MAKING FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES STRONG THOUGH SMALL BUSINESS

Making Families and Communities Strong Through Small Business Mara West, Honours Thesis, Murdoch University, 2007Not being part of big business so don’thave the luxury of having the use ofanother truck.3. Question: What support did you receive from service providers such as ATSIC, IBA, DIA, DLGRD etc?CS 1It’s taken time to establish support from A lot of Aboriginal people Both highlighted thethe Gascoyne Shire and Local are disadvantaged when difficulties of dealing withGovernment and since then the Shirehas bent over backwards to keep meoperating. This benefits them and me asthey can apply for funding and its in theirdealing with governmentdue to their elongatedprocesses for approvalfor funding.governmentGovernment need to takea more holistic approachto supporting Indigenousbest interest to support Indigenous If funded through the businesses. This wasbusiness.government, it seems one of theI get no support from the CarnarvonShire even though they know about mythat’s the only role itwants to play in therecommendations madeby Miller (p 307) andoperations and I have my office based in operations of the again in the RCIADIC (pCarnarvon.business843)After eight years of operating arepresentative from the IBA which tookover the enterprise operations followingthe demise of ATSIC, through whom theinitial funding was allocated, arepresentative of IBA finally visited. Tomeet someone from the funding body inperson and talk personally about theoperations of the business was asurprise and now means there is a “real”person I can contact in IBA.Government need to takea more holistic approachto supporting Indigenousbusiness and ensurebusinesses aresupported in everypossible wayCS 2Advice was provided by ATSIC andgiven paperwork but the process wastoo long so had no alternative but toseek funding elsewhere to takeadvantage of purchasing the truck.Sought funding through AGC, paperwork47