Antinuclear

The Australian Uranium Association’s plan to make Aborigines become uranium miners

Uranium industry to set Indigenous jobs benchmark ABC News By Myles Morgan  April 27, 2012   The body representing Australia’s uranium miners and associated businesses says the industry will start to set targets for Indigenous employment from this year. The Australian Uranium Association says each company it represents
will set its own targets for providing jobs to indigenous people, which will be reviewed annually.

Association chief executive Michael Angwin says Indigenous people deserve to be represented in the uranium industry. “Our projects are mostly on land owned by Indigenous people,” he said…… He says says the plan follows advice from the association’s Indigenous Dialogue Group……

April 27, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | aboriginal issues, AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL