Today we bid farewell to Aunty Fay Carter OAM, proud Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta Elder. She lived a life dedicated to improving the lives of Victoria’s Aboriginal community. She made her mark in Victoria, including by helping to establish the Aboriginal Community Elders Service, and the landmark 2013 native title settlement which formally recognised the Dja Dja Wurrung People as the Traditional Owners of the lands in central Victoria. She will be sorely missed by many and it was fitting that her memory was recognised at a state funeral in Victoria today.
Aunty Phemie Bostock was an inspiration to many in Sydney’s inner west and the Aboriginal arts community. Her deep love of arts, community and Aboriginal rights was evident to all those who were fortunate enough to know her. She was one of the founding members of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative and was exhibited across Australia and the world. Here we are together at the 90th birthday of Undercliffe Public School back in 2017. I think it’s clear to see how her presence could light up a room. My condolences to her family and loved ones on her passing.
Aunty Beryl Carmichael was a role model for our people and an inspiration to her community in Western New South Wales. She lived a life of giving back to her community and the people around her, including by helping to set up the Nyampa Housing Company in Menindee and serving on the first committee of Wiimpatja Rehabilitation Centre in Broken Hill. With her wisdom and leadership, she made a real impact to people’s lives as a director of the NSW Aboriginal Legal Service, and later as Aboriginal Cultural Studies advisor with the Department of Education and Training in 1990. She shared her knowledge and experiences with school children and the wider community across New South Wales, and helped ensure an Aboriginal perspective was heard in the school curriculum. Her legacy lives on in the thousands of lives she touched and in the gentle but firm push she was able to give the arc of history towards justice and truth. It was beautiful that her community could come together last week in Menindee to recognise her life
Meet Nadine! She got her first ever job thanks to our Government’s commitment to real jobs with proper wages and decent conditions. In the communities of Milingimbi and Ramingining, the Hair Dressing Project is providing people like Nadine with opportunities for the future. It’s about building local enterprise, and providing skills and training. It’s projects like this, and our Government’s Remote Jobs and Economic Development Program, that help improve lives in remote communities by creating real jobs with proper wages and decent conditions. We’re getting on with the job of delivering for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, by making a difference in remote communities.
Meet Nadine! She got her first ever job thanks to our Government’s commitment to real jobs with proper wages and decent conditions. In the communities of Milingimbi and Ramingining, the Hair Dressing Project is providing people like Nadine with opportunities for the future. It’s about building local enterprise, and providing skills and training. It’s projects like this, and our Government’s Remote Jobs and Economic Development Program, that help improve lives in remote communities by creating real jobs with proper wages and decent conditions. We’re getting on with the job of delivering for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, by making a difference in remote communities.
Nuclear energy is too slow to keep the lights on, too expensive to build, and too risky for Australia’s future energy needs. This means higher energy bills that you’ll have to pay.
We’re working with remote communities to create real jobs with proper wages and decent conditions. One of those communities is Kununurra in the Kimberley, where I visited today. At Lily Lagoon, we’ve created over a dozen new jobs by working with the Wunan Foundation and MG Corporation, local Aboriginal community organisations. Not only do these jobs provide people with proper wages and training, but it builds a stronger tourism and hospitality sector. That’s good for the whole community. It’s funded as part of our plan to replace the failed Community Development Program with a program that delivers for remote communities. We’re delivering a better future for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
We’re working with remote communities to create real jobs with proper wages and decent conditions. One of those communities is Kununurra in the Kimberley, where I visited today. At Lily Lagoon, we’ve created over a dozen new jobs by working with the Wunan Foundation and MG Corporation, local Aboriginal community organisations. Not only do these jobs provide people with proper wages and training, but it builds a stronger tourism and hospitality sector. That’s good for the whole community. It’s funded as part of our plan to replace the failed Community Development Program with a program that delivers for remote communities. We’re delivering a better future for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
We’re working with remote communities to create real jobs with proper wages and decent conditions. One of those communities is Kununurra in the Kimberley, where I visited today. At Lily Lagoon, we’ve created over a dozen new jobs by working with the Wunan Foundation and MG Corporation, local Aboriginal community organisations. Not only do these jobs provide people with proper wages and training, but it builds a stronger tourism and hospitality sector. That’s good for the whole community. It’s funded as part of our plan to replace the failed Community Development Program with a program that delivers for remote communities. We’re delivering a better future for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
We’re working with remote communities to create real jobs with proper wages and decent conditions. One of those communities is Kununurra in the Kimberley, where I visited today. At Lily Lagoon, we’ve created over a dozen new jobs by working with the Wunan Foundation and MG Corporation, local Aboriginal community organisations. Not only do these jobs provide people with proper wages and training, but it builds a stronger tourism and hospitality sector. That’s good for the whole community. It’s funded as part of our plan to replace the failed Community Development Program with a program that delivers for remote communities. We’re delivering a better future for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
Hello from Milikapiti! It’s a beautiful day as we’ve signed a historic remote housing agreement designed to halve overcrowding. We know that overcrowding leads to poorer outcomes in terms of health, education and safety. If we invest in better housing, we will get better outcomes across the board. This partnership with the Northern Territory Government, Aboriginal Housing NT and Aboriginal Land Councils is vital to successfully delivering homes for more communities across the NT. It will see the construction of up to 2,700 new homes across the Territory. Because we’re committed to improving housing in remote communities and closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Hello from Milikapiti! It’s a beautiful day as we’ve signed a historic remote housing agreement designed to halve overcrowding. We know that overcrowding leads to poorer outcomes in terms of health, education and safety. If we invest in better housing, we will get better outcomes across the board. This partnership with the Northern Territory Government, Aboriginal Housing NT and Aboriginal Land Councils is vital to successfully delivering homes for more communities across the NT. It will see the construction of up to 2,700 new homes across the Territory. Because we’re committed to improving housing in remote communities and closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Hello from Milikapiti! It’s a beautiful day as we’ve signed a historic remote housing agreement designed to halve overcrowding. We know that overcrowding leads to poorer outcomes in terms of health, education and safety. If we invest in better housing, we will get better outcomes across the board. This partnership with the Northern Territory Government, Aboriginal Housing NT and Aboriginal Land Councils is vital to successfully delivering homes for more communities across the NT. It will see the construction of up to 2,700 new homes across the Territory. Because we’re committed to improving housing in remote communities and closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Hello from Milikapiti! It’s a beautiful day as we’ve signed a historic remote housing agreement designed to halve overcrowding. We know that overcrowding leads to poorer outcomes in terms of health, education and safety. If we invest in better housing, we will get better outcomes across the board. This partnership with the Northern Territory Government, Aboriginal Housing NT and Aboriginal Land Councils is vital to successfully delivering homes for more communities across the NT. It will see the construction of up to 2,700 new homes across the Territory. Because we’re committed to improving housing in remote communities and closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Hello from Milikapiti! It’s a beautiful day as we’ve signed a historic remote housing agreement designed to halve overcrowding. We know that overcrowding leads to poorer outcomes in terms of health, education and safety. If we invest in better housing, we will get better outcomes across the board. This partnership with the Northern Territory Government, Aboriginal Housing NT and Aboriginal Land Councils is vital to successfully delivering homes for more communities across the NT. It will see the construction of up to 2,700 new homes across the Territory. Because we’re committed to improving housing in remote communities and closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Investing in First Nations Community Healthcare helps to close the gap. Today we announced a new funding agreement that will give Aboriginal community controlled health organisations the certainty they need to plan for the future. Here’s why this investment is so important.
Great to have a yarn in Beagle Bay! It’s a small Aboriginal community in the Kimberley, and today I heard directly about how we can help create more jobs and better opportunities. Hearing from people with lived experience in remote communities is at the heart of how we’re designing our new Remote Jobs and Economic Development Program. Because we know that to create real jobs with proper wages and decent conditions in remote communities, we need to listen to what they need and how things work in their areas. A big thank you to the community of Beagle Bay, community leaders, and the Nyul Nyul rangers for welcoming me into your space and sharing your thoughts today.
Great to have a yarn in Beagle Bay! It’s a small Aboriginal community in the Kimberley, and today I heard directly about how we can help create more jobs and better opportunities. Hearing from people with lived experience in remote communities is at the heart of how we’re designing our new Remote Jobs and Economic Development Program. Because we know that to create real jobs with proper wages and decent conditions in remote communities, we need to listen to what they need and how things work in their areas. A big thank you to the community of Beagle Bay, community leaders, and the Nyul Nyul rangers for welcoming me into your space and sharing your thoughts today.
Great to have a yarn in Beagle Bay! It’s a small Aboriginal community in the Kimberley, and today I heard directly about how we can help create more jobs and better opportunities. Hearing from people with lived experience in remote communities is at the heart of how we’re designing our new Remote Jobs and Economic Development Program. Because we know that to create real jobs with proper wages and decent conditions in remote communities, we need to listen to what they need and how things work in their areas. A big thank you to the community of Beagle Bay, community leaders, and the Nyul Nyul rangers for welcoming me into your space and sharing your thoughts today.
We’re making an historic investment in remote housing to halve overcrowding in NT remote communities.
Quality early childhood education sets children up for life, from kindy right through to TAFE and university. That would not be possible without committed educators and carers, like the great team at Goodstart Early Learning in Hurstville. The Albanese Government understands the importance of getting wages moving in low-paid female-dominated sectors like early childhood education. And our latest budget committed the funding to provide another pay rise for educators just like those at Goodstart. Because the talented staff that teach our kids deserve proper pay and conditions.
Congratulations to these wonderful people in our community of Barton who received King’s Birthday Honours on Monday.
Wishing all who celebrate Eid al-Adha Mubarak! May this holy day bring you blessings and joy.
Do you know an incredible local healthcare worker here in our community? Their contribution can be celebrated with a Stronger Medicare Award, as part of the Medicare’s 40th anniversary celebrations. Nominations for the Stronger Medicare Awards close 30 June. Don’t miss out on your chance to nominate an outstanding individual or practice who has made significant contributions to primary care in our community, whether they’re a doctor, nurse or practice staff. Our Government is making historic investments into our health system, but it’s the amazing healthcare staff who power Medicare across the country – this is our opportunity to say thanks.
