Professor Peter Shergold, AC supports industry specific training to create sustainable employment for Indigenous Australians. Peter Shergold will be working with GenerationOne to ensure the industry specific training for Indigenous Australians is brought to fruition. Read his approach and speech below: ... More...
16 August @ 02:41Add your comment
GenerationOne held a media launch where both the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott MP, and Tanya Plibersek MP (representing the PM) gave in-principle support to our proposal for Industry Vocational Training and Employment Centres for Indigenous job seekers. This bi-partisan support ensures these IVTECs are now part of the policies of the major parties, regardless of who wins Government. Professor Peter Shergold AC and GenerationOne founder Andrew Forrest gave strong and passionate speeches about the need to make the training system work to deliver jobs that last for Indigenous Australians. You can read Andrew's speech below: ... More...
12 August @ 01:52Add your comment
Through our recent consultation with the communities, towns and cities across Australia, our latest Ideas Forum on Indigenous employment that lasts and the support and comments from you, our supporters, we want to share with you the latest GenerationOne policy development. You can read a letter we have presented to all political parties by clicking here*. The hope is that we receive in-principle support from both parties for industry specific vocational training and employment support for Indigenous Australians. ... More...
11 August @ 11:48Add your comment
Indigenous Business Australia is now offering tailored financial assistance to support mature-aged Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australians who are aspiring to achieve higher educational qualifications in business and administration. ... More...
02 August @ 12:36Add your comment
Check out this mentoring program being offered and jump online to register: http://www.indigenousleadership.org.au/AILC_Invitations/mentoring/diversity_mentoring_2010.html Below are the details of the course: This comprehensive 3 day program is designed for Indigenous Australians who wish to further develop leadership knowledge, skills and networks; and non-Indigenous Australians who wish to work more effectively with Indigenous people within the workplace and/or Indigenous communities. This unique program uses a practical approach to the complexities of mentoring in a cross–cultural context. ... More...
29 July @ 04:02Add your comment
GenerationOne is partnering with Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) to support National Hoodie Day on Wednesday 21st July at the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour NSW. On 21 July 2010 AIME is asking the Australian community to don a Red AIME Hoodie and say to the next generation who are stepping up with AIME - 'We will walk with you'. By doing this you will be supporting all of our Indigenous kids to finish school at the same rate as their fellow Australians. If you would like to support National Hoodie Day and buy a Hoodie, head to www.nationalhoodieday.com.au ... More...
21 July @ 09:02Add your comment
Andrew Forrest, founder of GenerationOne, visited his second family, the Blacks, in Minderoo last week. It's an inspirational story, and the motivation behind Andrew's fight to end Indigenous disadvantage. Forrest frequently recounts the story of a time when he, as a boy, came upon a bull trapped by tree roots in a gully. He had to make a choice between making a 2-day ride to get an axe to cut the roots (a time period in which the bull could drown if it rained) or try to get the bull out on his own. Forrest successfully got the bull out on his own, a feat which gained him praise from his childhood mentor, Scotty Black. ... More...
29 June @ 03:01Add your comment
"This is really exciting our first female Prime Minister!! It has taken Australia long enough to realise how much women have contributed to our country and having the first female PM is a break through on so many levels. I am so glad that I am alive and to be born female in this era, to witness in my state of Queensland "Our First Female Premier", "Our First Female Governor General" and now "Our first female PM." ... More...
24 June @ 08:30Add your comment
Clayfield College's Indigenous Learning Program is a good example of how important education is in helping prepare one for life - and it doesn't just stop there. This program makes use of a holistic approach to achieve its mission to transition, integrate, educate, and provide greater opportunities and better outcomes for the future. Here is an inspiriational story from Mrs. Vicky Jones, the Head of Middle Schooling at Clayfield College: It had been a good day. Her temperature had remained constant at 39 degrees Celsius and the ‘sweats’ had not appeared. Claudia had played word find games, eaten some of yesterday’s cheese burger, and watched the conclusion to ‘Jaws’ and drank two Styrofoam cups of warm, milky Milo. ... More...
24 June @ 02:29Add your comment
A video from NITV News on some final Roadshow thoughts: GenerationOne's Roadshow, which wrapped up in Sydney yesterday, has certainly been a fun, educational, and inspiring journey.Thanks to all that have been participating and devoting their time and resources to the GenerationOne cause - let's continue together in the fight against Indigenous disparity and inequality. ... More...
23 June @ 12:52Add your comment