The Island is not just a success story and is not just a powerful innovation; it is a small bastion of hope for a massive cohort of Australian secondary students who have been abused, scarred and neglected by an archaic, inequitable education system that should have been dismantled long ago. (Broadribb, 2004, 64)
Research by David Zyngier Education Faculty Monash University
September 2005
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