MAKING FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES STRONG THOUGH SMALL BUSINESS

Making Families and Communities Strong Through Small Business Mara West, Honours Thesis, Murdoch University, 2007NHMRC Values and Ethics: Guidelines for EthicalConduct in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HealthResearch and the Murdoch University policy on Ethics inResearch Involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanderpeople.Step 4.Step 5.Step 6.Step 7.Develop questionnaire for case studies.To ensure the uniformity of my data collected from mycase studies I developed a generic questionnaire that Ithen adapted for each case study. There were nineteenquestions which were based on the questions that wereproposed for this thesis. Responses from the casestudies has provided me with valuable information thathighlights the positive and negative aspects of Aboriginalpeople in business in remote areas which is probably nodifferent to those businesses of non-Aboriginal peoplehowever, there are programs that have been set upspecifically to assist Indigenous businesses and yet itseems these businesses continue to lack the support ofservice providers.Analysis of literature reviewThe literature reviewed for this thesis explored policiesand programs developed for Indigenous peoplespecifically those whose outcomes are to improve thesituation of Indigenous people in education, training andemployment.Analysis of case studiesThe two case studies presented in this thesis presents a‘human face’ to Aboriginal business. They give a veryclear picture of the positives and negatives of operatingbusinesses in remote locations. While one is a soleoperator, the other is a family operated business howeverboth have identified the problems with dealing withgovernment as opposed to dealing with the private sector.Collate data into thesisThe data collected as part of the literature review and thecase studies have been incorporated and developed intothis thesis which by its very nature is limited by its scopeand requires perhaps a PhD to explore more fully thisimportant area.28