Findings – A lack of cultural understanding on the part of government agencies contributes to a
migrant community’s socio-economic disadvantage, e.g. high unemployment and crime rates,
underachievement in education, exclusion from higher education. The Samoan community is a
disadvantaged migrant group in Australia who were helped to help themselves to achieve positive
change and quality learning in partnership with university researchers. The use of an enabling
framework designed by GULL, mainly for developing countries, also proved to be an effective system
for achieving personal and organizational learning in a disadvantaged community in Australia.