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We also participate in the Australian Government’s Payment Times Reporting Scheme, that aims to improve payment times for Australian small businesses. Under this scheme, large businesses (including Transurban) must report their payment terms and timings for small businesses. In the first half of FY25, we paid 99.1% of Australian small businesses within 30 days. This year we also continued to provide enhanced terms for our social enterprise and First Nation suppliers, paying these invoices within 14 days, and giving these businesses additional cash flow confidence. In the US, our Net 14 Payment Terms program offers the same terms to disadvantaged business enterprise and small, women owned, and minority-owned business certified suppliers. Reducing modern slavery risk We published our FY24 Modern Slavery Statement in December 2024, in accordance with the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth). The statement discusses the modern slavery risks we have identified in our operations and supply chain, and the actions we’ve taken to address these. We did not identify any instances of modern slavery in our operations or supply chain or on our roads in FY24 – but we acknowledge this doesn’t mean modern slavery was not present. As such, we continually enhance our approach to detecting actual and potential instances of modern slavery. In FY25, our supplier engagement focused on further reducing modern slavery risks. Actions we took included: • Updating key policies and codes of practice to strengthen our approach to identifying and managing modern slavery risks. • Fast-tracking our supplier engagement on modern slavery by bringing digital labour rights and modern slavery triage actions forward in the onboarding process. • Delivering tailored modern slavery training to our traffic control room operators and incident response crews (US), and our newly appointed incident response contractor (Queensland). Our FY25 Modern Slavery Statement will be available in late 2025.
Social enterprises benefit from partners who bring collaborative mindsets, who are willing to explore opportunities and who will work with them to create jobs for people with unique skillsets or who face employment barriers. Supporting social enterprises to grow In FY25, Transurban arranged for some of our business partners and suppliers to tour Ability Works in Melbourne. Ability Works is a social enterprise Transurban has partnered with for more than 10 years who provide our tag and mailroom services. The tours allowed our business partners and suppliers to explore how they could potentially use Ability Works’ workforce of people with disabilities to support their own business needs. In Sydney, our partnership with Muru Mittigar, a Dharug-led First Nations social enterprise, continued in 2025. This partnership between Transurban, Muru Mittigar and Ventia (our operations and maintenance partner in NSW and Queensland) commenced in 2022, with the creation of two First Nations landscaping apprenticeships roles on the M2 in Sydney. The successful partnership continued this year, with four new First Nations’ apprentices progressing their qualifications.
Alongside our major business partners and suppliers, we also work with more than 490 small businesses and social enterprises providing PPE, office supplies and everything in between. Small businesses often depend on a reliable cash flow to ensure that their workforce and suppliers are paid on time. In the first half of FY25, 6% of Transurban’s overall Australian spend was with small businesses. $7.5M spent with social benefit suppliers 99.1% of Australian small businesses paid in 1H25 within 30 days Payment time compliance Transurban commits to the Business Council of Australia’s Supplier Payment Code expectations, which expects clients to pay eligible Australian small businesses on time and within 30 days.
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