We are again excited to be part of Indigenous Business Month. Celebrating the 10th birthday, this year’s theme is fittingly Making Our Mark.
Indigenous Business Month is a collective movement that celebrates and showcases the diversity and excellence of Indigenous business across Australia. In its 10th year, we mark a decade of demonstrating the impact of Indigenous businesses and call upon the Indigenous business sector to reflect on how we have MADE OUR MARK.
Indigenous businesses take on a life of their own, asserting their mark through their goods and services, by bringing Indigenous ways of working into the business ecosystem. Indigenous businesses are vehicles of self-determination, created by Indigenous business leaders, making our mark for what Indigenous business excellence is all about.
We know, as our longest living culture demonstrates, that 10 years is but a small corner within a larger, continuing tapestry of doing business in this Country. Yet over the last three decades the Indigenous business sector has grown, has flourished and is brightly adding to our collective story.
Over the past decade of promoting the distinction of Indigenous Businesses, we have seen how Indigenous entrepreneurs have continually contributed to better communities, better opportunities, better relationships, and better ways of doing business.
In 2024, we pause to consider our collective achievements and impact. This year it is time to mark out those stories, those business models, those ideas that reveal our way of doing business. This year we invite Indigenous business owners across the country to share how they make their mark – in and through their business and leadership.
This year, we invite our nations to consider the wave of Indigenous entrepreneurship across the country, redefining what Indigenous business is all about by showcasing what we know as excellence. This year, we invite First Nations businesses and their allies to tell the stories and celebrate our ways of doing business.
We are excited about the theme, but know that we will be very busy in August and September.
Indigenous Business Month is one of those amazing community-led initiatives where having an idea + build a small team = make it happen.
Bring on October!
