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“There’s a disbenefit in taking an untrained indigenous person on, with noprocess to train them because what effectively you’re getting is 50% or lessproductivity.”However, he also noted that the costs from the lower in productivity can be reducedthrough training:“Whereas on the … thing, there’s the benefit of saying if I can get these guystrained up, particularly if I factored in some loss of productivity because Iknow these guys are really green and I can overcome that and actually getsome productivity, then there’s a benefit.”The attitude of head contractors and/or subcontractors to the employment ofindigenous workers was identified by a representative from Construction SkillsQueensland as a further factor affecting the costs (and benefits) of the policy. This isreflected in the following exchange with the interviewer:Representative: “You had people coming in who were contractors and paying20% lip-service to the 20% and sitting them under a tree.”Interviewer:“So not actually doing any training, just employing them butnot actually doing anything?”Representative: “That’s it yeah. And that didn’t work either. They said “wellthey wouldn’t come back after the second week, and I said“well, if you were sitting under a tree for two weeks wouldyou come back?”The willingness of indigenous communities to participate in the policy also appears,from our transcript evidence, to affect the policy’s costs. It appears that somecommunities are very willing to participate whilst others have been less thanenthusiastic. One interviewee noted that the costs involved in coordinating resourcesand indigenous labour were high in communities that were less than enthusiasticabout the policy.As was the case for the 10% Training Policy, there appears to be little in the way ofquantitative measures of the benefits of the Indigenous Employment Policy. Most of85
the participants in our study supported the policy’s aims but few were able to point totangible benefits. Concerns were also raised about the possible transient nature of theemployment and training opportunities created by the policy.The sponsoring agency: The Department of Employment and Industrial RelationsThe policy officer that we interviewed at DEIR attributed the lack of data on thepolicy effects to the lack of resources initially allocated to the policy. The Departmentwas thus only able to provide information of job creation for the first half of 2006(although the policy has been in place since 2000), and it was only able to identifyimmediate, as opposed to on-going, employment benefits. In a personalcommunication, the policy officer stated that:“Available data from January 2006 to 30 June 2006 indicates that 410 jobswere created through the IEP (20% Policy) on 23 building constructionprojects and 43 civil construction projects. It is expected that this figurewould be higher if all agencies strengthened the reporting complianceobligations in their contracts with successful tenderers.”“I can’t really give statistics and data on the long term employment outcomes;I don’t capture that and it’s very hard to get someone to even report on thatbut I can see people are being utilised and from anecdotal stuff I can startseeing some capacity building and enterprises being used at the end of the dayand some entrepreneurial stuff happening slowly.”A contracting agency: The Department of Public WorksThe problem of lack of evidence/reporting on the policy’s impact was also highlightedby the key policy officer we interviewed in the Department of Public Works:“I think because of its lack of reporting, it is very difficult to say how effectiveit’s been.”Head Contractors and Subcontractors86
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Table of ContentsBackground .......
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FiguresFigure 1: Total, Private, an
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stakeholders involved in constructi
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Project Objectives & ScopeThe prima
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the review first identified the ‘
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Social Policies Leveraged on Public
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construction contracts that fall un
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employ Aboriginal people, that supp
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projects to address skills shortage
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ecruited from the local community.
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The contracting or delivering agenc
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Literature ReviewEconomic Perspecti
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innovations. These negotiations are
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investments in general skills); and
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Keeping this in mind, the following
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previous section, this research app
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Theoretical FrameworkThe theoretica
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artwork and project management. Acc
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Moreover, according to the Intervie
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Benefits of the Art Built-in policy
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Public art can enrich public cultur
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The artwork is able to increase pub
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potential. Also according to Client
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Multilayered artwork is able to be
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not be updated, as the artwork is a
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A number of benefits from the Art B
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administration and project manageme
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Those elements which were expected
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Globerman and Vining (1996) propose
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Table: WA Percent for Art policy an
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Summary of comparative analysisFigu
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Appendix A: Summary of interviews f
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References“10% Training Policy”
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Hein, H. 1996. What is public art?:
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