Foot in the door: new contract to open doors for Indigenous business
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander companies will have greater access to lucrative contracts with the NSW government as part of a drive to boost jobs and drive growth in the Indigenous business sector.
The government last year spent $92 million on goods, services and construction supplied by Aboriginal businesses, a 44 per cent increase on the previous year.
It will now seek to grow that under a new procurement policy requiring three per cent of all government goods and services contracts to be awarded to Aboriginal businesses as of January 1.