Evening News: 'Raising the bar': Big businesses pledge $3 billion to help Indigenous companies grow

The Business Council of Australia is launching a new program which pledges to buy $3 billion in supplies from Indigenous companies.

Source: AAP

Some of Australia's biggest businesses have banded together to spend more than $3 billion in the next five years helping Indigenous businesses grow.

Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott said the "Raising the Bar" initiative - a collaboration between its members and Indigenous supplier diversity organisation Supply Nation - is "game-changing".

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