thing as Australia. The British claimed the eastern half of the continent of New Holland. In 1788 the British were establishing a penal colony ** not a nation **.

The nation of Australia was actually born on January 1st, 1901. This inauguration date was legally and constitutionally proclaimed by Queen Victoria on 17 September, 1900. This is our true birthday as a nation.

December 31st should also be made a public hioliday as it was on December 31st, 1900.

[Alfred Deakin, Morning Post (London)]
“Never was a moonlit midnight in Sydney marked by a wilder, more prolonged, or generally discordant welcome than was December 31, 1900 . . .
whistles, bells, gongs, accordions, rattles, and clanging culinary utensils yielded unearthly sounds . . . Immense crowds on land and water vied with each other in mocking and echoing the noises about them . . .

some common sense [for once]..to quote..""The nation of Australia was actually born on January 1st,..1901.""

wether it was vandiemens land...new holland...
or simply the great south land's..australia didnt egsist..till it was created..[or granted to egsist]

there is no flag
described..in its constitution

as we still have an armed occupation force
CONTROLED..by a representative of the queen
who serve to protect the queen and her heirs
we teqniclly cant even claim..a flag..

cause we arnt even a self aware declared independant nation
maybe at best a colony...[lets face it the australia ACT...had to be ratiefied..by british govt

look at who gives orsder..to the armed forces
a queens govener[general]...lol

if anything the flag stands for ignorance

we are a funny convoliution of states gov generals
and a federal gov general..who has final yeah or nay
indeed teqniclly cant sign any law...by by the queens mark
[thus cant even..join the united nations..unless ratified..by hrh]

sao that hasnt happend
but other things have...[funny how lies only grow bigger]

""This inauguration..date
was legally and constitutionally proclaimed by Queen Victoria on 17 September, 1900...This is our true birthday as a nation.""

lol if nation we be
or colony..or collective of colonies

""December 31st..should also be made a public holiday
as it was on December 31st,..1900.""

till we direct...the gg to leave
we are a colony..under occupation

that deserves more thinking
than blustering..[spin]..by an anti monarcist pm

I just heard Christine Milne on TV saying Abbott should focus more on advancing indigenous rights instead of pursuing the Labor staffer re incitement to riot.
Firstly, nothing more can be done to advance indigenous rights without their own input, the ball is in their court.
Secondly, incitement to riot is extremely serious & has to be investigated. Ms Milne is not in tune with normal life at all, perhaps she should work where she can't do any harm. She's definitely unsuitable for politics.