Defined Terms and Documents      'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' RTV Social Inclusion Early Intervention Programme 

Work Experience 'At the Leading Edge' means below is an extract from the ATLSEIP 'Main Page':

"A further 20 Year 9 Aboriginal Student Applicants across the Six Regional Townships who -

I.)          scored within the top 10% in the Numeracy, Literacy And English Writing Tests;

II.)         are deemed to be receiving reasonable mentoring and guidance from their family, with at least one parent holding a tertiary qualification or trade licence, and in regular employment; and

III.)        are thereby not invited to be an Accepted Year Aboriginal 9 Student,

upon continuing in Year 11, are each invited, as a Work Experience Recipient, to receive 5 working days Work Experience (over 8 Mentor Days for each Work Experience Recipient) in the Third RTV Year."

Work Experience 'At the Leading Edge' is the title of two  x  60 minutes episodes of a documentary which ABC TV or NITV could telecast from October in the Third RTV Year which follows the journey of up to 20 x  Work Experience Recipients who in most instances will not have previously travelled outside their Regional Township to stay for up to 8 nights with the family of an Employee Elder Colleague of one of the Ten Corporate Sponsors to receive 5 days Work Experience 'At the Leading Edge' of that Corporate Sponsor's primary production activity(s).

Two  x  60 minutes episodes of Work Experience 'At the Leading Edge' provides an opportunity for each of the Ten Corporate Sponsors to display one of their primary production activities, particularly to the Teenager Viewing Audience, which -
*        favourably impacts Australia's 'bottom line' and
*        offers challenging job opportunities with a leading Australian company.  

Not unsurprisingly, such a Work Experience for twenty or so 15 or 16 year old Aboriginal School Student across the Six Regional Townships, the majority of whom had never travelled more than a few hundred kilometres beyond their township, whilst being billeted with an Employee Elder Colleague's family for eight nights in The Big Smoke or at The Coal Face across ten diverse industries, from construction, accounting, legal, mining, banking, retailing, oil or gas extraction, primary production, could be 'a life changing experience', particularly for those with honed 'Survival Skills' as broached in Enable New Role Models In Isolated Country Towns By Building Upon Valuable 'Survival Skills' -  Enhance Pride In These Towns. 

See Four Proposed RTV Programmes.