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Relationships with the School: Listening to the Voices of a Remote Aboriginal Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Hilarry Colman-Dimon
Hilarry Colman-Dimon*
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School of Education, James Cook University, Townsville
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Whites see us as crows, sitting in the nest with mouths open, waiting for the mother and father crow to come along. Those government fellas pretend to ask, but really tell us. They've had their minds made up all the time (Yanni Lester, cited by H. Penny, 1982).

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Section C: Schools
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , December 2000 , pp. 34 - 47
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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