New projects to support more women in aviation

The projects will also help address gender imbalance in the industry and alleviate skill shortages.

The projects include:

• Raising Horizons: Creating School Base Non-traditional Pathways into Aviation program to empower First Nations students aged between 12 and 18 from remote communities across North and Far North Queensland, including the Torres Strait, to pursue careers in the aviation industry, delivered by Gunggandji Aerospace.
• Sky Careers Connect, and Sky Careers Leadership initiatives will promote learning and job opportunities for young girls and women interested in, or already in, the aviation industry. Activities will upskill, empower, and support women at the early stage of their aviation journey and enhance career advancement opportunities, delivered by the Civil Aviation Academy of Australasia.
• Navigating Aviation: Leadership, Culture and Visibility program to promote inclusion and support for business owners in the industry to better understand how to manage, support and retain women in the aviation sector, delivered by Navigating Aviation.
• A Women in Aviation Culture Survey, and a Barriers to the Workplace Survey that will collect feedback on the changing understanding of early career engagement, and focus on what drives women to leave the aviation industry. The Aviator in Schools project will deliver resources, mentor teachers, site visits, career talks and hands-on demonstrations to encourage careers in aviation, focusing on schools with students from underrepresented backgrounds, delivered by Aviation/Aerospace Australia in partnership with the CSIRO.

The projects are the result of an open tender process released in April to address priority areas identified through the Initiative's Strategic Action Plan which will guide the next 2 years of delivery, building on previously funded projects.

Find out more

• Read the Minister's media release—Albanese Government backs women in aviation
• Visit our Women in Aviation page