Staff and inmates from Glen Innes and South Coast correctional centres are working to build modular houses and new kitchens for Aboriginal families in.
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Swinburne supports remote communities to develop trade skills
In remote Northern Territory communities where ongoing employment can be hard to come by, Swinburne has partnered with Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation (ALPA) to provide more than 1,200 locals with accredited training to develop the skills of local Indigenous people, leading to sustainable and meaningful employment.
A growing project
The program launched in 2014 as a three-month pilot called ‘Doors to Jobs’. The pilot was a massive success, resulting in the highest employment outcome of any trade training ever undertaken in East Arnhem Land.
Since then, Swinburne has been running courses in eight locations in Arnhem Land, including in first aid, chainsaw operation, small motors maintenance, painting, concreting, bricklaying, carpentry, construction induction, welding, horticulture, landscaping, introduction to allied health, basic computing, and digital media.
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Saint John Tool Library
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The Saint John Tool Library is moving into a bigger home, a move its founder says will allow the business to grow its membership and community programs.
The library and training centre will stay in the uptown area, moving from its 160 Union Street location to 100 Princess Street.
Founder Brent Harris says the hunt for a new location had been going on for a while due to issues with their current landlord, who took ownership of the Union Street building not long after the Tool Library opened.
“Long story short, in month five of being open, we were fighting to stay there and the issues that were issues brought up by the building inspectors never ever got rectified and beyond that, we were never able to get a lease,” said Harris. “So from an organizational point, we were really month-to-month here, and for any kind of business organization that’s just a tonne of instability to try to build anything off of.”