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LGBTIQA+ ownership in Australian procurement rests on the voluntary commitments first withdrawn in the United States

Several of the best known corporate supplier diversity programs in the United States were cut back within months of a change in the political climate, while obligations set in public policy took an executive order to undo. In Australia, LGBTIQA+ ownership does not appear in any Commonwealth or Victorian procurement policy we have reviewed, which leaves it in the more exposed position.