... Australia, with only a handful inland, but as the Non Indigenous population increased, the Indigenous Australians were pushed into the harsh arid interior of this great land they thought was theirs. Education was a huge problem for Indigenous Australians. When children were taken from their parents and placed into state care they were sent to missions run by Brothers and Nuns of the church. The reason for taking the children was in the name of "education" (Aborigines Department, Annual Report 1899:5). There were placed into a system run by Non Indigenous people who did not think that Indigenous Australians were capable of being educated beyond elementary levels. Keith Truscott and Dr Peter Milnes in a discussion paper of conditions, processes and outcomes for providers of business education to Indigenous people in Western Australia delivered at ASAWA conference quoted "In these segregated schools about half the day was spent in teaching practical ...

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