You can read English but it comes out like something else , odd .
" So the next generation is comfortable with education, which is a positive."
I wrote that . It concludes on a positive note .
You asked where did the digging in gardens come from , then say it came from yourself. Weird.

Nick,

"So the next generation is comfortable with education, which is a positive. That may be as good as it gets."

No, Nick, it's going to get a whole lot better, I fervently hope. What are the trends ? Indigenous people are rapidly moving (or at least their population is rising rapidly) to the cities and away from remote and rural centres. Indigenous commencement numbers at universities have doubled in nine or ten years. Annual graduate numbers have doubled. Total graduate numbers have risen from barely nineteen thousand in 2015 to fifty four or more thousand now. And that rate of growth may not decline over the next generation. One hundred thousand graduates, one in four adults, is likely by 2030, barely 13 years away. One hundred thousand Charley Perkins.

Meanwhile, out in remote and rural (and outer suburban) settlements, the rent-seeking ideology is becoming more and more entrenched - in a way, the choice to try to go to university is a clear rejection of that BUT that appears to be happening far more in urban centres. So the choice of ideology is becoming more stark - ideology based on EITHER welfare and rent-seeking, OR education and work. And the elites, the 'leaders', suck up to the rent-seekers.

Which will prevail eventually ? I don't know.

Joe

In English , the present tense is now . Future tense is in the future . We know the present amount of uni grads but not the future until it becomes now.
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Nick,

And it's the future that I'm focussing on. It gets brighter and brighter each year.

Indigenous Year 12 completions are now many times higher than in the year 2000. Those students tend to flow on to university education. Half of all undergraduates tend to go on to post-graduate study within five years.

As for your snide remark about Aerospace Engineering, I wouldn't be surprised if there are Indigenous students in those fields: in 2016, there were at least 428 Indigenous students enrolled in Engineering in all its forms around the country. 968 were enrolled in Natural and Physical Sciences. 17,728 were enrolled in award-level courses. Enrolment numbers are increasing consistently by 7-8 % per year. Do you want to sneer at that too ?

Any other backhanders ?

Joe

Full Time Education in Wanaaring .
This describes education that is full time . At Wanaaring . University. In English , this means the town of Wanaaring . Its educational services . At Wanaaring . The town:" a considerable collection of dwellings" . Ox English Dict for English . Language.

Nick,

Yes. Wanaaring, NSW, out from Bourke, towards Tibooburra ( I know an Aboriginal graduate from there) and Thargomindah (my grand-dad's birth-place, so he said; no, Queanbeyan, bloody old liar).

One can enrol at a university and do field work at such places.

What's . your . point ?

Or do you find it amazing that any Aboriginal people could be at university at all ? There's a word for that, Nick. Come on, put your foot in it. :)