
Indigenous procurement targets ‘smashed out of the park’
The Commonwealth’s Indigenous Procurement Policy has clearly achieved the key policy goals but its broader success is harder to evaluate, writes Jonathan Dutton in GOVERNMENT NEWS: On a Friday night in late June 2015, the high-profile announcement of a new carbon tax price took much of the focus away from another, more unexpected announcement – that of a new Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP). The Abbott government was on the record as saying it intended to individually revi