Foxy,
Only some Journo's sucking up to the Gravy train.

Dear Foxy,

I live in hope :) Currently, Indigenous university graduate numbers (i.e. at the end of last year) are somewhere between 48,000 (federal Ed. Dept) and 62,000 (ABS Census extrapolation), with another 3-4,000 each year, increasing at about 8 % p.a., or doubling in nine years. Around 35 % of under-grads go onto post-graduate study. I keep thinking that surely those rates of increase have to slow down, but they don't.

So there could be between 70,000 (Ed. Dept) and 100,000 (ABS) Indigenous university graduates by 2026; and between 95,000 and 130,000 by the early 2030s. By then, as in the rest of Australian society, around half of all urban Indigenous women will be university graduates.

Regards,

Joe

Individual,

No. Stan Grant is Indigenous Affair editor. and Chair
of Indigenous Affairs. He's more than just "some
journo."He also happens to be indigenous.
And you were the one asking for an Indigenous point
of view. But of course I should have known better.
all you're interested in is slagging - not answers.
Good luck with that. And speaking of a "gravy train"
which one were/are you on?

which one were/are you on?
Foxy,
The one with the clear windows, not the rose-tinted ones !

surely those rates of increase have to slow down, but they don't.
Loudmouth,
Use the same funding modes as for non-indigenous & the numbers will drop dramatically !

ttbn, I have to take you to task and defend Cookie Boy; "What most people probably don't realise is - he stuffed it (observation of the transit of Venus) up; got wrong."

Firstly, James Cook was not in charge of the observation, nothing I have read said he took any part it was a matter for the 'Scientific Gentlemen', Charles Green was the astronomer, Cook may have had a casual interest and a bit of a look, I don't know. Secondly the only problem they, the Scientific Gentlemen (as Cook refereed to them) encountered with the observation, although it was a clear sunny day, tropic haze prevented a super accurate timing of the transit to be obtained. Green died of dysentery on the voyage home. The Tahitian observations when published by the Royal Society the credit was GREEN C and Cook J. Green was to be paid the huge sum of 200 guineas for his work. The first part of Cook's orders was to convey the Scientific Gentlemen safely and expeditiously to Tahiti for the transit event.

Cook's first voyage was a semi private venture. The total cost of purchasing the Whitby Cat, a coastal coal ship, 'The Earl of Penbroke' (renamed 'Endeavour) its re-rigging and fit out was paid for by The Admiralty, about 8,000 pounds in total. Then Joseph Banks on behalf of the Royal Society paid 10,000 pounds for the venture.

BTW, at the same time as the Tahiti observation was taking place the Royal Society had four or five other transit observations been performed in other parts of the world. The whole exercise was to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun, for that end it was very successful.

BBTW, The Royal Society wanted Alexander Dalrymple to lead the expedition, The Admiralty wanted a navy man, and insisted on James Cook.