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22.33 Aborigines in a multi-cultural Australia

TABLE 29

Schedule II statements referring to the location of Aborigines
in the Australian 'world' - a comparison of Aboriginal and
Bon-Aboriginal response

a      *    * V            *             *          ***t»**                            « ∙ *      t «    I    »        *

Statement


Agree         Not           Disagree Majority

strongly Agree sure Disagree strongly response
ft,                     o,            o,                  ft,                        β,                        л,

*⅛                         -ft∙             -ft   ∙                -ft                            -ft                            -ft

51. I think Aborigines should
try to be white


Aboriginal response (N=93)        3.4

Non-Aboriginal response (N=289)   5.4


(disagree)

9.0   6.7   22.5     58.4     80.9

6.1 16.8   30.0     41.8     71.8


19. Aborigines should merge into
the general population


Aboriginal response (N=93)       12.4

Non-Aboriginal response (N=289) 16.0


39.3 27.0   12.4

31.0 32.3   11.6


(agree)

9.0     51.7

9.2     47.0


31. Aborigines should form groups
so that they will get somewhere


Aboriginal response (N=93)       34.8    34.8 12.4    7.9

Non-Aboriginal response (N=289) 13.0    28.8 32.5   13.0


(agree)

10.1     69.6

12.7     41.8


59. I think Australian people
show discrimination when they
employ people


Aboriginal response (N=93)       28.4

Non-Aboriginal response (N=289) 22.5


31.8 19.3   12.5

37.7 22.5   11.4


(agree)

8.0     60.2

5.9     60.2




44. Seeing Aborigines were here
long before migrants, they
ought to get jobs before
migrants


Aboriginal response (N=93)       35.6

Non-Aboriginal response (N=289)  13.8


25.6 23.3   11.1

20.3 30.7   24.1


(agree)

4.4   ’ 61.2

11.0     35.1


35.1

The one issue on which there was complete agreement between
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal respondents was about discrimination. Sixty point
two per cent of both groups believed that Australian people showed



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