Equity issues: Every university's concern, whose business?: An exploration of universities' inclusion of indigenous peoples' rights and interests

"Australian universities today serve a far more diverse clientele than they have ever done at any time in this nation's educational history. This diversity is in part due to Commonwealth funding policies for universities which emanate from documents such as 'A Fair Chance for All' (Department of Employment, Education and Training 1990) and the 'National Review of Education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' (Department of Employment, Education and Training 1995), which have incresed the participation of groups such as Australia's Indigenous peoples in universities. The 'opening of the doors' to universities has been a matter of political commitment to democratically inspired notions of access and equity"--Preface.