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I wrote "For some groups, access to opportunity can be almost impossible, generation after generation (I'm thinking of some of the descendants of convicts 150-200 years ago), without some sort of inspiring teacher, or other form of leg-up ...."
I wasn't aware that many of those ancestors were Chinese. Live and learn :)
And I did add: " .... Imposing barriers, such as the imposition of fees, is a huge barrier to such groups."
Strange, I wasn't thinking about Chinese when I typed that, but about:
* working-class people here, the descendants of convicts who have never gained any understanding of the value and role of education - TAFE (in your case) and university, higher skills of any sort actually - and
* Indigenous people, who have actually grasped higher education (sorry, not TAFE, so you probably don't know any) enthusiastically over the past generation: with around 12-14,000 people in an age-group, some 6-7,000 commence university study each year, and close to six thousand graduates now (around 10 % of the entire Indigenous population) - overwhelmingly urban of course (since that's where the universities are) and female.
It may dismay many on the Left (given their extreme hand-wringing pity for the unchangeable position of Indigenous people) but around 150,000 Indigenous people have, at some time, enrolled in university study, overwhelmingly in standard degree-level and PG awards, since 1980.
Actually, with your obsessive disdain for Chinese, I suspect that you may be Chinese, disillusioned in some way, perhaps knocked back from the distant promise of some CCP position once you finish your woodwork course at TAFE. Life can be cruel :(
Joe