ABSTRACT
This has been a challenging question for governments since the invasion of Australia. Although at first there were no policies to educate members of Australia’s Indigenous communities by the colonizing authorities, successive governments (both Federal and State) since the mid-nineteenth century have attempted various interventionist solutions to the ‘problem’ of Aboriginal education. This chapter will explore how a group of thirty-six teachers and student teachers working in Australia in 1996, and who provided the initial inspiration for this chapter, rose to the challenges posed by the question.
