Items Tagged With "Indigenous"
Building skilled Australians in remote Indigenous communities (News)
The Australian Government is investing $172.4 million over three years to help build the skills of Indigenous Australians through a range of training, mentoring and community development projects across 500 remote Indigenous communities.
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The Australian Government is investing $172.4 million over three years to help build the skills of Indigenous Australians through a range of training, mentoring and community development projects across 500 remote Indigenous communities.
This initiative builds on major reforms to the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) program and the Indigenous employment services introduced in July 2009.
Employment contributes strongly to personal, social and economic development.
National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (News)
The Centre provides world-class facilities in sport, education and the arts for up to 5,000 young Indigenous people from around Australia each year and symbolises a new era in Indigenous education & engagement.
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*Release with Jenny Macklin, Warren Snowden & Tanya Plibersek
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today officially opened the $50 million National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE) in Redfern, Sydney.
Created with the support of the Indigenous Land Corporation, the facility will provide world-class facilities in sport, education and the arts for up to 5,000 young Indigenous people from around Australia each year.
Boost for Indigenous business and jobs (News)
Government projects worth more than $5 million in regions with significant Indigenous populations must now include plans for employing and training local Indigenous people, and using Indigenous suppliers.
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* Release with Mark Arbib
The Australian Government is working to create increased Indigenous employment, training and supplier opportunities through Government procurement policies.
Minister for Employment Participation Mark Arbib has announced greater opportunities for Indigenous communities to engage in the Government projects delivered in their area following the Business Leaders Forum in Canberra yesterday.
$4 million to help Kimberley families (News)
People living in Western Australia’s Kimberley region will be given help to balance their family budgets and to learn more about how the banking and finance systems operate as part of a $4 million Rudd Government program.
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People living in Western Australia’s Kimberley region will be given help to balance their family budgets and to learn more about how the banking and finance systems operate as part of a $4 million Rudd Government program.
Among those who will benefit are families identified under the child protection income management measure. This measure gives WA Department of Child Protection the power to recommend to Centrelink that income support and family payments are quarantined to ensure welfare is spent in the interests of children.
Business ideas on Indigenous jobs (News)
The Indigenous Employment Forum will see business leaders come together to network, share ideas and show their commitment to increasing employment opportunities for Indigenous Australians.
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Minister for Employment Participation, Mark Arbib, will tomorrow host an Indigenous Employment Forum, with some of Australia’s biggest corporations at Parliament House, Canberra.
The Indigenous Employment: Everyone’s Business forum will support Australian businesses in their efforts to close the gap on Indigenous employment outcomes.
It will focus on the key areas of school to work transitions, recruitment and retention strategies, training, mentoring, and building Indigenous enterprise.
Housing construction in NT town camps (News)
The start of the first three bedroom house has given twelve local Aboriginal men jobs as trade assistants after completing training in general construction, work safety and carpentry.
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*Release with Warren Snowdon
Construction is underway on the first of 85 houses to be built in the Alice Springs town camps under the Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program.
The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, the Northern Territory Minister for Central Australia, Karl Hampton, and the Minister for Indigenous Health and the Member for Lingiari, Warren Snowdon, today welcomed the start of work on the first new house at Larapinta Valley.
Infrastructure in remote communities (News)
A commonsense, practical guide will be distributed in remote Indigenous communities to help manage essential infrastructure services such as energy, waste, water, storm water, telecommunications and transport.
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Indigenous Outreach Workers (News)
Efforts to close the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians have been boosted with the announcement of 83 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Outreach Worker placements.
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National efforts to close the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation received a boost today with the announcement of 83 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Outreach Worker placements across Australia.
Minister for Indigenous Health, Warren Snowdon, said funding had been approved for 83 positions, more than half of the 160 positions that are being funded under a $42 million commitment to build the capacity of the Indigenous health workforce over four years. [See attached table for placement details].
Visitor accommodation park for Alice Springs (News)
Aboriginal visitors to Alice Springs will have a safe place to stay following the establishment of a new, secure accommodation facility as part of the $150 million Alice Springs Transformation Plan.
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Aboriginal visitors to Alice Springs will have a safe place to stay following the establishment of a new, secure accommodation facility as part of the $150 million Alice Springs Transformation Plan.
Passing of Ruby Hunter (News)
The passing of Ruby Hunter, a talented and inspirational Aboriginal singer and songwriter, is a sad loss to all Australians as well as the music industry.
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*Release with Peter Garrett & Tanya Plibersek
Today we mourn the passing of Ruby Hunter, a talented and inspirational Aboriginal singer and songwriter.
Her death overnight at her home at Killarney in south west Victoria, is a sad loss to all Australians as well as the music industry.
As a member of the Stolen Generations, Ruby was taken from her family at the age of eight and moved between a number of foster homes and institutions.
