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Terry Mason, chairman of the National Tertiary Education Union's indigenous tertiary education policy committee, said courses that covered areas of need in Aboriginal communities were popular with indigenous students.

"Education, health and welfare are key areas," Mr Mason said. "People are looking at being proactive in those areas and traditionally they have a higher number of women employed in them."

The proportion of Aboriginal men in education courses was beginning to increase, he said, but the indigenous student body was shrinking overall.

Mr Mason, a senior lecturer in education and co-ordinator of the Aboriginal rural education program at the University of Western Sydney, said indigenous enrolments had been falling since means tests for Abstudy were introduced between 2000 and 2003.

"Men Are Mars, Women Are Venus"

by Harvey Rachlin

Wall Street Journal

June 16, 2007

The 15th-century Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli may be best known for his "Birth of Venus," but it is his "Venus and Mars" that really speaks to us today, brilliant not only in its artistic virtuosity and beauty but in the way it ingeniously renders in a single frame a vital message. Using mythological figures, Botticelli's painting is a parable of the balance of power between the sexes.