I wonder if this initiatiative was influenced by this Lend Lease...

I wonder if this initiatiative was influenced by this Lend Lease project:

Eight Indigenous-owned businesses have signed Memorandums of Understanding with Lendlease during NAIDOC Week, indicating their agreement to participate in our Gymea Indigenous Supplier Diversity Program.

The program aims to provide long-term support for small to medium Indigenous businesses, enabling them to significantly “scale and stretch” their operations over a five-year period.

The Gymea program has been developed to support the emerging voice of Indigenous businesses who are driving a business culture that promotes equality, flexibility, wellness and respect of land and environment. Lendlease will work with selected suppliers beyond project to project contract relationships, to develop longer-term partnerships that will drive social and economic outcomes for them and the wider community.

The program also aligns with the intent of the Federal Government’s Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP) and with Supply Nation (Indigenous supplier directory) and forms a core pillar of Lendlease’s updated Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan, released in November 2016. Lendlease is one of only 20 companies to achieve this level of plan development and the Gymea program is a leader in the Indigenous supplier diversity space.

https://www.lendlease.com/articles/2017/07/05/01/16/20170705-the-gymea-project/