Community Partnership

<a href="http://www.isx.org.au/resources/clips/1150465933_11577.html"> Roebourne Art Group Coordinator Raelene Saylor talks about the philosophy of Roebourne art at the Bujee-Nhoor-Pu studio. </a><p>

Bujee-Nhoor-Pu is a very active arts group based in Cossack. This group have been operating extremely well, with the art centre full week in and week out. The artists have been very productive in their completion of art-work.<p>

Ngarda* is the Yindjibarndi word for Aboriginal people.

Ngarda Civil & Mining is the acknowledged industry leader in Indigenous employment in the Australian mining industry. It has a workforce of 168, 85 per cent of whom are Indigenous people. The company currently has 6 apprentices, 47 trainees and 2 Academy based trainees. There are 27 Indigenous personnel completing Certificate III in Metalliferous Mining Operations.

Our organisation takes pride in its record of advancing the cause of Indigenous economic development.<p>

We see the accumulation of assets and participation in the mainstream economy as one of the significant opportunities for Australia's Indigenous peoples.<p>

It is also a means of ending the poverty to which so many of our people are subjected to and that so often ends in unacceptably high levels of poor health, rates of imprisonment and a number of other social problems being experienced in our communities.<p>

In recent years horticulture has emerged as an important new industry in Central Australia with the potential to provide significant economic and employment opportunities for Aboriginal landowners. <p>
The current industry focus is on production of early maturing table grapes however research by NT Departments responsible for primary industries (DPIFM) has identified citrus, mangoes, tomatoes, asparagus, dates and other commercial crops suitable also.<P>

Although the event is all about glitz, glamour and fun entertainment the true value of Kimberley Girl lies in the important social benefits it will deliver to the contestants and audience members.<p>

My name is Janine Connors & my business idea is I'd like to go into a chain of hotels about 4-5, here in NSW & also QLD. <p>

Our goal is to develop a centre that will provide skills, knowledge and awareness for emerging Indigenous Communities/outstations/new homelands looking at ways to establish their communities for future sustainability using alternative applications of power and water and the establishment of ventures for the focus of sustainability, life style and profit. <p>
The enterprise will hold a sustainable community development focus and provide research and training for Indigenous governance in the areas of:<p><ul>

Dharnya is the name for the cultural centre located in a traditional Indigenous meeting area and settlement of the Murray Darling basin. The area was the heartland of a remarkable Indigenous civilisation of to 70,000 Indigenous people, who lived in the vicinity in the time before the coming of Europeans. As a result of the efforts of the contemporary community, Dharnya remains an epicentre of Yorta Yorta cultural heritage. It is an ideal site for learning, for social and environmental business and for celebrating Yorta Yorta culture.

<b>Project Purpose</b><p>
To further progress the expansion of Online Patient Health Records for Aboriginal people in remote and regional communities.<p>

At present a project is underway to provide Online Patient Health Records for all of the people in the eleven communities of the Ngannyatjarra Lands in W.A.. They will become the first Aboriginal community in Australia where all of their people will have online health records entered for all their visits to nurses or doctors in their remote clinics and participating hospitals.<p>

This is a project to organize the establishment of local Technology Training and Support Centres (TTSC) in regional and remote communities. The primary beneficiaries will be Indigenous communities who are socially or economically disadvantaged and are on the other side of the Digital Divide.<p>

<b>What would a TTSC look like?</b><p>