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Big names join fight against Indigenous poverty

Some of Australia's leading business people have joined forces to help eliminate Indigenous disadvantage and poverty. How the campaign will work, however, is unclear.

"We do not have a plan. We have plans for more job opportunities, more mentoring and education opportunties, but we don't really have a set plan to say this is the problem and this is how we're going to fix it," she said.

A-listers launch Aboriginal push

SYDNEY - AUSTRALIA'S Hollywood A-listers, prime minister and top tycoons were to launch a new campaign for Aboriginal jobs on Friday with a spectacular light show at Sydney's iconic Opera House.
Cate Blanchett and Russell Crowe will join Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Andrew Forrest, the country's richest man, whose 'Generation One' campaign aims to find jobs for disadvantaged Aborigines at Australia's top corporations.
They will be among more than 400 prominent personalities, including billionaire gaming magnate James Packer, who will project their handprints on to the harbourside building's famous 'sails'.


ED"S NOTE
When its time to move this is what he leave In Western Australia, Anaconda Nickel, when controlled by Andrew Forrest, had undertaken to put $1 million a year into an indigenous trust in return for access to land, but the case is now in court over alleged non-payment by a new owner to Aborigines of almost $12 million.