1.  Bring together a wide ranges of expertise to assist with the development of businesses owned

and operated by indigenous people and develop new indigenous businesses;

2.  Create a sustainable and self-funded organisation assisting indigenous people into small businesses

and employing other indigenous people; and

3.  Undertake the role of a national indigenous business development think tank and peak body.

4.  Work with registered training organisations (RTOs) and other educational organisations in

partnership with mainstream business to deliver skills development and practical nationally

recognised training for indigenous business people.

5. For these training programs to result in real and ongoing employment opportunities.

The multiplier effect of indigenous small business will not only assist employment but will also lead

to other social benefits for the indigenous community and to attract major corporations to invest in

infrastructure for the indigenous business community.

IBC subscribes to the theory that practical economic empowerment and economic development for

indigenous people is a process to achieve independence from the welfare sector and the capacity to

make life choices, consistent with the process of practical reconciliation and in line with the benefits

that are already enjoyed by mainstream Australia.

It is through this framework and from the existing solid base, that the IBC seeks to enhance and improve

the already important work that has been done towards practical reconciliation and the restoration of

self-esteem in indigenous communities through practical, long term sustainable commercially viable

ventures and through those ventures self employment.