Staggering Indigenous unemployment rates: ‘We’re still fringe dwellers economically’

Alasdair McDonald
Updated June 14 2017 - 5:01pm, first published 12:00pm
David Dixon hopes his research will lead to a discussion on the rate of Indigenous unemployment he says sits at ten times the Bega Valley rate. Picture: Angela Wylie
David Dixon hopes his research will lead to a discussion on the rate of Indigenous unemployment he says sits at ten times the Bega Valley rate. Picture: Angela Wylie

The rate of Indigenous Australian unemployment in the Bega Valley is as staggeringly high as 70 per cent, claims one local researcher.

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