Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

From 1 July 2015 there will be clear and accountable targets to significantly increase Indigenous employees in the Australian government public sector to three per cent by 2018. This equates to around 7,500 Indigenous employees across the Commonwealth public sector. A strong whole-of-Commonwealth recruitment and retention strategy is being developed, with strong reporting measurements, with each entity being held to come up to its target. These significant reforms are in part in response to the Forrest review, Creating parity, and, along with changes to the Remote Jobs and Communities Program, from 1 July 2015, will over the longer term lead to significant growth in Indigenous employment. Increasing Indigenous employment is a joint responsibility of governments and the private sector, and I will have more to say about how the private sector can further contribute.