"The potential of the Australian minerals industry to generate considerable
national revenue can be jeopardised in periods of economic growth by fostering
a shortage of relevant educated and skilled personnel. Legal reforms of the
1990s, public pressure, and benefits by employing local Aboriginal people
has driven the installation of work-integrated learning programs designed
to reduce the skill shortage by increasing the employment rate of Indigenous
people in the mining industry. This article reports five years of primary data
to detail nationally accredited attainments and relevant job outcomes of an
Indigenous education-vocation program that has delivered sustainable jobs
in a substantive remote mining operation in northern Australia. Identified
barriers for applicants and vocational career choices that are framed by
values and priorities held by regional Indigenous people are discussed to
focus on a conclusion challenging the mining industry and the government
to disclose how Indigenous training schemes are ameliorating the skills gap
in the Australian mining industry.
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