Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness) Share this | Hansard source

On top of those 200 jobs, the ILC is contributing significantly to employment and training. They will provide a further 150 trainees as well as cover a variety of operating costs. This will become a training hub and employment generating facility in the Territory but also it will attract Indigenous Australians from across the country in the tourism and hospitality sectors to be trained at this hotel, which will create employment in tourism across the country. It is an important part of the government's policies and we are working, as I said, very closely with the ILC and with business.

At the same time, the ILC recognises that we need to encourage Indigenous small businesses and Indigenous economic development through the facility. The ILC will be employing a business development officer to work with local businesses on procurement strategies to try to ensure that we drive Indigenous businesses, because we know when we are supporting Indigenous businesses we are creating Indigenous jobs. (Time expired)