The last Reconciliation Barometer found widespread understanding of the levels of disadvantage experienced by Aboriginal people.
The ethnic mix has been virtually static for 16 years, as have levels of disadvantage.
The commission used the national pupil database to compare schools with similar levels of disadvantage.
I have confidence that schools can make a reality of the pupil premium, particularly schools with high levels of disadvantage.
Secondary schools in the north receive on average £1,300 less per pupil than schools in London despite high levels of disadvantage, according to a new study.
For all the talk of reform in the education system, it may be that existing levels of disadvantage mean that there are limits to what schools alone can achieve in improving reading, writing and counting.
"There is a danger that some of policies currently being pursued, like welfare reform and taxation policies, are furthering that inequality and that areas with higher levels of disadvantage and poverty will do worse again".
On a the sliding scale based on high levels of disadvantage and poverty in Kalgoorlie's Indigenous community, a legal source told the Guardian, he was at the lower end.
Using a generic "cameo" school of 700 students with the same levels of disadvantage, the minister argued the current formula was a corruption of the Gonski recommendation because a single student attracted different rates of funding depending on the state or territory.
Mr Woodhead's most recent report concluded:In a set of schools with similarly high levels of disadvantage across a range of indicators, the proportion of pupils achieving level 4 or above (in standardised national literacy tests) ranged from about 65% to 15%.
At the dawn of the affirmative action era, it was easy to see the chief racial divide as between whites and blacks, but the ethnic mosaic is much more complicated now, with an explosion of different groups from all over the world, at various levels of disadvantage.
