2026-2029 Indigenous Employment Initiative

Who can apply

Department of Health, Disability and Ageing lists this program as open to the following kinds of applicant. It is a starting filter, not the full eligibility test, and the guidelines on the official page are what decide it.

• Indigenous organisations

What the program funds

The purpose of the Indigenous Employment Initiative (IEI) is to create entry level employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who will support the provision of culturally safe, trauma aware, and healing informed aged care to older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through a suitably skilled workforce.

That description is Department of Health, Disability and Ageing's own wording, reproduced from the official listing under CC BY 4.0 (Australian Government default open licence). Our plain-English summaries are being written program by program and this one has not been done yet.

What it is for

This program is categorised under the following purposes. Each one that has a page of its own links to every other Australian grant we track for the same purpose.

• Health

How to apply

Applications for 2026-2029 Indigenous Employment Initiative are made through Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, not through GrantWindow. We do not take applications, charge a fee or act as an intermediary, and any site that offers to apply on your behalf for a government grant is worth a very careful look.

Apply for 2026-2029 Indigenous Employment Initiative on the official site

Applications close in June 2029. Government grant portals are busiest on the final day and several of them close on the stroke of the deadline, so the practical advice is to submit a day early.