Commendation: Community - Resources
BHP is focused on the resources the world needs to develop and decarbonise, including copper, nickel, potash, iron ore and metallurgical coal for the steel needed for global infrastructure and the energy transition.
Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal Corporation (AM-YAC) is incorporated under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006. It represents the Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara native title holders in relation to native title land encompassing a significant area of the Far North of South Australia including Tarcoola, Coober Pedy and Cadney Park.
Program: Resource Industry Pathways program
Premier's Awards category: Community - Resource sector
Prominent Hill mine collaborated with Career Employment Group (CEG) and Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal Corporation (AM-YAC) to deliver a program centred around the delivery of RII20120 Certificate II in Resource and Infrastructure Work Preparation. The aim of this program was to support Aboriginal students in being ready for entry level jobs in mining.
The program helps students develop common skills that a range of employers look for, and provides them a foundational skill-set for a career in mining, building their capability and enabling them to gain meaningful employment.
This would also allow the retention of skills in the local community. Young people are future role models and leaders of their communities, so we wanted to nurture them by proving opportunities, employment, and growth.
Resource Industry Pathways was implemented in Port Augusta Secondary School (PASS) as a vocational education and training (VET) course.
Since completing the program, one student has gained an apprenticeship with another local mine, other students have gone on with tertiary education or local traineeships. We also had the pleasure of providing an apprenticeship at Prominent Hill with our contractor Qube.
Establishment of the pathways program was assisted by the CEO of CEG, Andrew Anninos. There has also been ongoing support from AM-YAC senior elders Ian Crombie, David Brown and Maisie Winton. In addition, there has been more cultural engagement through the support of AM-YAC member Robert Crilly-Taylor who is also the director of Dusty Feet Mob. Robert is supported by his wife and co-director Wanita Calyun.
We are now looking at introducing it into the Coober Pedy Area School for the 2024 intake as we strengthen our relationship with the Coober Pedy Clontarf Academy and Aboriginal Learning centre to ensure that this is accessible to as many students as possible.
Previous awards
- Program selected for the 2022 SA training award
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