Rioli Helps Indigenous People Kick Career Goals
Source: Victoria. Minister for Skills and Workforce Participation. Media Release
"Victoria’s indigenous community will be able to follow in football great Dean Rioli’s steps and kick their own career goals thanks to a new $1 million employment initiative funded jointly by State and Federal Governments. Skills and Workforce Participation Minister Jacinta Allan announced the Dean Rioli Aboriginal Employment Service (DRAES) as the agency that will deliver the $1 million Deadly Jobs, Deadly Pathways initiative to as many as 100 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander jobseekers.“With Victoria’s 30,000-strong indigenous community facing low school retention rates, lack of post school qualifications and, as a result, greater unemployment, I am pleased to be able to announce this new initiative that will encourage more indigenous people into employment,” Ms Allan said. Victoria is facing skills shortages in a number of areas including construction and the Deadly Jobs, Deadly Pathways initiative will develop and guide indigenous people into industries facing these shortages.”