Australian firm, New Century team up to add jobs

SYDNEY - A zinc producer in Australia's far north is set to hire a workforce made up of 50 percent indigenous staff, after a landmark joint partnership agreement was reached with the local aboriginal community.

Situated in Queensland state's Gulf of Carpentaria, the area around the New Century Resources mine site is a vast and remote region.

Although a beautiful landscape with such isolation, many indigenous communities nearby have experienced high levels of unemployment and a significant amount of social disadvantage.