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Linc and Bennett Walker: Reconciling Traditional Conservation and the Mainstream |
Reconciling Indigenous conservation practices with the mainstream: In a paper released (29 March 2010) Karanda (Bennett Walker) discusses the way in which the traditional families of the Daintree region are working to ensure turtle and dugong populations are kept strong and in balance. Please download and read this important paper.
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Meat and Potatoes Business IT Package
The ISX offers a high value IT business package to any Aboriginal business that lists on the ISX trading floor. The package includes:
a) Online services and server storage for $150 per annum which is about half the market rate
b) free website software - configured and installed
c) free blog software - configured and installed
c) email based marketing and client support system
d) Fax to email and email to fax service available at a discounted price plus access to a range of IT professionals who offer the best business software and solutions available to small, medium and large businesses.
The total value is hundreds of dollars a year. So if you want to list your business on Australia's most popular Indigenous business website and have your own website. Just make a listing and then contact the ISX voluntary secretary Peter Botsman at info@isx.org.au so we can ensure that you receive prompt service.
Meat and Potatoes IT is proudly supported by alpha.net.au
New on the Trading Floor
Patrick Dodson, one of Australia's foremost Indigenous leaders, and winner of the 2008 Sydney Peace Prize says this about the ISX: "I want to commend the ISX to Indigenous communities and corporate Australia." Click to hear and see Patrick Dodson on video webcast
The Indigenous Stock Exchange (ISX) website is a free market for listing Indigenous business ideas, products, investment opportunities and people. The website gets between 200,000 and 500,000 hits per month. It is a self-directed feast of Australian Indigenous creativity and development. We make no promises or assurances to those who use the site, nor to those who chose to invest in Indigenous businesses or buy Indigenous business products. What we do promise is an open, pre-eminent showcase of Australian Indigenous business, products and opportunities and a strong public stage for introducing ideas and opportunities to an Australian and international audience that includes investors, ethical investors and ordinary people willing to make contributions to support Indigenous initiatives. Follow these links to become involved: List an Investment Opportunity or Enterprise; Market Yourself and Your Services; List an Indigenous Product or Service; Post an Indigenous Job or Opportunity Link to Important Indigenous Resources & Organisations.
Events
Canning Stock Route Story 30 July 2010 - 26 January 2011
We wanna tell you fellas 'bout things been happening in the past that hasn't been recorded, what old people had in their head. No pencil and paper. The white man history has been told and it's today in the book. But our history is not there properly. We've got to tell 'em through our paintings.
Clifford Brooks, Wiluna, 2007 [Read more]
Desert Stories 12 August 2010 - 28 August 2010
This exhibition celebrates the evolution of a new generation of artists living and working at Papunya in the Tanami Desert. This selection of paintings are vibrant, contemporary renditions by Indigenous artists, of the stories that continue to shape their understanding of their ancestral desert country. [Read more]
Linking Indigenous Policy with Service Delivery 2010 14 September 2010 - 15 September 2010
14th & 15th September 2010, [Read more]
Mossman Rocks - Music and Dance Event 22 October 2010
Performances by deadly local performers including the Briscoe Sisters, Bana Kiway Kiway, the Wujal Band and many others. Not to be missed [Read more]
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