Media Release
September 23, 2003
New website brings resources home to Indigenous managers
Indigenous people from across South Australia will have a host of professional development information at their fingertips following the launch of a new website tomorrow.
Developed as part of a partnership between the University of South Australia, the South Australia Department of Human Services, and several Aboriginal community-controlled agencies, www.managingwell.net is the online presence of a unique professional development program that offers support and training opportunities to managers and directors of Indigenous organisations.
The website – designed by winner of this year’s NAIDOC week Indigenous Business of the Year, Dreamtime Public Relations, with the input of Aboriginal agencies and managers – includes information on a range of topics, from governance issues for boards and committees, to marketing, mentoring, strategic planning and industrial relations, as well as links to government resources.
The website will be officially launched by the South Australian Minister for Industry, Trade and Regional Development, Rory McEwin, on Wednesday September 24 at 11.30am as part of a three day intensive Managing Well workshop being held at the University of South Australia’s Underdale Campus.
The workshop will be attended by a group of Aboriginal organisations and managers who will take part in sessions on governance, industrial relations, mentoring, leadership and economic development run by Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts including UniSA’s Professor Rick Sarre, University of Melbourne Fellow Lillian Holt and NSW political figure Warren Mundine.
Chairperson of the Managing Well Reference Group, Malcolm Anderson, says the website was just another way that Managing Well was working to bring professional development resources to the communities that need them.
“The whole aim of Managing Well is to arm Indigenous managers with the skills they need to develop better working relationships with the people they service,” he says.
“The project was developed in direct response to the expressed needs of community agencies, taking into account the cultural context and unique challenges of the environments in which Indigenous managers work.”
“This new website will bring resources to staff of organisations already involved in the program – from the Aboriginal Sobriety Group in Adelaide to the Port Lincoln Aboriginal Health Service on the Eyre Peninsula.”
What: Managing Well website launch
When: Wednesday, September 24, 11.30am
Where: Building V, Kaurna Higher Education, UniSA Underdale campus.
Media contact
- Deirdre Tedmanson,
Managing Well manager and UniSA lecturer, ph: (08) 8302 4311,
mobile 0439 990 889 - Charlotte Knottenbelt, UniSA media officer, ph: (08) 8302 0578, mobile: 0439 807 004