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1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 min. 58 sec.) ; 162309500 bytes |
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*Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program contains images and voices of people who have died*Senior QLD public servant, Denise Hagan went to Lockhart River for six months and ended up staying for five years. She arrived as just another untrustworthy white bureaucrat who was going to tell the local community what to do. But this program was different. Denise Hagan listened to the locals' dreams and helped put them in place. In the process, Denise fell in love with Lockhart River and the Aboriginal community cried when this 'sister' finally had to leave.With State and Federal Governments often failing to help Indigenous Australians by taking a 'we know what's best' approach to communities in need, Full Circle documents a success story about how this community successfully trialled a unique partnership between government, business and community.The strategy, based on a home grown community plan has shown encouraging results for Lockhart River, so much so, that they have won business awards, set up profitable companies, and adopted it as a permanent approach to addressing community needs.Those involved in the development of the Lockhart River Community Plan, say it would not have succeeded without the trust and respect of the Executive Director of Community Development, Denise Hagan, who listened to the community and supported their ideas. "When we use those traditional approaches with the 'cooked up' outside solutions, it actually limits the creativity of people, so it's much more important to work with their ideas and support them," Ms Hagan said.Dr. Jim Varghese who was appointed the first QLD Government Champion to Lockhart River says, "The result is one of the best strategic plans I have seen in Indigenous Australia, one which speaks from the heart, one to which the government is able to respond."He argues that the Lockhart River experiment has been so successful it should be extended to impoverished Aboriginal communities around the country.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Series Producer: Mike Carey; Producer: Amanda Clarke |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2010-06-13 at 13:30:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Aboriginal Australians -- Employment.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Services for.
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Business enterprises, Aboriginal Australian.
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Community development -- Planning.
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Queensland.
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Streaming video
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Bryce, Quentin, contributor
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Butcher, Wayne, contributor
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Corowa, Miriam, host
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Hagan, Denise, contributor
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Hobson, Dottie, contributor
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Piva, Paul, contributor
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Piva, Veronica, contributor
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Rodney, Rodney, contributor
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Setter, Robert, contributor
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Varghese, Jim, contributor
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Zaicz, Tara, contributor
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