All employers establish strategies for employing and training more Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders. Banks and other financial institutions actively adopt culturally-responsive banking and financing regimes and facilitate better access to capital. Governments increase the value of Indigenous assets by legislating for Indigenous intellectual property and cultural rights and by working in partnership with Indigenous communities to protect biodiversity and rehabilitate and sustain lands and waters under the control of those communities. Priority should be given to developing commercial activities on Indigenous-owned land. Private-sector organisations seek opportunities for joint ventures with Indigenous businesses.
Governments promote such joint ventures.
Governments and industry work in partnership with Indigenous communities to ensure their projects strengthen Indigenous communities by supporting the local economy and enhancing regional employment opportunities. TAFEs and other vocational education providers target their programs to the employment opportunities in the local labour market, aiming for available jobs or business opportunities on the completion of training programs and schemes. With local community involvement, education providers, banks and other financial institutions develop money-management programs that increase the capacity of people to plan, save and invest in their future. Indigenous leaders actively encourage their people to equip themselves with the skills, knowledge and experiences that are valued in the local employment market.