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Kade Wallace

Emerging First Nations Leaders: Kade Wallace

The Cape York Leaders Program, or CYLP, provides Cape York youth with opportunities for secondary and tertiary education. It also enhances their innate leadership qualities and equips them with the skills needed to return to their communities, as young adults, who can bring about meaningful change. Within CYLP is the Academic Leaders initiative, which pairs motivated

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Natalie Woodleigh has found her home at Bama Services

Natalie Woodleigh Finds Her Niche at Bama Services

Blue-collar workplaces are staffed in majority by males. As a civil construction, building and landscaping services contractor, Bama Services (Bama) is no exception. Approximately 90 per cent of Bama’s labour force represented by men. This does not concern Natalie Woodleigh, Bama’s new Administration Assistant. In fact, Natalie celebrates Bama’s welcoming and friendly culture. She feels

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Emerging First Nations Leaders: Ackron Gavin

The Cape York Leaders Program, or CYLP, provides Cape York youth with opportunities for secondary and tertiary education. It also enhances their innate leadership qualities and equips them with the skills needed to return to their communities, as young adults, who can bring about meaningful change. Within CYLP is the Academic Leaders initiative, which pairs motivated

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Jacob Woibo has his eyes set on his children's future.

Dad’s Eyes Set on Children’s Education

Whether it’s through inconsiderate and controversial cartoons, or a plethora of reports and news articles focused on Indigenous parenting deficit, fatherhood in First Nations communities is becoming increasingly scrutinised and portrayed as lacking. Further, it seems that a meagre amount of light is being shone on positive examples of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fatherhood.

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