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THAMARRURR EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING COMMITTEE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING BUSINESS PLAN 2005-2008 INDEX 1.0 BACKGROUND ........................................................................................................ 4 1.1 Thamarrurr Re Emergence ........................................................................................... 4 1.2 The COAG Arrangements ........................................................................................... 5 1.3 The Community Vision, “Local Jobs for Local People” and “Give Every Kid a Chance’ ........................................................................................................................6 1.4 Thamarrurr Regional Council GTNT MOU progress ................................................. 8 1.5 The Employment and Training Committee, Role, Composition, and Authority ....... 10 2.0 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................... 12 2.1 Employment and Training in the Region.................................................................... 12 2.2 The Vision of a Key Elder ......................................................................................... 14 2.3 The Business Plan Methodology ............................................................................... 15 3.0 THE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ENVIRONMENT .............................. 15 3.1 Overview..................................................................................................................... 15 3.2 New Beginnings.......................................................................................................... 16 3.3 The Case for a Whole of Government Approach, Supported by GTNT ................... 17 4.0 PROPOSED STRUCTURE OF EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING SUPPORT ................................................................................................................. 19 4.1 Proposed Organisational Structure ............................................................................ 19 4.2 Overview of Proposed Employment, Education and Training Committee Services . 21 4.2.1 Capacity Building .......................................................................................... 22 4.2.2 Infrastructure .................................................................................................. 23 4.2.3 Preparing Young People ................................................................................ 23 4.2.4 Preparing Adults ............................................................................................ 24 4.2.5 Preparing Businesses and Organisations ....................................................... 24 4.2.6 Active Participation Services ......................................................................... 24 4.2.7 Employment Services .................................................................................... 25 4.2.8 Training Services ........................................................................................... 25 Thamarrurr Regional Council Employment Training Committee Business Plan 2005-2008 Version Two Page 2 of 245 5.0 EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES ..................................... 25 5.1 Existing Businesses/Organisations (Phase 1) ............................................................ 26 5.1.1 Thamarrurr Regional Council Housing Department ...................................... 26 5.1.2 Thamarrurr Regional Council Civil Operations ............................................ 27 5.1.3 Thamarrurr Regional Council - General Structure ........................................ 27 5.1.4 The Pulgun Warungat Association (Takeaway Bakery) ................................ 34 5.1.5 Murinbata Tribal Development Association (Store and Art & Craft Gallery) .......................................................................................................... 35 5.1.6 Health Clinic .................................................................................................. 36 5.1.7 OLSH Thamarrurr Catholic School ............................................................... 38 5.1.8 Aged Care ....................................................................................................... 39 5.1.9 Police .............................................................................................................. 41 5.1.10 Other Work Areas .......................................................................................... 41 5.1.11 Summary of Opportunities 2005/2006 .......................................................... 42 5.2 New Businesses/Organisations or Growth in Existing Business/Organisations (Phase 2) .....................................................................................................................43 5.3 Major Projects (Phase 3) ............................................................................................ 45 5.4 Regional Development/Enterprise Development (Phase 4) ...................................... 47 5.5 The Provision of Priority Training in General Community Needs, Adult Education and Enterprise Training and Facilitation (Phase 5) .................................................... 50 6.0 NOMINAL BUDGET AND SUGGESTED AGENCY/PROGRAM SUPPORT ................................................................................................................. 56 7.0 PROPOSED KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS ......................................... 66 ATTACHMENTS Attachment A Settlement Distribution in the Thamarrurr Region 2003 Attachment B Shared Responsibility Agreement Attachment C Memorandum of Understanding Thamarrurr Regional Council and Top End Group Training Pty Ltd Attachment D Work Experience Program Outline and Action Plan Attachment E Business Plan for Aboriginal Community VET Training Facility Attachment F Kardu Kigay Facility Letter of Approval Attachment G Outcomes of Initial Business Planning Meeting Thamarrurr Development Corporation Attachment H Example Homeland Centre Planning Workshop Outcomes Annex 1 Baseline Profile of the Thamarrurr Population Report to Thamarrurr Regional Council and Northern Territory Office of Indigenous Policy Annex 2 Thamarrurr Regional Council Business Plan 2004/2005 Thamarrurr Regional Council Employment Training Committee Business Plan 2005-2008 Version Two Page 3 of 245 1.0 BACKGROUND 1.1 THAMARRURR RE EMERGENCE The history of settlement of the Port Keats (Wadeye) Community provides a good insight to the current position of the region and the state of its development. The region first saw European contact in the form of the missionary movement in the mid 1930’s, quite late in comparison to the development of others missions in the Northern Territory. Docherty Island was the first location of the mission, and this was subsequently relocated to where the current community is sited today. Aboriginal people from within the region moved backwards and forwards between their clan estates and the mission up until the 1960’s when the first beginnings of permanent housing for local Aboriginal people were constructed. The mission era continued until the advent of community government councils in the Northern Territory in the mid to late 80’s. At that stage the township of Port Keats (Wadeye) operated under the structure of a community government council (Kardu Numida) and the people of the homelands were serviced by the Murin Association. The Kardu Numida Community Government Council collapsed in the early 1990’s causing a significant degree of distress in the community, and particularly among the leadership group of the community. As a result of this collapse the elders of the community sought to understand the basis of the collapse, and put in place an authority structure that they understood, that could be effective in a modern western society. Thus the emergence of the Thamarrurr Regional Council. An authority structure based on the traditional authority structure that was in place prior to the mission era, that has been adapted to suit the modern requirements of governments. The Thamarrurr structure represents land owning clans within the Thamarrurr region as well as the town of Port Keats (Wadeye). An extensive process of consultation took place to establish the structure as outlined in the Taylor Report*. Thamarrurr Regional Council Employment Training Committee Business Plan 2005-2008 Version Two Page 4 of 245 (In the case of Thamarrurr region, such a process involved a rolling series of Northern Territory government-sponsored workshops and consultations held between January 2002 and March 2003 among Kardu Diminin as traditional landowners of Wadeye, as well as the other 15 clan groups from throughout the region who have taken up residence at Wadeye since 1935 on Diminin land. These other clan groups include Kardu Yek Thindi, Kardu Muthirr, Kardu Thankurral, Kardu Yek Yedirr, Kardu Wakal Thay, Kardu Yek Naninh, Kardu Yek Ngaliwe, Kardu Yek Kinmu, Kardu Yek Maninh, Kardu Wakal Bengkunh, Kardu Kura Thipman, Kardu Yek Nangu, Kardu Wunh, Kardu Wakal Thinung, and Kardu Wakal Malgin. The purpose of these workshops was to explore and give form to the reconstitution of traditional modes of regional governance structures into contemporary formal structures (see Desmarchelier 2001) The Thamarrurr region is also described in the following Map. Figure 1.1 Thamarrurr Region and ABS geography* A more detailed map of the region is shown at Attachment A. The re emergence of the Thamarrurr structure has been instrumental in