Largest group of Indigenous APS employees recognised

Graduating Department of Agriculture, Forestries and Fisheries - Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service trainees Stan Banu and Sabrina Ober with (centre) APS Indigenous Employment Manager, Department of Defence, Ezra Anu.

From left: Vanessa Morris, Graduate, Bureau of Meteorology; Rennae Waters, Graduate, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; Brett Lockyer, Graduate, Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia; Stacey Anderson, Department of Human Services; Kerrie Tim, Senior Advisor, Indigenous Engagement, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.

Seventy-five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees throughout the Australian Public Service (APS) were recognised for successfully completing their respective APS Indigenous Graduate, Cadetship and Traineeship Programs in 2011, at a graduation ceremony held in Canberra on 8 December 2011.

This is the largest group to graduate through the Indigenous Pathways Program since its inception in 2005, bringing the total number recruited under the program since its inception to over 600 Indigenous graduates, cadets and trainees.

The ceremony also acknowledged the next intake of Indigenous graduates, cadets and trainees who are joining the Australian Public Service through the Pathways programs in 2012. Currently over 100 Indigenous Australians are about to commence their public service journey in 2012.

• Read the Australian Public Service media release.
• Find out more about the Australian Public Service’s Indigenous Pathways Program.
• Listen to our Newslines Radio podcast about Indigenous recruitment programs.