Business performance
Welcoming First Nations apprentices to our assets
Creating employment opportunities for First Nations peoples is a major element of our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) 2023–2025. A partnership with our operations and maintenance supplier Ventia and social enterprise Muru Mittigar is contributing to our reconciliation efforts by creating jobs specifically for First Nations peoples. The program began in FY22, with two First Nations apprentices joining Ventia’s Hills M2 landscaping team in New South Wales. This year the program expanded, with a further two First Nations apprentices joining the Ventia teams in Sydney and additional Muru Mittigar employees working with another Transurban maintenance supplier on the M7. Muru Mittigar is Dharug-led and offers culturally appropriate support to build financial independence and long-term employment outcomes for First Nations peoples. New program participants were welcomed into their new team via a traditional smoking ceremony conducted by Elder Uncle Wayne. All participants are successfully progressing in their qualifications – the program is creating newly skilled workers in an industry where these skills are in high demand. This initiative was a finalist in the 2023 Social Procurement Game Changer Awards.
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