Local not-for-profit group Ausum Initiatives has teamed up with Kulbardi, a partly owned and managed Aboriginal office supplies company, to deliver an intensive entrepreneur program for young Aboriginal men and women.
Young Australians are deeply concerned about personal debt and less-than enthused about the nation's economic prospects, according to a survey by local organisation Student Edge.
Just 12 years ago, the founders of Student Edge were students themselves; they've now built up a business with 750,000 members nationally and are set to expand their service offering.
THE rise of Facebook and the fall of MySpace may be regularly reported on in the traditional news media, but several local sites are quietly making their own news by carving out a niche in the social networking race.
