Indigenous Australians Overcoming Vulnerability to Employability by Creating a Viable Labour Market for Local Challenges

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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 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 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 sensit

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Dr. Cecil A. L. Pearson, Mrs. Sandra Daff, klaus.helms. 2014. "Indigenous Australians Overcoming Vulnerability to Employability by Creating a Viable Labour Market for Local Challenges". Global Journal of Human-Social Science - H: Interdisciplinary GJHSS-H Volume 14 (GJHSS Volume 14 Issue H2).

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Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/GJHSS

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educational vocational trainingindigenous employmentjob vulnerabilityUnemployment
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  • Submission ReceivedDecember 8, 2013
  • Peer Review Double Blind
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  • Accepted January 2, 2014
  • Published January 15, 2014
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Indigenous Australians Overcoming Vulnerability to Employability by Creating a Viable Labour Market for Local Challenges

Dr. Pearson
Dr. Pearson Curtin University
Mrs. Daff
Mrs. Daff
  • Submission ReceivedDecember 8, 2013
  • Peer Review Double Blind
    Handling Editor
  • Accepted January 2, 2014
  • Published January 15, 2014