For anyone interested - Australia's universities are
highly regarded around the world and have built their
reputation for academic excellence and research
ingenuity over decades.

Australia attracts the 3rd highest number of international
students after the United States and the UK who are drawn
here by the record of achievement of our universities built
up over a considerable amount of time.

Anyone interested in learning more about Australian
universities can visit:

http://www.universitiesaustralia.edu.au

As for our Indigenous people? I shall leave that to
Joe (Loudmouth) to reply.

I wrote that " .... there is a way of attacking something or someone WITHOUT mentioning them, or without straight-out dog-whistling - for example, indirectly having a go at, say, Indigenous participation at universities, NOT by sinking the boot in directly, but by criticising some side-issue or peripheral aspect of, say, higher education generally, e.g. its quality and pointlessness."

Thanks, Ttbn, Individual and Alt Rave - you amply demonstrate what I was trying to get across, your gutless way of attacking people for making an effort, without having the courage to say so directly. In your worlds, Blackfellas are supposed to stay down and never lift their heads and, preferably, to stay out in the sticks. No, many are doing what they damn-well like, and many of them are progressing through higher education - and using it to their best advantage. No, very few will be silly enough to go out to welfare-oriented 'communities' in order to get slagged and destroyed by the pissy, petty local power structures of the Industry - like other graduates, they will stay in urban areas where they are from and where the jobs are better rewarded. Suck it up.

Joe

while the subject of successful aboriginals has come up I think Warren Mundine is one outstanding success. Whoever had input into him did an outstanding job.

Joe

Still at it! What is it that you think I should say "outright"? What am I supposed to be hiding? What am I too "gutless" to say? Spell it out man!

Yes Joe, please clarify your un-intelligible rant.
I KNOW I don't beat around the bush, and you do too, because I hate and detest PC, so if I've got something to say, I don't sugar coat it, you'll get both barrels.
So I'm sorry if I wasn't insulting enough for you because it takes a very high level of insults to get through to some of you with your twisted and distorted views or beliefs.
Now which part did I not put across strongly enough?
Was it the part where I make the statement that there are no abo's in uni today, or is it that because those of us born in Australia are indigenous, that means everyone, not just someone who wants us to call him an abo.
Look up the meaning of the word abo, and you'll see that ALL Aussies born here, are abo's, got it now?
Foxy, again with the glass half full.
Take off the rose coloured glasses, it's not working.
The list of abo 'achievers' you so proudly offer; can you highlight which of them are NOT of mixed blood and therefore abo's?
Or conversely, which ones are of mixed blood and therefore NOT abo's?
This should not be a problem for someone as well researched as yourself, as it will go a long way to clarifying the question about abo's in uni.
It will also show that in most cases the intellectual capacity of these 'mixed bloods', is directly correlated to the incursion of the European factor and not as is attempted to convey, the natural ability of the pure blood abo.
The main reason you are wrong is, as has been pointed out, that the funding has been slowly depleted and therefore Aussie uni's have engaged in more mickey mouse courses like ;arts' degrees and less 'real' courses.
Not to mention the funding cuts to research, the worst ever.
Consequently our uni's have dropped severely in world rankings to what is better described as critical.
So stop sugar coating things in a frivolous attempt at trying to keep a sinking argument afloat.

Blackfellas are supposed to stay down and never lift their heads and, preferably, to stay out in the sticks.
Loudmouth,
Where did anyone say that ? Is asking people to pull their weight too much to ask ?