Tag: Indigenous

The local network of the UN Global Compact, the Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA), today launched The Australian Business Guide to Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, written in collaboration with KPMG Australia and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).  Designed to complement the global business reference guide for the United […]

Applications for Australia’s first Angel Investors and Entrepreneur Masterclass pilot program are now open. The WA Government, Generation One and Perth Angels have teamed up to fund a new pilot program to boost investment into Indigenous entrepreneurs and start-ups. Applications for the pilot program opened on the 15 October and close on the 29 October […]

First Nations entrepreneurs can now apply for the Barayamal accelerator programme and access $50,000 in grant funding. After running the world’s first Indigenous Accelerator in November 2016, Barayamal is now running its second accelerator program in Victoria on the 7th September 2020 – thanks to LaunchVic.  Barayamal believes that First Nations Entrepreneurship can change the […]

A national accelerator program geared towards indigenous entrepreneurs has helped nine startups become viable commercial enterprises.    Run by early stage investment group Investible, the inaugural Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) accelerator saw participating entrepreneurs gain insights and experience from a line-up of startup founders, mentors and investors over eight weeks. In total, entrepreneurs were introduced […]

Even the toughest of business people are taking their hats off to the Tiwi Islanders nowadays. Only seven years ago, the islanders committed themselves to resurrecting an abandoned acacia plantation business on their homeland. They had no money, no trained forestry staff, no port suitable for woodchip and no export market. Tiwi sought and received expert […]

Holistic community health enterprise, Western Desert, has been announced the winner of the inaugural Ethical Enterprise Award 2013.

Enabling access to start-up capital for Indigenous entrepreneurs in Western NSW may sound like a fairly niche target for a large bank, but for National Australia Bank’s (NAB) Community Finance and Development team, it is core business.