The international development literature says that development requires reform leadership and good governance. This is obvious and we have taken great strides engaging all forms of leadership in Cape York Peninsula. We have a model for leadership that we have been promoting based on the idea of “natural leadership�. It is based on the belief there are natural leaders everywhere in our communities at all levels of our families, communities and First Nations. These are not necessarily leaders in a structural sense, they are not present in organisations, they may not have organisational or political power, but they have the moral authority of leadership within them, and they display it within their social environments. As well as ensuring natural leaders are able to contribute to our development we want to support the formal leadership of our First Nations and the formal leadership of our society. We also need good governance of our organisations, rigorous prudential stewardship of our resources, and absence of corruption and mismanagement. Building and maintaining good governance is something we have paid a great deal of attention to over the past two decades and have built capabilities in our organisation to continue the growth of good governance at all levels of our society.
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10. WORK FOR INCOME AND SELF-RELIANCE
Every post-school person is able to work, including unpaid self-reliance, to sustain a living and there are jobs for those needing them, and mobility to go to places where jobs are. It is important to realise that we want our people to work regardless of whether it is for money. Not all work generates an income, self-reliance is also an important aspect of our work agenda. Building ourselves good bush homes on our traditional homelands, looking after our country, fulfilling our cultural and social responsibilities, are also about unpaid work. The dividend we get from self-reliance and this type of unpaid work is different from money, but just as important. Also we require work for income so that we are able to lift ourselves out of poverty and able to build assets and wealth for ourselves and our families. We want to mandate work across the entire spectrum of community members throughout their lives. Everyone can perform work. Everyone must perform work, if we are to have happy lives in the future. 11. ENTERPRISE AND INDUSTRY
Every person or group that desires to establish and operate an enterprise is able to do so, and there is local and regional economic development and industries to sustain them. Amartya Sen who first articulated the concept of capabilities in his book Development as Freedom4 identifies the ability to engage in enterprise as a key capability. Because of the structural constraints Introduction
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