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Only 66 out of 9,610 EMDG grants went to Aboriginal businesses: Is DFAT’s Indigenous Diplomacy Agenda serious?

Despite the Australian Government’s public commitments to empowering Indigenous communities through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s (DFAT) Indigenous Diplomacy Agenda, recent statistics reveal a troubling disconnect between rhetoric and reality. According to Austrade’s own reporting, out of a total of 9,610 successful applications across three funding rounds of the Export Market Development Grants […]