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Muso's pitch for work and genuine change

Muso's pitch for work and genuine change JEREMY Donovan has vowed to put indigenous reform and jobs at the centre of the federal election campaign in his new role as national ambassador for GenerationOne. The internationally renowned didgeridoo player will push the Gillard government to accelerate reforms to end the disparity between black and white Australians. Donovan said Australian political leaders must be prepared to try radical new approaches to end welfare dependency and try new regimes that fundamentally changed indigenous people's lives. Indigenous people would have their lives transformed only through education and work. "Culture isn't a cape, it's something that runs inside us. Irrespective of the work you are doing, whether it is working in Woolworths or workin... More...

30 April @ 09:22

TALKING ABOUT ONE GENERATION

Daily Telegraph, Page: 42 By Warren Mundine Saturday, 6 April 2013IN February, I spent a week in Kangaroo Island. Perched about 13km from the South Australian mainland and facing the Great Southern Ocean to its south and the Great Australian Bight to its west, Kangaroo Island is remote and sparsely populated.The island is known for its wilderness and natural beauty; seal colonies flourish there. It also has mature agricultural and tourism industries and several small townships.The original Aboriginal population is believed to have left 2000 years ago. In the 1800s, sealers lived there, many with Aboriginal wives’’, mostly women kidnapped in raids on Aboriginal communities. The first official European colony was established there in 1836. It lasted barely four years bec... More...

08 April @ 09:37

Forrest’s challenge over Indigenous jobs

Australian, Page: 2 By Patricia Karvelas Wednesday, 20 March 2013EXCLUSIVEMINING magnate Andrew Forrest will issue a challenge to Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott to tackle the bureaucracy’s obsession with "welfare" and confront the "passive resistance" to his plan to get Aboriginal people into jobs.The chairman of Fortescue Metals Group will also call for teachers to be paid bonuses if the bollom 50 per cent of students at remote schools attend school at the same rate as high performing schools in the city.In a speech in Canberra today, Mr Forrest will say he doesn’t expect one extra dollar to be spent, but wants bureaucrats directed to radically change their approach because Australians are sick of the disparity."It’s a challenge to both.. . to go into this coming el... More...

25 March @ 04:09

A new jobs model is needed to narrow the gap

Australian Financial Review, Page: 43 By Warren Mundine Wednesday, 20 March 2013Despite the funds allocated and a multitude of programs, employment targets for iixligenous Australians have not been met.For decades now Australian governments have been talking about ending the disparity between indigenous and nonindigenous Australians. The sentiments are genuine but so far very little real change has been achieved. I have never seen so much time, effort and money devoted to achieve something without achieving anything much at all.Halfway into the decade of concerted government effort to close the gap, it has become clear that employment targets have not been met and the challenge remains almost as big as when we began.In my view an end to disparity is very simple. And it starts with in... More...

25 March @ 04:08

BCA backs business-led training for Indigenous people

Australian Financial Review, Page: 14 By Fleur Anderson Thursday, 21 March 2013The Business Council of Australia has joined Crown Ltd chairman James Packer, Qantas, Wesfarmers and National Australia Bank in pushing for business-led trairnng for the long-term unemployed among indigenous people to make better use of public funding.BCA chairman Tony Shepherd has backed former ALP national president Warren Mundine, now chairman of indigenous employment group GenerationOne, who wants a change to government training programs, which he says are wasting millions of dollars.Mr Mundine, Mr Shepherd and Fortescue Metals Group chairman Andrew Forrest met in Canberra on Wednesday to pressure Labor and the Coalition to link government-funding training with guaranteed jobs.Opposition Leader Tony Ab... More...

25 March @ 04:06