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The ISX would like to express our sincere regret and pass on our condolences to the family of the woman who we can only describe as a most beautiful Ngarrindjeri Queen who touched the hearts of all who heard her songs and saw her perform. Her spirit lives on!

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Gary Dhurrkay Academy Recently Listed on the ISX Trading Floor
Gary Dhurrkay Academy Recently Listed on the ISX Trading Floor
The ISX trading floor is a moving feast. Aboriginal social, cultural and for-profit enterprises searching for investment, support and/or management expertise post their listings and retract them as their needs are met. Rather than remaining hidden or lost in a "philanthropic, government or business investment filing cabinet" the trading floor is a here and now network of Aboriginal aspirations, ideas and practical needs seeking fulfilment.

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Latest Enterprises

ChewYings Lawn and Horticulture
Chewyings is developing an online system that helps welfare recipients move into mainstream work. Over the last 15 years we have developed a non funded model that provides opportunities for the unemployed. [ Read more ]
Lead organisation: Chewyings

Gayili Marika Yunupingu's Dream
Gayili Marika Yunupingu is one of the senior women leaders of Arnhem Land. Over many years she has been involved in everything from cultural tourism, women's night patrol, arts and crafts to teaching and education. For seven and a half years Gayili has begged and borrowed vehicles to support her arts and crafts business and to take other women and children into the bush for hunting and food gathering. With her own vehicle (a troop carrier with roof racks) nothing would stop Gayili's enterprise from going forward. [ Read more ]
Lead organisation: Gumatj Clan

Palm Island Sponges Aquaculture project
The Palm Island Sponges Aquaculture Project presents the opportunity to establish a new enterprise on Palm Island that will grow and market 488,000 sea sponges per year for domestic and international cosmetic or “bath” sponge markets, generating 34 FTE positions (by Year 7) on Palm Island. [ Read more ]
Lead organisation: Coolgaree CDEP

Anderleigh Quarry Pty Ltd Indigenous Employment Development Initiative
Team Work makes the Dream Work! Anderleigh Quarry - "Working with small groups building trust, loyalty, respect and improved life skills to engage mainstream learning and work." [ Read more ]
Lead organisation: Gubi Gubi

Valery's Southern Cross Family Car Service
The idea of Valery’s Southern Cross family car service is an innovative solution to the high costs of transport for an extended Aboriginal family in Nhulunbuy. [ Read more ]
Lead organisation: Galpu Clan Wallaby Beach Nhulunbuy

Australian Communcation Network Representative
Registered ABN Holder / Sole Trader / ACN -Telecommunications provider. [ Read more ]
Lead organisation: Active Regional Representative for Bunbury / WA / 6230

Indigenous actor needed for Shakespeare-by-the-river
The Acting Factory Inc. is searching for an indigenous ' Puck' in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' for Feb/March 2010 outdoor season by the Nepean River. [ Read more ]
Lead organisation: The Acting Factory Inc.

Walkabout Cultural Adventures
Unique Aboriginal Tour Company offering personalised experiences in the Mossman/ Daintree region with local Kuku Yalanji guide. [ Read more ]
Lead organisation: Kuku Yalanji

Arnhem Human Enterprise Development (AHED)
Facilitators are available to help motivated individuals be successful at enterprises. They use local language to educate around knowledge gaps and provide human and material resources to overcome barriers. The service gives people the opportunity to succeed in ventures they are passionate about, and to maintain control of their endeavour. [ Read more ]
Lead organisation: Project run by Why Warriors pty ltd, ARDS and ALPA

Camel Culling Based Enterprise
An Australian mobile abattoir owner and operator is seeking other equity partners to develop this billion dollar camel products supply industry in Australia. [ Read more ]
Lead organisation: The Australian Wild Meat Company

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More Information on the Trading Floor

Often an indirect result of listing on the trading floor is that Aboriginal enterprises who had not previously known of each others existence, themselves start to network to achieve mutally beneficial results.

The ISX website and trading floor regularly attains over 200,000 hits each month. Since 2000 there have been over 5,000 projects and enterprises listed on the ISX trading floor. 90 per cent of these projects and businesses have received free listings.

At the very least listing on the ISX provides Aboriginal businesses with a highly visible web presence and exposes them to the eyes of many interested parties. Not everyone gets what they want, but most everyone gets what they need from an ISX listing.

Poorly thought out listings are unlikely to attract financial support. But even first time businesses regularly receive a helping hand by listing on the ISX trading floor. The discipline of listening to investors demands and hearing about their requirements is often a major learning experience. Often businesses do not or cannot take up offers of support because they want to remain completely independent. In other cases new partnerships and alliances have been formed.

In most cases the process of developing clear guidelines for investment and support takes years rather than weeks. The trading floor is there for this long term duration, listings are adapted and shaped along with the development of the business. There is no fee to post your own listing. However if you seek support in posting or changing a listing we charge a minimum of $100.

The ISX is able to keep costs very low because of volunteers and sponsors of our website. After experimenting with videolink and community trading floors it was recognised that the while the results were outstanding a lower cost model for supporting Aboriginal businesses was needed. This is how our web based strategy evolved.

The entire ISX operation is basically a not for profit organisation which seeks to cover the expenses of volunteers who do all the behind the scenes work at the ISX. The ISX prides itself on its low overheads as well as ensuring that there is a direct relationship between investors and supporters and Aboriginal businesses. There are no middle men or team of experts who skim off payments at any part of the process. Our goal is to be a direct communication link that gets the word to the national and international social and for profit investment community about the outstanding Aboriginal people and businesses that abound in Australia .

The BAMA ISX is not a financial market and does not sell or trade financial products of any kind.

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