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[The author provides an update] on two initiatives [being undertaken] in Queensland to determine the success or otherwise of [vocational education and training] VET programs for Indigenous peoples. After the elections in 2006 the machinery of government was restructured and the Indigenous VET Initiatives Unit is now responsible for Indigenous VET policy and implementation in Queensland. The Queensland Skills Plan [indexed at TD/TNC 85.453] also came into affect at the end of 2006 and under that policy initiative Tropical North Queensland has become the Lead Institute for Indigenous VET delivery across the State (as well as Marine and Aquaculture). The Indigenous Studies Product Development Unit (ISPDU), which was a business unit located at Tropical North Queensland and which has had a state wide brief to develop courses and resources and undertake research for Indigenous VET for some years, has been subsumed into the new Indigenous Lead Centre.