Keyword "Aboriginal Employment"

Governments have attempted to correct these past policies by being proactive in promoting Indigenous education and employment, and by putting policies into place to redress the disadvantage that Indigenous peoples face. This chapter considers a range of employment issues that relate particularly to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s employment and some of the employment strategies utilised by governments and organisations to manage diversity and to reduce labour market disadvantage for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

“Mentoring” was a term largely unknown until the 1970’s. Since then, mentoring has received immense coverage in both popular and academic literature and has become the subject of a great deal of research especially in the United States (Clutterbuck 1985, Hansford et al 2003, Murray 1991). In Australia however, research on mentoring is very limited despite the fact that mentoring programs are used in a variety of organisational settings, which include large and small corporations, government departments, universities and schools (Carruthers 1991, Hansford et al 2003).

This thesis focuses on "Closing the Gap" on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disadvantage in the workplace.