The business case for our RAP is now well developed, and our partnership delivery
model has proven successful over the past four years.
Our refreshed RAP continues to build upon our learning through the challenges,
successes and failures since we released our first RAP in 2011. It ensures that what we
plan and do is closely aligned with Lendlease’s business strategy, and underscored by
Indigenous community needs and aspirations, community advice and endorsement,
and human rights.
We have learned that success takes time and commitment, and that impacting large
scale social change is neither simple nor linear. It takes collaboration and a collective
impact approach across many targeted areas to achieve meaningful and sustainable
lifestyles and careers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and a flourishing
Indigenous business sector. We continue to work on challenges we faced when
implementing our first RAP. This RAP will redouble our efforts to embed the systems
and processes to report more accurate data on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
employee numbers, numbers of employees who have undertaken cultural awareness
and engagement training, and the spend with indigenous businesses.
Lendlease aims to create and manage ‘places’ and the infrastructure, services and
industries that connect and support these places. As a proud Wiradjuri woman I, like
many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, believe a ‘place’ owns the people,
a place has history, family connection, purpose and meaning and spirituality that
nurtures the people.
Our RAP aims to bring these two concepts together to recognise, respect and
celebrate the fact that we build, work, live, learn and play on Aboriginal lands, on
sacred places, where ancient and modern cultures can come together to create a
community where all people can thrive, feel safe and create value.
A MESSAGE FROM CATH BROKENBOROUGH,
EXECUTIVE LEAD, INDIGENOUS ENGAGEMENT AND RAP, LENDLEASE
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CATH BROKENBOROUGH (FAR LEFT) WITH STUDENTS ON
THE YALARI YEAR 9 GIRLS OUTBACK LEADERSHIP CAMP.
CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, JUNE 2015.
