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2 Unit Aboriginal Studies, NSW Higher School Certificate

Section 4

Comparison of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, New Zealand Maoris and the Student’s Local Indigenous Community

Question 4.1

Use the 2001 Australian Census and the New Zealand Census compete Table 1, which compares Australian and Indigenous communities. Make sure to identify your local Indigenous community.

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Question 4.2

Create a table like the one below. The first criterion listed is completed for you except for local Indigenous information. Local Indigenous information requires your individual research. Complete the table with the information you have researched.

Often the information gathered for each group is different. Try as much as possible to match the information in the different tables by using a numbering system and by underlining key words.

When asked to write an essay only choose those facts which will enhance your argument.

Table 1: Comparison of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, New Zealand Maoris and the Student's Local Indigenous Community based on 2001 Statistics

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

New Zealand Maoris

(Your local indigenous People/Peoples)

Education: 1996 census

  1. Nearly half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait slander (ATSI) people aged 15 and over had no formal education or had not reached year 10 levels.
  2. For nearly three in ten, the year ten school certificate was the highest educational attainment.
  3. The proportion who had obtained a post-school educational qualification was one in six.
  4. Higher proportions (57%) of persons with post-school qualifications were employed than persons without qualifications (33%). Earnings were also higher, with 29% earning more than $25,000 a year, compared with eight percent of those without post-school educational qualifications.
  5. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS 1994) statistics, Indigenous Australians were less likely to be attending an educational institution full-time than other Australians. In 1996, 73.7% of Indigenous 15 year olds were in full-time education compared to 91.5% of all 15 year olds.
  6. At older ages the disparity between Indigenous and others increased, so that at age 19, when tertiary education could be expected to occur, only 12% of Indigenous persons were in full time education, one third the rate for total persons.

2001 census results and 1998 figure

  1. 39% of Maori males and 35% of Maori females had no qualification (2001).
  2. Maori represented 21% of all 5-14 year old enrolments in schools (1998).
  3. 1 in 6 Maori adults had a vocational qualification (such as New Zealand Certificate of Engineering). 1 in 21 Maori adults had a degree or higher qualification as their highest post-school qualification. The most common field of study for post-school qualifications for Maori people was teaching (2001). Nearly one third (30%) of Maori youth aged 16-24 years were in some form of further education (secondary, tertiary or training) compared to nearly half (47%) of non-Maori (2001).
  4. Generally, having a tertiary qualification improves employment and income opportunities (2001).
    5.
  5. On average, Maori have lower levels of educational achievement than non-Maori (2001).
  7. While the reasons are complex, a factor may be the failure of the mainstream education system to adequately meet the educational needs and aspirations of Maori (2001).
  8. Significant proportions of Maori students were suspended from school for varying lengths of time (1998)
  9. The number of Maori graduates is growing. In 1998, nearly 7,500 Maori gained a tertiary qualification (2,825 men and 4,666 women). This was a 60% (2,800) increase on the 1994 figure (1998).
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  10. Maori graduates tended to be older than non Maori graduates

 

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