Search Results

This National Roadmap provides a long-term commitment and organising framework to implement actions that will lift economic outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Its aim is to drive Government and industry investment in human, social and economic capital and connect Indigenous Australians to jobs and industry opportunities. The National Roadmap and its focus on enabling economic opportunity will complement the National Agreement on Closing the Gap and its focus on addressing social inequalities. The National Roadmap and its delivery is a collaborative effort between governments, business, industry, the public and non-government sector, and Indigenous Australians. The involvement and leadership of all sectors will be required to effect meaningful change in partnership with Indigenous Australians.

The National Roadmap is organised around three key domains: (1) skills: youth transitions from school to further education and training, entrepreneurship and employment; increase access to and completion of vocational education and training and higher education; and promoting career pathways, skills and opportunities for Indigenous Australians to upskill into technical and leadership roles and to start and grow a business; (2) jobs: improving the delivery of employment services so Indigenous Australians achieve better job outcomes; and complementary actions to get more Indigenous Australians in to work, access to career advice and support career aspirations; and (3) business: activating land, sea, water and cultural resource rights; increasing demand for Indigenous business across a broader range of industry sectors; and improving supply side support by investing in capability and increasing access to capital and markets. Each domain is underpinned by a series of policy pillars designed to drive enhanced economic opportunities and pathways to sustainable change.

Edited excerpts from publisher's website. Show less