FED: Indigenous jobless rate worsen without support study

AAP General News (Australia)
02-26-1999
FED: Indigenous jobless rate worsen without support study

An Australian study has found that the proportion of indigenous adults with jobs would
probably fall steadily without public and private sector support.

It's found the rate at which indigenous Australians found work independent of
government-sponsored job schemes fell behind growth in the working-age population between the
1991 and 1996 census.

Dr JOHN TAYLOR of the Australian National University and Dr …