1,000 subsidised jobs and Indigenous service providers for the Community Development Program

Remote Australian job seekers will have more employment opportunities and communities will have more say over how the Community Development Program (CDP) is delivered locally under changes to the program. These changes will be part of the first phase of CDP reforms, which aim to increase CDP participants’ attendance and reduce penalties applied to remote…

Remote School Attendance Strategy getting Indigenous kids back to school in Grey

Schools across Australia have returned for another year around 14,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students supported to attend school through the Coalition Government’s successful Remote School Attendance Strategy (RSAS).   Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion, said RSAS has achieved a lot in the last five years since it was established by the Coalition…

Remote School Attendance Strategy getting Indigenous kids back to school in Grey

Schools across Australia have returned for another year around 14,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students supported to attend school through the Coalition Government’s successful Remote School Attendance Strategy (RSAS).   Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion, said RSAS has achieved a lot in the last five years since it was established by the Coalition…

NEW WHEELCHAIR GIVES TEXAS FREEDOM

Six-year-old Port Pirie boy Texas Wilson received an early Christmas present when he took possession of a brand new wheelchair. His mother Jeanette Flynn says it has changed his life. Texas who has a disability following an intraventricular (stroke) haemorrhage at birth was in desperate need of a new chair when his mother, Jeanette reached…