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Local businesses should get preferential treatment when bidding for government contracts, NSW’s peak union body will tell a parliamentary inquiry.
Unions NSW will argue thousands of jobs have been taken off-shore and then met with higher costs and lower quality, with governments prioritising short-term financial gain over the long-term benefits that keeping contracts local can bring.
They are set to give evidence at an inquiry into the government’s procurement practices and what impact they are having on social development in NSW.
Among a string of recommendations, Unions NSW says the government should be forced to spend at least half its contracting budget on local firms.
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