Call for remote training to be culturally relevant
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A researcher says training for remote community residents in central Australia needs to be reformed.
Naomi Rea from the Desert Knowledge Co-operative Research Centre spent several years studying work and training programs with the Anmatyerre people north of Alice Springs.
Dr Rea says she found training needs to be culturally relevant and jobs must have the approval of community elders.
She suggests more people from communities could work as cultural advisers to people working on their land.
"If they were supplying this cultural awareness training there'd probably be less turnover of staff, better understanding, better harmonisation between different cultures that are operating and doing the sorts of different things that are underway on country," she said.
