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Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Children: A vision of survival, a dream with a future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Lisa Bellear
Lisa Bellear*
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne, Swanston Street, Parkville 3052
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Abstract

“I mean we're sitting back waiting for our younger people to take over. When I'm talking about younger people I'm talking about teenagers and ah our people in their early twenties. They are the ones that have the new ideas, some of us now I think our ideas are a bit stale, a bit old, we try and keep abreast of what's happening with issues that are affecting people but ah, the same way as we can't, ah don't want white people telling Aboriginal people what should happen, you can't have older people telling younger people what should happen either. But I think we should work together and map out a future and the younger people should come in and take it…seize the time”.

Type
Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 18 , Special Issue 1 , 1993 , pp. 29 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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Notes

1. Sol Bellear, Deputy Chairperson Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Commission, interviewed by Lisa Bellear, December 1992, broadcasted on 3CR “Not Another Koori Show”