Corporate Report for the year ended 30 June 2022
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Our social procurement approach enhances the competitiveness of the businesses we buy from. By creating jobs for disadvantaged people, our approach also delivers value to the communities these businesses operate in. Social procurement
Our Sustainable Procurement Program includes social procurement practices which to direct our purchasing power to support small and under-represented businesses, including businesses owned by, or supporting: women; people with disabilities; the long-term unemployed; and social enterprises (businesses that create jobs for disadvantaged groups). In Australia, we are a member of Social Traders, an organisation that connects businesses with certified social enterprises. We also have a dedicated Sustainable Procurement Manager who supports our teams in developing social procurement partnerships that deliver shared-value outcomes. In FY22, our program expanded to include new partnerships. In Brisbane, we dressed our new Mental Health First Aiders in TradeMutt’s PPE shirts, featuring colourful and vibrant designs intended to serve as conversation starters and connect our people with their newly minted mental health first aiders. TradeMutt are a social impact workwear brand that contributes shirt sale proceeds to TIACS, a free text, chat and call-back service staffed by mental health clinicians.
roads—taking photos of licence plates and processing the images using auto recognition to identify the customer. These photos need to be regularly reviewed for quality assurance, and Multicap’s team is now undertaking this important task. This initiative is enabling people with disabilities to gain skills, training and employment experience in a technology-based industry with support from our partners. Our decade-long partnership with Ability Works, a Melbourne-based social enterprise employing people with disabilities and members of the community facing significant employment barriers, was recognised at the 2021 Asia-Pacific Shared Value Awards. We were finalists in the Best Shared Value Idea Collaboration of the Year (early stage) category, for our ongoing shared value partnership with Ability Works, our supplier Aurecon, Apricot Consulting and RMIT University. Ability Works delivers our mail- house and tag processing services. We also continued working with Apricot Consulting and their academic partners (RMIT and The University of Melbourne) to help us develop and grow our social enterprise and other shared-value partnerships. In Australia, we support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with commitments for employment, training and development as well as spending with accredited businesses.
With Ventia, our NSW road operations and maintenance provider and Muru Mittigar, an Aboriginal (Dhaurg) not-for- profit organisation, we established an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander skill development and long-term employment program. Now, two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander apprentices are working on the M2 Motorway and studying for their qualifications. To date, we have spent more than $130 million with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses through our major projects, and we continue to explore ways we can enhance our engagement and partnerships. In North America, we and our partners, Macquarie Capital, continued our Maryland Express Lanes Project—Phase 1 local workforce development activities. These included: engagement with women/veteran/ minority-owned and small businesses; union and local contractor involvement; and partnerships with community organisations and educational institutions.
We also partnered with Multicap, a disability employment and skills-
development service, and Q-Free Australia, our image processing and review service provider, to create job opportunities for Multicap participants. Q-Free monitors vehicles without tags on our Brisbane
To date, we have spent more than $130 million with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses on our major projects.
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