The net primary school attendance rates were below 50 per cent in some remote rural areas during the same period.

UNESCO: Room to Read: Local Language Publishing Programme

She has watched as Hermannsburg's primary-school attendance rate almost doubled, to 80%, since it started.

ECONOMIST: Australia's aborigines

Attendance in primary and secondary school is high, due in part, to the fact that schooling is paid for by the government and is compulsory for all children under 15.

UNESCO: The Mother-Child Home Education Programme (MOCEP)