Collaboration is the key
FOR disadvantaged groups like Indigenous Australians to better participate in the infrastructure and mining sectors, collaboration is needed at all levels. Often people from disadvantaged groups struggle to participate as businesses in plant intensive industries due to the cost of equipment to deliver their services, struggles with compliance requirements and technology, and not having a good network of contacts to help find business in the short term and to develop a pipeline of work in the long term. Horizontal directional drilling, civil construction and project management company Maxibor is working to stop this cycle of disadvantage, which has impacts on health, well-being, education and community, and is encouraging all stakeholders to support and help build up micro-businesses across the sector.…