Living Black investigates the impact black cladding is having on First Nations businesses.
Imagine opening a letter from the Australian Taxation Office, and finding a demand for more than $700,000 dollars. “I felt my whole world had really fallen apart when I read it. I was in shock. It was just instant stress," said Melbourne electrician Koolyn Briggs. Mr Briggs endured six months of stress because he had been registered as a director of the Indigenous arm of an electrical contracting business.
Kieran Hynes a professor of cyber security at the University of Canberra says, ‘black cladding’ is nothing more than “fraud”. Hynes heads up Willyama Services, a 100% Aboriginal owned technology company which gets much of its work through government contracts. “I'm an ex-army officer.
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