Redfern NAB
This year the Redfern NAB meetings are based on an issue/THEMED PROGRAMME, so that AGENCIES CAN identify the relevant meeting to attend, based on their expertise. This month – Community Health Service and Older People Services Read More…
I ON EXCELLENCE – NCIE Newsletter 1 – May 2009
This is the text of the first National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE) newsletter which was distributed in May 2009. The distributed PDF was not searchable or possible to copy from so we have made this text version from an OCR of the newsletter. It should be noted that the text of the pdf new Read More…
The NCIE Indigenous Employment & Training Coordinator Job Poster – Closes 27 May 2009
This Indigenous Employment & Training Coordinator is a key position within the NCIE. The person selected will be responsible for implementing the Indigenous Employment and Training Plan. For further details contact the NCIE. File is 713Kb PDF. Download: POSTER Recruiting Now – Indigenous Employment & Training Coordinator.pdf »
NCIE – Staff Structure – May 2009
This diagram shows the staff structure proposed for the NCIE in May 2009. The diagram is taken from the position Description for the Indigenous Employment & Training Coordinator and is included here to provide an indication of the organisational structure and the kinds of jobs provided by the centre. You can express interest in jobs … Read more
Wheelchair access at top of Macdonaldtown station stairs
IT COULD be Sydney’s stupidest station – Macdonaldtown, right next door to the city and in the heartland of the progressive Inner-West, boasts a wheelchair-accessible phone and ramps for wheelchair users to get on and off trains reports Joe Hilderbrand in The Daily Telegraph of 18 May 2009. Read More…
KIMBERLEY’S PASTORAL JEWEL TO BE RETURNED
ROEBUCK Plains, a cattle station purchased amid controversy by the Indigenous Land Corporation before becoming a $30million jewel in the Kimberley pastoral industry, is to be handed back to Aboriginal traditional owners reports Stuart Rintoul in the Australian of 19 May 2009. [REDWatch Note – While Read More…
Trust Action: North Eveleigh
In early 2009, NSW Planning Minister Kristina Keneally approved the North Eveleigh Concept Plan writes Graham Quint in the National Trust Magazine (NSW) for May – July 2009. Read More…
Chap off the old Block is pushing hard for the new
Like the Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy, who fought early colonists, Mick Mundine is no shirker and is hell bent on redeveloping The Block, his patch for almost 40 years. John Ellicott reports in the Sydney Morning Herald of 18 May 2009. Read More…
Jobs For The Mob
With the global economy in trouble, joblessness is on a lot of people’s minds. A program in Sydney’s Redfern is relieving this anxiety for many. The Koori Job Ready course trains unemployed Aboriginal men – including some who’ve had difficult home lives – for jobs in the construction industry report Read More…
Idol auditions at Redfern
Narrow definitions of talent are gone and the hunt for genuine individuality is on at Eveleigh this weekend, where auditions for the seventh series of Australian Idol are underway reports Kim Shaw on Central on 16 May 2009. Read More…