Although labour force participation rates for Indigenous people still remain well below the levels for non-Indigenous Australians, there have been some improvements in employment rates and in the diversity of careers being pursued by Indigenous Australians. This report looks at positive examples of Indigenous employment to highlight some of the outcomes and identify the factors...

This paper provide the first ever baseline of data on the job search behaviour of Indigenous job seekers and how it compares to the job search of non-Indigenous job seekers, with clear differences between these groups. Indigenous Australians rely disproportionately on friends and relatives as a source of information about jobs, although their networks tend...

This paper argues that the factors underlying Indigenous employment should be examined separately for areas where the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is relatively prominent.