The Australian Government is committed to increasing the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff in the Commonwealth public sector.

When the Australian Defence Force decided to send Indigenous soldiers to Gallipoli to perform a ceremony for elders who fell there, they turned to Norman Daymirringu to lead it.

Eight young Torres Strait Islander men left their island homes early this year to commence a rigorous vocational programme run by Outstation North, a training and employment company based at the Springvale cattle station near Cooktown, North Queensland.