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WA records $2.1 billion in Indigenous procurement spend, new report finds
Western Australia accounted for $2. 1 billion in Indigenous procurement spend in...
Reece Harley 12 Mar 2026
Australia's biggest awards for First Nations businesses set for Boorloo / Perth
Australia's biggest awards for First Nations businesses are returning to Boorloo...
Brendan Foster 2 Feb 2026
NIBCA welcomes stronger Supply Nation checks amid integrity concerns
The National Indigenous Business Chamber's Alliance (NIBCA) has welcomed Supply...
Reece Harley 7 Nov 2025
Expensive shots, the kind that cost our mob: Gammin calls for collaboration with exclusion as intent
When I wrote my first op-ed, it wasn't about personalities. It was about systems...
Naomi Anstess 3 Nov 2025
Exclusive: Black cladding concerns prompt new AI-focused integrity register - IBIR
Broad concerns over conflicts of interest, contract integrity and misuse of Indi...
David Prestipino 30 Oct 2025
Opinion: Building Indigenous businesses needs cooperation, not cheap shots

Naomi Anstess's opinion piece in the Indigenous Business Review, "Let's get this right: An likely unwanted opinion I am going to give anyway", is a passionate call for greater recognition of, and supp...

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Kate Russell Oct 22, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Indigenous business owner accuses Supply Nation of silencing criticism after deregistration

Supply Nation, a national certifier of Indigenous-owned enterprises whose database underpins much of Australia's corporate and government procurement, has deregistered a Queensland business following...

Reece Harley Reece Harley Oct 17, 2025
Exclusive: Non-Indigenous 'Tiwi Man' letters under scrutiny

In 2020, when Peter George Remfrey's Queensland-based workforce company Pandanus Group announced a new partnership, he was introduced as "a proud Tiwi man of non-Indigenous descent".

Reece Harley Reece Harley Oct 15, 2025
Supply Nation reports almost $6 billion spent last financial year with Indigenous businesses

Supply Nation has announced that its members have spent almost $6 billion with Indigenous businesses in the last financial year. In the financial year 2024-25, Supply Nation facilitated $5.

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Brendan Foster Oct 15, 2025
Indigenous chambers unite to chart a community-led path for business certification

On a brisk August morning last week in Sydney, the energy at the International Convention Centre was palpable. Indigenous business leaders and representatives from some of Australia's largest corporat...

Reece Harley Reece Harley Aug 26, 2025
McCarthy: Government ‘deeply committed’ to First Nations economic empowerment

Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy says the government is "deeply committed" to working with Indigenous people to support economic empowerment and self-determination.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 20, 2025
Exclusive: Certified UK records contradict CEO’s Indigenous identity claim as Supply Nation maintains certification

Certified UK birth and migration records obtained by the National Indigenous Times raise serious doubts about a South Australian business leader's public claim to Aboriginal identity.

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David Prestipino Aug 14, 2025
Exclusive: Supply Nation accused of censorship, 'toxic' culture

One of Australia's largest Indigenous business certifiers is facing allegations of censorship and internal bullying. Supply Nation is described by the federal government as the nation's "leading datab...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 14, 2025
Weapons firms in, Indigenous voices out at Supply Nation Roundtable

Supply Nation's decision to not include any Indigenous-owned businesses while inviting weapons manufacturers and the Department of Defence to its newly reconvened Leadership Roundtable has drawn sharp...

"The key focus is tangible progress": Woolworths' Adam Bray on being a dual Supply Nation finalist

Woolworths Group general manager of social impact, Adam Bray, is a finalist in two categories of the 2025 Supply Nation Awards. The first is in the 'Corporate Member of the Year' category, which recog...

Mob Jobs celebrates Supply Nation Supplier Diversity Awards nomination

Mob Jobs managing director Sara Stuart spoke with the Indigenous Business Review this week about her company's recent nomination in the Supply Nation 2025 Supplier Diversity Awards.

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Aug 4, 2025
Telstra sponsors Certified Supplier of the Year category at 2025 Supply Nation awards

Telstra has returned as a sponsor for the 2025 Supplier Diversity Awards, demonstrating its ongoing support for First Nations excellence in business.

Jadah Pleiter recognised as Indigenous Businesswoman of the Year finalist

Palyku woman Jadah Pleiter has been named as a finalist for Indigenous Businesswoman of the Year at Supply Nation's 2025 Supplier Diversity Awards.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jul 8, 2025
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