And this is why you've got people like Noel Pearson saying that
Aboriginal people, Aboriginal kids, need the very best general
Australian academic education, but they also need a decent education in
their own high culture. Now, I think this is a very lofty goal that Noel
has put forward, but if you look at people like Alison Anderson and
Bess Price, they are fluent in many Aboriginal languages. They are
people of law and culture and language, but they are also extremely
capable of operating at the very top of the general Australian
community. Now, that's got to be the aspiration that we have for
Aboriginal people. - Tony Abbott to Chris Uhlmann, ABC1's 7.30, April 28 Read...