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The Aboriginal group is made visible by the facilities offered.
The age of intake has a wide spread. Therefore these students
represent a group differing from the secondary school group in
that, as children and teenagers, they lived under the repressive
pre-1967 laws, and their aftermath, and would have felt in their
*
own lives the rejection documented by Aboriginal writers of their
own age, speaking to student teachers in Armidale, found in Tatz’
(1975) book The Aboriginal-Experience .
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19.62 Stone^ts Business College

Following preliminary investigation of numbers of Aboriginal
students, it had been inferred (wrongly), from the comparatively
large numbers of Aboriginal people in attendance at Stone’s
Business College, that special provisions were made for Aboriginal
people.

This was not so. In many ways the policy was similar to
that of Salisbury North High School,
t

Stone's Business College was an institution where the policy
was to treat all students alike (and sympathetically), but to
make no special provision for Aboriginal students. There was
a mixture of a brisk, business-like approach on the part of the
director, allied to a personal interest in the progress of each
student. There was a policy of helping find employment for
each student as- she attained sufficient skills, whether the student
was Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal. The high enrolments of Aboriginal
people was attributed to the fact that individuals who had completed
the course and obtained a position referred other Aboriginal

¹Excerpts from this book have been quoted extensively throughout
this work.

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