Only economic development can lift people out of poverty and disadvantage. The good news is economic opportunities are opening up for Indigenous people like never before. [Read more…]
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Welfare is state sponsored disadvantage
Everyone who depends on welfare is living in poverty. Poverty isn’t alleviated by giving people money. Poverty is alleviated by people making money; by economic development driven by jobs, education and innovation.
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Posted by on September 5, 2016
Indigenous Accountants crucial for Indigenous futures
To build prosperity from the assets we’ve fought hard to obtain, our communities need people with financial expertise, who know how to manage, sustain and build wealth. We need accountants just as much as lawyers and doctors, if not more. [Read more…]
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Posted by on May 17, 2016
Closing the Gap – It’s the economy, stupid
We need an economic strategy for Indigenous people built around an educated workforce, employment in real jobs & small business entrepreneurialism. Not around welfare & government dependency. [Read more…]
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Posted by on February 10, 2016
Culture and modernity: Learnings from Korea
South Korea celebrates Korean culture side by side with modernity and has acculturated Western norms into its own. Colonised peoples, too, can modernise and adapt. Our cultures, too, can embrace the best of both worlds. [Read more…]
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Posted by on December 3, 2015
Flesh and Blood: Prosperity in a post-colonial world
If colonised peoples don’t participate in the modern economy; if we don’t take the best of what the world has to offer and make it part of our own way of doing things, we risk our survival as peoples.
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Posted by on November 17, 2015
Privately owned, profit making enterprises the key to economic development
Indigenous procurement parity can spearhead a move from not-for profit, centrally controlled economies to individually owned, for-profit ventures. [Read more…]
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Posted by on November 9, 2015
Strong Spirits – safe communities and economic development
Bess Price speaks on family violence, safe communities and making better economic use of Indigenous lands.
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Posted by on October 27, 2015