Three Western Australian businesses have been recognised in the Prime Minister’s Awards for community business partnerships, recognising an outstanding contribution to the community.
WA’s winner of the large business award was the 12 year old partnership between Freehills and Sussex Street Community Law Service for providing legal services for socially disadvantaged members of the community.
The partnership has developed from only a few hundred people accessing the service in 1991 to more than 4,000 people in 2003.
The medium business award winner was won by Jacobs Sverdrup Australia in partnership with the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council and other partners for the successful development of an economic development strategy and a set of ‘nation building’ plans for the Noongar people of South West Australia.
The small business award winning partnership was between the Virtual Cancer Centre.Com Pty Ltd and Silver Chain Nursing for their development of an online system designed to improve communications between health professionals relating to patient care.