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Podcast: JLL Perspectives
Episode: #19 Why more companies are working with Indigenous suppliers - Mick O’Loughlin, ARA Indigenous Services; Laura Berry, Supply Nation; Robin Burton, JLL
Description: Large organisations are increasingly working with Indigenous suppliers in Australia to woo customers making decisions on social values rather than just the bottom line. Governments and major companies including ANZ Bank, Medibank and Australia Post are among groups using their buying power to deliver social change. This is a stark shift from a decade ago, when many firms would have dismissed Indigenous businesses as contenders for facilities management and other building services contracts. The number of Indigenous-owned businesses is growing as a result. Registrations of businesses at least 50-percent owned by Indigenous people grew 180 percent...