Senate debates

Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Questions without Notice

Resources Industry

2:54 pm

Photo of Matthew CanavanMatthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Of course there has been an enormous amount of employment to deliver this important project. At the peak of the project, 10,000 people were employed on this particular site, but I'd like to, in the limited time I have, particularly focus on the benefits to the local Indigenous community. As I said, it's been the largest project in the Northern Territory's history, and that has meant that throughout the project 1,471 Indigenous Australians have been provided with employment and 62 Aboriginal businesses have been contracted to work with the project, and those contracts have amounted to $175 million in value. It has been one of the most enormous benefits to Indigenous Australians from a specific project in our nation's history. Tomorrow, I will have the honour of joining INPEX as they sign an agreement with the Larrakia people, a $24 million investment to provide further benefits to the local Indigenous community over the next 40 years.

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