Closing the gap by investing in jobs and housing

The Albanese Labor Government is making a landmark investment in new remote jobs and housing as part of the 2024-25 Budget. These practical measures will accelerate progress to close the gap.

Labor’s Remote Jobs and Economic Development Program is on track to start in the second half of 2024, and is all about self-determination through economic opportunity and community development.

Closing the gap by investing in jobs and housing

The Albanese Labor Government is making a landmark investment in new remote jobs and housing as part of the 2024-25 Budget. These practical measures will accelerate progress to close the gap.

Labor’s Remote Jobs and Economic Development Program is on track to start in the second half of 2024, and is all about self-determination through economic opportunity and community development.

Television interview - Sky News Afternoon Agenda

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Communique - First Nations Reference Group Remote Jobs and Economic Development Program

The First Nations Reference Group for the Remote Jobs and Economic Development Program held its fourth meeting today.

The Remote Jobs and Economic Development program will create 3,000 jobs over the next three years, in remote Australia, to help close the gap in employment outcomes and boost economic opportunities.

Indigenous rangers to gather for national conference on land and water management

Registrations are open for the Dangkal Gwo’yal-wa (Strong Country) Land and Water Management Forum, to be held on Larrakia Country (Darwin) from 27 to 29 August 2024.

This will be the first time Indigenous land and water managers from across Australia have come together to share knowledge on the effective management of Country in over a decade.

Have your say on the new jobs program coming to remote Australia

The Albanese Labor Government is launching consultations with communities and organisations on the design of the new Remote Jobs and Economic Development program (RJED) to replace the old CDP.

The $707 million program, that will start later this year, will deliver real jobs to remote communities across Australia initially creating 3000 jobs over the next three years. These jobs will be real jobs, with decent wages and proper conditions, starting in the second half of 2024.

Have your say on the new jobs program coming to remote Australia

The Albanese Labor Government is launching consultations with communities and organisations on the design of the new Remote Jobs and Economic Development program (RJED) to replace the old CDP.

The $707 million program, that will start later this year, will deliver real jobs to remote communities across Australia initially creating 3000 jobs over the next three years. These jobs will be real jobs, with decent wages and proper conditions, starting in the second half of 2024.

Sharing the National Collection: First loan to Northern Territory celebrates First Nations art on Country

Four works by Albert Namatjira will go on display at the Araluen Art Centre in Alice Springs to commemorate its 40th anniversary as part of the Albanese Labor Government’s Sharing the National Collection program.

The works by Namatjira – one of Australia’s most famous and sought after painters – will be exhibited alongside works by five foundational central Australian artists of the 1970s.

The loan is the first to the Northern Territory under Sharing the National Collection and the largest loan of First Nations works to date.