Apart from legal issues this is the way in which history has been taught. One of the non-Aboriginal assumptions about education is that schooling and education are synonomous. However much leaming is done outside of school and perhaps at times not much learning is done inside school. Hence when people talk of 'finishing school' they often think they are completing their leaming as well. A further assumption about education is that it is considered 'child business'.
Adults work, drink and play football but children go to school to learn.
It is not surprising that for many Aboriginal people school, and hence education, is seen as 'white-fella' business. As a system aimed at giving people knowledge, and hence the ability to have choices and power over their lives, education has failed the Aboriginal people of this State. Something which was denied the people for years later became an imposed obligation. Significantly, Aboriginal people were then blamed for not participating in a system which was foreign to them, which threatened to assimilate them, over which they had no control nor which was seriously prepared to adapt according to their needs. However it is equally clear that some Aboriginal people do have very specific ideas and proposals about how things can be improved.