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International Studies in Educational Inequality, Theory and Policy pp 257–277Cite as

Education Inequality and Indigenous Australians

Perspectives and Possibilities

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There are around 410,000 Indigenous people in Australia, comprising about 2.1 percent of the total population of 20 million. As the most disadvantaged minority group in the country they encounter, on a daily basis, the historical legacy of a society built on invasion, dispossession, colonisation and racism.

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    Sue Helme (Research Fellow)

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    Richard Teese (Professor and Director) & Sue Helme (Research Fellow) (Professor and Director) &  (Research Fellow)

  2. University of Burgundy, Burgundy, France

    Marie Duru-Bellat (Professor) (Professor)

  3. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, USA

    Stephen Lamb (Principal Research Fellow) (Principal Research Fellow)

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Helme, S. (2007). Education Inequality and Indigenous Australians. In: Teese, R., Lamb, S., Duru-Bellat, M., Helme, S. (eds) International Studies in Educational Inequality, Theory and Policy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5916-2_11

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