The name is absent

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The conclusion then reached is that, if Aboriginal people
are denied identity as Aboriginal Australians, they must turn
their exclusion from mainstream society to advantage by actively
implementing their theorizing about 'forming groups to get somewhere’.
The formation of such groups will provide a locus for the
construction of an Aboriginal identity.

The following parameters constraining the construction of
positive identity for Aboriginal people may be isolated:

, Nihilation of universe _______

Pre-1967 of meaning at the macro-
cosmic level

A history of nihilation by
the host society

Exclusion of Aboriginal
Post-1967 people from mainstream
society by policy-makers

---------Negative typification by
host society, but some
support for Aborigines to
-------7 form groups 'to get somewhere*

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Positive recognition of
Aboriginal universe at the
macro-cosmic level; policies
of self-determination, self-

management; jobs
government agenc

provided in
ies

Acceptance in the micro-cosmic
world of education of

Aboriginal
meaning

universes of

----AcceptanceofAboriginal ’worlds’:

* in Schools Commission policy

* in State Education policy