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Supporting Today’s Leaders to Nurture the Leaders of Tomorrow

Supporting Today’s Leaders to Nurture the Leaders of Tomorrow

Selina Bowen joined the Program as a Skilling Leader in 2014. She has now graduated ...
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Loving Mum

Loving Mum, Hard Worker and Leader of Tomorrow

Val Williams started out with the Cape York Leaders Program as an Academic Leader from ...
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Cruise Control

Cruise Control

Maryann Kerindun didn’t want to just sit around during her retirement. Now, thanks to MPower ...
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MPower = Girl Power

MPower = Girl Power

Courtney Perrier is online and on track to make the most of her gap year. ...
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Westpac donation strikes a chord with students

Westpac donation strikes a chord with students

Djarragun College students are jamming, since a $19,000 donation from the Westpac Matching Gifts program ...
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SET Sail on Your Child’s Education

SET Sail on Your Child’s Education

Harold Bowen is about to send his son on an exciting educational journey. The electrician ...
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Growing Families

Growing Families

Seedlings and children both flourish in gardens. Just ask the Coen families who got together ...
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Growing Opportunities

Growing Opportunities

Working with POP has been child’s play for Heather Woolla. Since she joined the program ...
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Book of Love

Book of Love

Trixie Kerr is creating something very precious for her children and grandchildren—a book of memories. ...
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Time to Share

Time to Share

Several generations of Hope Vale women travelled to Laura in August to share their parenting ...
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Bama employees are achieving their goals

Bama employees are achieving their goals

Kayla Mallie became a mother at 14 and, as a result, left school early. “I ...
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Strength through saving

Strength through saving

Strength through saving “Believe in yourself and you will achieve.” Sometimes, a little extra support ...
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Positive Parenting Message

Positive Parenting Message

Festival attendees came in droves to the O-Hub activity tent to learn about the types ...
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Bama at Laura

Bama at Laura

Did you go to the Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival? We Did! And it was spectacular! ...
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Our Young Leader CEO for a day

Our Young Leader CEO for a day

A young Aboriginal woman from the Far North Queensland town of Hope Vale became CEO ...
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Sharing the Cape York Experience

Sharing the Cape York Experience

Hope Vale-based Indigenous MPower Coach/Consultant, Zeila Wallace, will join a high-profile panel of experts in ...
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Inspiring Others to Help Their Families

Inspiring Others to Help Their Families

When Olga George’s relatives asked her why she was always able to be the first ...
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Joel is bound for Canberra to convene with the Big Wigs

Joel is bound for Canberra to convene with the Big Wigs

Congratulations to Cape York Leaders Program Academic Leader Secondary student, Joel Johnson, who has been selected ...
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Tackling Money Problems Head On

Tackling Money Problems Head On

Bernadette Ross-Kelly had wanted to get a better car so went and saw a car ...
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Online Convert

Online Convert

It was through the Coen grapevine that Olive Pratt heard about MPower and online banking. ...
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