Community Priorities for Business

Focus groups conducted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members identified the cultural competencies required for Business graduates. These are detailed below with links
for additional information.

1. Understanding the historical basis of current Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disadvantage in employment;
   • Unfinished business: Indigenous stolen wages 
   • Indigenous Populations as Disadvantaged Entrepreneurs in Australia and New Zealand 
2. Appreciating the need for targeted policy, programs and strategies to increase Aboriginal participation in the labour market;
   • Corporate initiatives in Indigenous employment:: The Australian Employment Covenant two years on 
   • The Australian Indigenous Minority Supplier Council (AIMSC) 
   • The Council of Australian Governments’(COAG) National Partnership Agreement for Indigenous Economic Participation 
3. Recognising the governance needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities;
   • Indigenous Governance Toolkit 
   • Evaluating Governance Effectiveness: A facilitated process with the Board of Yarnteen Corporation 
   • Indigenous Governance: The Harvard Project, Australian Aboriginal Organisations and Cultural Subsidiarity 

They further emphasised the need for the structural innovation that will:

• Include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices in curriculum;
  • Generation One - Inspirational Stories 
• Overturn stereotypes about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and organisations;
  • Face the Facts:Some Questions and Answers about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (2008)
  • Reconciliation Australia: Mythbusters 
• Create opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to gain qualifications and work experience.
  • Practical reconciliation and continuing disadvantage in Indigenous education 
  • Indigenous Cadetship Support
  • Indigenous Business Australia- Cadetship 
  • Indigenous Participation in University Education