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Indigenous businesses: Open for Business

In the foyer of the Hilton Hotel, in the bustling centre of Sydney, a group of people gathered from all over Australia, ready to build relationships, network, and ultimately, do business.  ‘Open for business’ was the theme of the Connect 2012 Australian Indigenous Minority Supplier Council (AIMSC) annual tradeshow and conference.  Connect 2012, brings the rapidly growing group of AIMSC Members and Certified Suppliers together.   Since AIMSC started in 2010 the council has grown to 142 corporate and government members and 128 certified suppliers.  The total business activity has equated to over $44,000 million.    ... More...

05 April @ 02:40Add your comment

Call for Indigenous jobs plan in budget

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PATRICIA KARVELAS The Australian March 24, 2012 12:00AM JULIA Gillard must overhaul her indigenous jobs strategy in the May budget or risk failing to reach her Closing The Gap targets, former young Australian of the Year and GenerationOne spokesperson Tania Major said yesterday. Ms Major said indigenous people needed to be found a job first, and training should be provided afterwards or they would languish on welfare because of a broken system.  ... More...

29 March @ 03:07Add your comment

GenerationOne Celebrates 2nd Birthday

Two Years on with GenerationOne GenerationOne celebrates 2nd Birthday In March 2010, GenerationOne launched into a national campaign to end the disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians through employment in one generation.  Through consultation, research and policy GenerationOne has been able to contribute to the national conversation on Indigenous employment.   ... More...

19 March @ 02:06Add your comment

Building Resilient Communities - Jeremy Donovan

On Wednesday 7th March 2012, I was invited to be the Keynote Speaker at a conference for Queensland Youth Industry Links (QYIL). The conference took place at the Sunshine Coast University’s state of the art 'Innovation Centre'.  The conference was focused on bringing people together from across the fields of youth engagement, education and employment.   ... More...

19 March @ 09:36Add your comment

Tania Major - Connecting girls inspiring futures

Tania Major, GenerationOne spokesperson and proud Kokoberra woman from the remote community of Kowanyama in Cape York Queensland, was invited to attend the Coffs Harbour City Council celebrations for International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day is observed by thousands of people all over the world and on March 8 Tania was part of the culturally diverse celebrations. The 2012 them was “Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures”.  Tania was a keynote speaker at the event and shared her personal experiences from life, GenerationOne, and her Cape York Super Sisters Project with the attendees. She has reflected on the experience;      ... More...

14 March @ 03:32Add your comment

Career Ready - Vocational Training and Employment Centres

January 23 at Yaama Dhiyaan in Sydney’s inner west, stakeholders including Hon. Julie Collins, Federal Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development, joined with Deb Nelson, Managing Director of Yarn’n Aboriginal Employment Services; Rhonda Parker, CEO Australian Employment Covenant; Tim Gartrell, CEO GenerationOne and other stakeholders to officially launch the Career Ready – Vocational Training and Employment Centres Policy. The policy is calling for two main things - an employer-driven training process that will eliminate training for training’s sake, replacing it with training for a guaranteed job and four VTEC training sites around Australia.  The policy was developed after a year’s worth of community consultation and research. &... More...

23 January @ 03:01Add your comment

Over 61,000 jobs for new Minister to help fill - Media Release

12 December 2011   The Australian Employment Covenant and GenerationOne welcome the appointment of the Hon Julie Collins MP as the new Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development.  ... More...

13 December @ 03:27Add your comment


Balancing Culture and Career – the story of a future Mayor of his community

When Bernard Charlie gets home from his month long stints on the Port Hedland railway line in Western Australia, it doesn’t take him long to settle back into his community.  “You know you can be months and months away, and it takes five minutes and you’re home,” the 36 year-old said.  The small Aboriginal community, Umagico, located on the Northern Peninsula of Queensland, is home to about  270 people.   When Bernard was growing up, high unemployment rates, alcohol and smoking plagued his community.  He witnessed welfare dependency, and is determined to make a change for himself and set and example to his neighbours and friends.    ... More...

12 December @ 04:00Add your comment


And the winners are...

Yirara and Living Waters Colleges in Alice Springs  and Collarenenbri Central School were today announced as the winners of GenerationOne’s groundbreaking Hands Across Australia School Competition for 2011, a unique national competition giving schools the opportunity to showcase their performing arts skills. Partnering with the Australian School of Performing Arts, the competition encourages teachers and students to actively engage with the issues of Indigenous education, employment and training and ending the disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in one generation – this generation. Both entries into the competition have been awarded a GenerationOne – Hands Across Australia Education Award valued at $15,000. ... More...

21 October @ 09:22Add your comment

And the winner is...

The winners of the 2011 Hands Across Australia School Song Competition will be announced at 1:30pm (AEDST) Thursday October 20th 2011. This broadcast will be shown on Foxtel and Austar (Channel 648) as well as being streamed live on the Generation One and APAC websites at www.generationone.org.au and www.a-pac.tv After a long deliberation, Maddy Madden and Tania Major combined with industry expert judges have decided on the winners of the 2011 School Song Competition. The winners announcement will be hosted by Maddy Madden and Tania Major. Thousands of school students who have reformed and performed the Generation One theme song with their peers, partnering schools and communities will be watching - and you can too. Videos included ... More...

20 October @ 09:07Add your comment