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West Kimberley Executive Visit group in Broome, 2015.

Photo: David Rennie

Catherine Hunter described how secondments

affect employee loyalty: ‘KPMG won the human

rights business award last year and I think it made

everyone in the firm really stand up and think about

what we do and feel enormously proud of what we

do, because it has become quite core—the Jawun

program in particular.’

Steph Stokes said her loyalty towards NAB was

cemented after completing a secondment in 2014.

‘There’s the sense of organisational pride. I try to

share with people that I am so proud to work for an

organisation that thinks this is really important and

invests in their people to give back.’ Trish Clancy

talked about the impact of the Jawun program on

both employee engagement and retention: ‘I have

a theory that we retain people who’ve been on a

Jawun secondment for longer. Our BCG alumni

who have been secondees are often closer to us,

it deepens that connection.’

Delivers corporate social responsibility

Community investment

Sustainable development

Bring RAP to life

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the

‘responsibility of an organisation for the impacts

of its decisions and activities on society and the

environment’.

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This responsibility is expressed

through behaviour that ‘contributes to sustainable

development, including the health and welfare of

society’.

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Jawun supports its secondment partners

to deliver on CSR by providing a framework to

effectively engage with and contribute to positive

outcomes for Indigenous communities. As

Anthony Roediger from BCG attested: ‘Jawun’s

brokering role dramatically raises the chances

of success and sustainability by providing the

mechanism for corporates to get involved with

Indigenous Australia.’

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