POSITIVE DREAMING, SOLID FUTURES

INDIGENOUS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING STRATEGY

2008-2011

Clever-Skilled-Creative

OVERVIEW

• IN JUNE 2006 THE ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT POPULATION IN QUEENSLAND WAS ESTIMATED TO BE 146,429

• WHICH WAS 3.6% OF THE STATES POPULATION

• QUEENSLAND HAS THE SECOND HIGHEST INDIGENOUS POPULATION IN AUSTRALIA WITH 28.3% OF THE NATIONAL POPULATION

• WITH NEW SOUTH WALES’ POPULATION AT 28.7%

• ALMOST 57% OF THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION IN QUEENSLAND ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 25

• A HIGHER RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT

• LOWER LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATE

• MORE LIKELY TO BE IN LOWER SKILLED JOBS

• ON AVERAGE WORK LESS HOURS PER WEEK

• UNDER REPRESENTED IN HIGHER LEVEL JOBS

• HAVE A LOWER MEDIAN INDIVIDUAL INCOME

• LIMITED LITERACY AND NUMERACY SKILLS

• POORER EDUCATION OUTCOMES

• PARTICIPATED IN LOWER LEVEL TRAINING

• POOR HEALTH OUTCOMES

• OVER REPRESENTED IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

• HAVE LOWER INCOME SECURITY AND HIGHER HOUSING STRESS

• 30% LIVE IN MAJOR CITIES

• 48% IN REGIONAL AREAS

• 22% LIVE IN REMOTE OR VERY REMOTE AREAS

• 13% LIVING IN ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER DISCRETE COMMUNITIES

PRIORITY AREAS1. MAXIMISING EMPLOYMENT THROUGH

STRATEGIC ALLIANCES

2. SKILLING INDIVIDUALS FOR WORK

3. BUILDING CAPABILITIES IN COMMUNITIES TO ENHANCE COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND

4. ALIGNING EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT AND TRAINING TO THE NEEDS OF INDIGENOUS QUEENSLANDERS

• THE LOAD PASS RATE FOR INDIGENOUS STUDENTS INCREASED

FROM 69% IN 2004 TO 80 % IN 2008

• WHICH IS HIGHER THAN THE NATION LOAD PASS RATE OF 69%

• THE NUMBER OF YOUNG INDIGENOUS STUDENTS UNDERTAKING A

SCHOOL BASED APPRENTICESHIP OR TRAINEESHIP HAS ALMOST

DOUBLED FROM A BASE FIGURE OF 410 IN 2006 TO 798 IN 2009

• AS AT SEPTEMBER 2010 THERE WERE 762 INDIGENOUS STUDENTS

TRAINING IN A SCHOOL BASED APPRENTICESHIP OR TRAINEESHIP

SKILLING QUEENSLANDERS FOR WORK INITIATIVE

ALMOST 7,000 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PROVIDED

WITH:

• JOB PREPARATION

• ACCREDITED TRAINING AND

• PAID WORK PLACEMENTS

AS AT 30 SEPTEMBER 2010

• 3849 INDIGENOUS APPRENTICES WERE IN TRAINING

REPRESENTING 4.08% OF ALL APPRENTICES AND TRAINEES IN

TRAINING

AT THE SAME POINT IN 2009 THERE WERE:

• 3874 INDIGENOUS APPRENTICES AND TRAINEES IN TRAINING

• THE LESS THAN 1% DECLINE IN THE NUMBERS BETWEEN 2009 AND

2010 IS A POSITIVE RESULT GIVEN THE BROADER IMPACT OF THE

GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON APPRENTICE AND TRAINEES

NUMBERS

• THE NUMBER OF INDIGENOUS STUDENTS ENROLLED IN

CERTIFICATE IV AND ABOVE COURSES AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER

2010 TOTALLED 697

• THIS REPRESENTED 3.1% OF ALL ENROLMENTS

• 252 QUALIFICATIONS WERE COMPLETED IN CERTIFICATE IV AND

ABOVE AT SEPTEMBER 2010

• THIS REPRESENTED 3.6% OF ALL QUALIFICATIONS AWARDED.

TRAINING INITIATIVES FOR INDIGENOUS ADULTS IN REGIONAL AND REMOTE

COMMUNITIES

• IN 2010 APPROXIMATELY 1,700 INDIGENOUS

QUEENSLANDERS UNDERTOOK TRAINING

OR RECEIVED TRAINING SUPPORT

SERVICES UNDER THIS PROGRAM