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Chief Executive Fiona Jose is determined to build a brighter future for her people – and she has the determination and skills to do it.

The concept is simple. It is a job for all those who are able to work. The job pays the minimum wage, superannuation contributions and leave entitlements. It brings the dignity of work to every Australian including the disabled, mentally ill and extremely disadvantaged. And it is a better alternative to passive welfare.

The transition of the Job Keeper and Job Seeker programs to a full employment scheme would effect the most profound change to the country’s employment and welfare system since the creation of the Australian welfare system after the second world war.

IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH ROBINSON ROPEYARN ‘ROBBIE SALEE’  8 October 2019 St Michaels and All Angels Church Injinoo Robbie was there from the beginning of our movement as Pama of Cape York Peninsula. Together with David Byrne Robbie supported this community’s great leader, old man Dan. Robbie was the backroom organiser and administrator for the old leader. Like me he…

Australia, like other nations throughout the developed world, is in the throes of crises of identities. Identity and its politics is the new political correctness.

An independent review of an indigenous welfare program, dumped last week by the Queensland government, has found there is “good evidence” the reforms have helped communities and should be continued.

Australia has an inequality problem. But it is not the inequality problem of the US, as generally ­assumed. The August report of the Productivity Commission, Rising Inequality: A Stocktake of the Evidence, shows Australia has performed very well compared to other OECD countries in terms of containing inequality.

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Over the last 12 months, three Department of Jobs and Small Business staff members have travelled to Cape York in Far North Queensland to work alongside not-for-profit organisations. The work secondments, facilitated by Jawun, assist with the implementation of Indigenous-led projects under reform agenda Pama Futures. Jawun is a not-for-profit organisation that works with Indigenous partner organisations to place skilled…

STUDENTS  from the remote indigenous communities of Aurukun, Coen and Hope Vale will hone their instrumental and vocal skills as part of the 7th annual Queensland Music Festival’s (QMF) Cape York Music Program (CYMP).

Malcolm Turnbull could have just said no. Instead he made the dishonest “No” case. Why? My best explanation is that he got scared by the Indigenous consensus.

THE Cape York Land Council has assured traditional land owners behind the largest native title claim in Australian history that their rights won’t be locked out.