Only one week remains to nominate someone for a National NAIDOC Award and acknowledge them as an outstanding and talented Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person.
“A new School Attendance Policy adopted by the Central Desert Regional Council will help improve school attendance.” So says Regional Council President Adrian Dixon.
The Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Nigel Scullion, has today announced a $300,000 grant from the Australian Government’s Community Development Fund for more projects that lead to the creation of jobs in Torres Strait Island communities.
Indigenous survivors of child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory will soon have access to support services, following a $550,000 Australian Government investment in two specialist organisations.
Growing up in a large family at La Perouse in Sydney, Mark Ella, who is now the head of sport at NITV remembers that his parents always encouraged him and his siblings to make sure that they went to school every day.
The Australian Government is supporting social and economic projects that benefit remote Indigenous communities through the creation of jobs and employment-related participation activity, with Koonibba Community Aboriginal Corporation receiving $200,000 for a housing restoration project that will provide jobs and training.
The Australian Government has finalised most of the 30 schools to be included in the expansion of the Remote School Attendance Strategy from Term 2, 2014.
The Australian Government will invest $25 million over eight years to expand the Stronger Communities for Children (SCfC) programme to an additional five Northern Territory communities from July 2014.
