A mining giant awarded a contract to an Indigenous-Australian business. BHP recently offered an automotive tender to Cedrent Enterprises. The successful bidder will spend the next three years...
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A multinational mineral producer recently spent big on small, local and indigenous businesses. BHP’s local buying program recently awarded a total of 67,000 work packages, collectively worth...
Conversations and collaborations about the resources sector’s future must include Indigenous Australian communities, a panel found. About 80 per cent of future minerals are based on Indigenous...
First Nations-owned businesses supplied 36 per cent more in the past financial year, the latest data shows. Nearly 150 First Nations enterprises out of a total 535 Indigenous suppliers did business...
An anti mining activist lost his legal stoush against a foreign backed $21 billion coal development on August 15, and now faces losing his home after being ordered to pay a massive bill for legal...
Despite 23,000 resources jobs lost in Queensland during the downturn, new data reports a 20 per cent increase in the number of Indigenous employed in the sector last year. The Queensland Resources...
Central Queensland indigenous groups have rejected claims Wangan and Jagalingou elders had voted to support the Adani Carmichael Coal Mine and have confirmed legal action is still ongoing. Despite...
THE State Government has committed $100,000 to renew an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander jobs partnership with the Queensland Resources Council. Treasurer and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres...
With National Reconciliation Week commencing on Wednesday, BHP Billiton CEO Andrew Mackenzie announced the company’s support for Constitutional Recognition and the Recognise campaign. Reflecting on...
FOURTEEN indigenous women will be climbing behind the wheel as haul truck operators as part of a new iniative, Sisters in Mining. The women, from Woorabinda in central Queensland, will be up-skilled...
