Indigenous academic Marcia
Langton has called on Australian governments to learn from Western Australian
mining companies in implementing Indigenous procurement policies.
Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda has argued a
human rights-based approach to business is needed to address power imbalances
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
When an oil and gas company in West Perth starts renaming its boardrooms
in honour of the Noongar people who first occupied the area, you realise
something's shifted.
As we know from
popular movies like The Social Network,
entrepreneurs embrace certain personality characteristics: curiosity,
confidence and a propensity to take risks.
"For Aboriginal people
to be active participants in the design of both their current and future
worlds, the first shift is one of economics. Money is quite simply a ‘unit of
change'. The more money in the hands of Aboriginal people and communities, the
more opportunity there is for change to happen." - The Cultural Connection Code
