Local people in real jobs. Aboriginal businesses in real contracts.
Local employment and Aboriginal business participation targets are the commitments most often missed — usually because nobody local was asked to deliver them.
What this covers
- Identifying local Aboriginal people available and interested in the work
- Matching people to roles realistically — including what training or support is needed
- Placement coordination with your workforce or labour provider
- On-the-ground support once people start, so placements hold
- Sourcing and verifying Aboriginal-owned businesses for subcontract and supply
- Tracking and reporting employment, business engagement and local spend
Why placements fail, and what we do about it
Local employment targets are usually met on paper and lost within weeks. The reasons are consistent and practical: transport, accommodation, roster patterns that do not fit community obligations, inductions delivered in a way that does not land, and nobody on the ground when a problem comes up.
We stay involved after the start date. That is the difference between a placement figure and a person still in the job at the end of the project.
Reporting you can use
Head contractors now have to demonstrate that Aboriginal participation was genuine, not nominal — to their client and, increasingly, to a regulator. We produce that evidence as a standard deliverable:
- Aboriginal people employed or engaged, and in what roles
- Aboriginal-owned businesses engaged, and contract value
- Local (Victoria River District and Big Rivers) spend
- Training, mentoring and capability development delivered
- Retention — who was still there at the end