Indigenous Australians Overcoming Vulnerability to Employability by Creating a Viable Labour Market for Local Challenges
Keywords:
job vulnerability, indigenous employment, educational vocational training, unemployment
Abstract
Australian Indigenous people experience severe labour market disadvantage due to constraints embedded in technology inclination to work formal education lack of job experience as well as geographic factors Indigenous precarious employment grows in prominence when there is an absence of jobs and particularly in remote regions of Australia where intergenerational unemployment is the norm In the remote Gove Peninsula of the Northern Territory of Australia many English illiterate and innumerate people without previous employment have overcome vulnerability to employment by engaging with an educational vocational scheme in a networking arrangement with government agencies and the resident mining corporation Rio Tinto This paper voices the Indigenous work relevant accomplishments during the two and one half years after installment of the programme that is grounded in the interests and sensitivity to cultural continuities of the local Yolngu people
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2014-01-15
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