The name is absent

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It is likely, then, that Aboriginal people moving into this area
are oriented to a white worldɪ.

*

There were proportionately less Aboriginal students at Augusta
2

Park than at Port Augusta High and the Aboriginal enrolment was
less visible.

In one interview with the school principal, the latter noted that

this did not loom large as a continuing problem.

The Aboriginal students in the school were seen to be well
adjusted and not needing particular help. The school concern
was with facilitating the structuring and maintaining of Aboriginal
identity; social problems of Aboriginal students were not seen
as differing from those of other students.

*

The policy of the school differed in some respects from that
of Port Augusta High, in that Aborigines were seen as more integrated
into the school 'world*.

The school’s policy was to provide a stable, caring, supportive
*
environment for everyone. The staff cultivated an awareness of
the needs of Aboriginal students, but the situation of the latter
was perceived as more homogeneous than that of Port Augusta High
and not needing the same programmes to meet the needs of their
students.

Nevertheless, the fact that students were treated as part
of the total situation did not mean that their Aboriginal identity
was not recognised.

The school noted a strong movement on the part of the Aboriginal
community of Port Augusta to structure an Aboriginal identity. It

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See p. 60, above.

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