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Indigenous Business Perspectives series | RMIT University 2021

Join us and hear from Indigenous business leaders and industry experts about how your business can become a more inclusive organisation.

In this 3-part series, the RMIT College of Business and Law is discussing the impact of Indigenous perspectives and share some top-tips on how Australian business owners can increase their performance by Including indigenous perspectives.

Webinar 1
This panel discussion provides you with insights from indigenous business leaders who explain the value indigenous business perspectives add to business growth and how they can be utilised to create better outcomes.
Webinar 2
This webinar considers how business practices of reconciliation can enrich and add value to Australian businesses, and what steps business leaders can take to initiate and map out a reconciliation journey.
Webinar 3
The final webinar of this series provides top-tips from senior indigenous executives, who delve into the policy realm and discuss the current organisational structures that are shaping businesses today.

Tools and support for Australian small businesses

Aboriginal Business Victoria
Tools and resources to support Aboriginal businesses.
Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
Aims to educate, inform and assist small business operators, to understand their rights and responsibilities under the Trade Practices Act.
Australian Government: Business
Access to all the government information, forms and services you need to plan, start and grow your business.
Australian Government: Starting an Indigenous business
Support and assistance to start and run an Indigenous business.
Australian Taxation Office
Information about tax for individuals, businesses or professionals. Includes detailed discussion of tax law, rulings, guidelines and ABN essentials.
Australian Trade and Investment Commission
For information about export markets, opportunities, services, grants and more.
Business Victoria
Provides a wealth of information to assist with starting and developing a business.
Indigenous Business Australia (IBA)
Programs and information that provides ATSI people with financial opportunities and support, including owning their own business.
Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations
Supports and regulates the corporations that are incorporated under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006.
Supply Nation
Brings a wide range of corporate and government organisations together with Indigenous businesses to facilitate relationships and commercial opportunities.

Business plans

How to write a business plan (like a pro)
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) - Planning for business
This document demonstrates how ABS statistics can be used to assist small businesses in making informed decisions.
Australian Government: Business plan tools and templates
Develop and write your business and marketing plan using the free templates.
Bplans
Business plan tools and templates to help get you started.
Business Victoria: Business plans
Use the free business planning tools.

The potential of small business for Indigenous Australians

Awakening the 'sleeping giant': The hidden potential of indigenous businesses
in Policy: A Journal of Public Policy and Ideas. Volume 32, Issue 1 (Autumn 2016).
Indigenous and Ethnic Entrepreneurship: A Cultural Perspective
in Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management in the Hospitality Industry (2008).
Indigenous entrepreneurship in timber furniture manufacturing: The Gumatj venture in Northern Australia
in Information Management and Business Review, volume 2, issue 1 (2011).
Indigenous culture and entrepreneurship in small businesses in Australia
in Small Enterprise Research (March 2017).

Small business journals

Below are some key Small Business Management journal titles.

Most of these titles are peer reviewed and considered scholarly and authoritative sources of information.

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International Small Business Journal
Peer reviewed
Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
Peer reviewed
Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Peer reviewed
Journal of Small Business Management
Peer reviewed
Small Business Economics
Peer reviewed
Small Business Economic Trends
Trade journal

Library subject guides

Entrepreneurship

Featured resources

Tools and support for Australian small businesses

Business plans

The potential of small business for Indigenous Australians

Small business journals