Removing barriers to Aboriginal employment

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📷 L-R: Winda-Mara’s Michael Bell, Reason Party MP Fiona Patten, Woor-Dungin’s Naomi Murphy and CIJ’s Stan Winford

RMIT researchers have partnered with Aboriginal organisations on a new project to tackle barriers to employment for Aboriginal people.

Building on earlier successful work addressing this issue, the Rethinking Criminal Records project will educate employers and job seekers about their rights and obligations in disclosing criminal history.

The project has been given $300,000 by the Victorian Legal Services Board to enable project partners to work with Aboriginal job seekers in regional communities and across the state once COVID-19 restrictions lift.

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Fiona Patten is the founder and leader of the Reason Party and a Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Northern Metropolitan region. She came to politics after 20 years of lobbying for the rights of organisations involved in the sexual rights movement – including small businesses, sex workers, HIV/AIDS organisations, adult media and online anti-censorship groups. Before that she was an established independent fashion designer with her own label called Body Politics.

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