be very relevant to a career in international development as the issues faced by Aboriginal Australia deserves strong and commited community development workers, health proffessionals, midwives, teachers and other education workers, program managers, social workers, environment/land rights specialists/creative arts industry people eg film makers, artists, musicians...there are lots of fields available. The other thing about being here is that you can gain experience working in projects that are funded! From my experience and knowledge, so many development projects struggle with budgets, funding and ongoing income to execute projects, so at least in Australian soil you can get a feel for how projects with financial capacity operate. In summary, I found a short term job in one of the remote communities in NT (for the school holidays, however workers often take long leave for 1-2 months at a time and you can put your name on a roster for short job openings). From this opportunity, the organisation has offered me an interview for an upcoming position not advertised publically. Everyone I talk to that lives here says it is not so difficult to find work here, so if you are open minded and want to contribute to 'closing the gap' why not try NT, Alice Springs, Darwin or the Central Australian (WA/SA desert regions) for a career? Although things change and nothing is ever set in concrete, for me, my career tactic is to be in NT for some time to get more experience and then retry the job search abroad