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Methodology

VAEAI continually seeks consultative processes that provide opportunities for partnerships that are responsive to and reflect the aims of the organisation.

The resources, information, materials and facts available at the time of writing of this report, strongly encouraged VAEAI to seek effective working relationships with Government Departments/Agencies and other organisations outside the Koorie Community networks and key providers to VAEAI.

The primary sources of data collected were reports prepared by various Government Departments, educational organisations and the Victorian Koorie Community Survey conducted by VAEAI in November 1997.

The data was separated into different elements, the first being data collected from the VAEAI Community Survey, November 1997, with a view to comparing and correlating linkages between data collected from the various Commonwealth and State Government agencies.

It should be noted, in examining this report, that data collected from governments and other large institutions may not portray a completely accurate picture of Koorie participation due to the sometimes inappropriate and insensitive methods and terminology used to obtain information from the Koorie community.

Further, there remains a reluctance on the part of the Koorie community to disclose personal information to government departments due to the various past policies and practices which were not responsive to Koorie community protocols.

However, at this stage the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Census of Population and Housing is the most comprehensive and current source of information on the Koorie population collected at regular intervals. VAEAI is of the opinion that the ABS Census' information on the Koorie population is still underestimated.

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