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

(—) (): This government recognises that, whilst we are showing significant improvement in those trends, we are not really going to put a significant dent in the Indigenous employment task without private partnerships and the private sector. We are leading by example; we have committed to a three per cent employment target across the Commonwealth by 2018. This will increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment to over 9,000 people. I was very pleased to launch this strategy with Minister Cash this morning, but we cannot do it without the private sector. We need the private sector to pull its weight. We have introduced the Employment Parity Initiative to get some of the largest employers to support an additional 20,000 Indigenous Australians into real jobs by 2020. We have seven companies already signed up and 4,365 jobs with Accor, Compass Group, ISS Facility Services Group, Spotless, Hutchison, Crown and Sodexo. (Time expired)