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Speaker 1: Joining me in the studio are very well known Territorian

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Speaker 1: and he is now the manager of Members and Services

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Speaker 1: with the Anti Indigenous Business Network's name's Stephen card Owner.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Good morning Katie, and good morning listeners.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to have you in the studio now. Mate, you're

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Speaker 1: back with me or you're with the Anti Indigenous Business

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Speaker 1: Network looking after the manager, or you're the manager of

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Speaker 1: Members and Services. And you've got some really great events

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Speaker 1: coming up tomorrow morning, Black Coffee. What's it all about?

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Speaker 2: Black Coffee? So it's about us joining our members together,

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Speaker 2: So our Aboriginal businesses and our supporting businesses as well

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Speaker 2: come together and we do a likely little coffee event

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Speaker 2: where we give an update of what's coming on with

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Speaker 2: the NTIBN this year.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: It's also to introduce our NTIBN board tomorrow. We also

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Speaker 2: got the Aboriginal Investment Anti guys coming in to talk

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Speaker 2: to our members about up and coming grants round that's

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Speaker 2: coming up. So the Black Coffee is just us network

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Speaker 2: in creating those opportunities for Aboriginal businesses in the.

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Speaker 1: Nt and we've got some phenomenal Aboriginal businesses in the

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Speaker 1: Northern territory diet.

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Speaker 2: Weay, we sure do. We've got some big businesses in

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Speaker 2: the NT and we've got new ones coming up as well,

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Speaker 2: so I do a lot of work with our new starters.

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Speaker 2: At the moment, we've got over four hundred certified Aboriginal

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Speaker 2: businesses on our membership base, and those Aboriginal businesses are

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Speaker 2: fifty one percent owned or more by an Aboriginal shareholder.

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Speaker 1: How much has that grown over recent years?

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Speaker 2: So I was back there in twenty nineteen when we

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Speaker 2: closed fit As and then there was only like one

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy. Yeah, it's grown so much, and you know,

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Speaker 2: and this is because that the Commonwealth Government has come

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Speaker 2: to the party and has backed the NTIBN. And now

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Speaker 2: we've got a beautiful service hub, the ANTIBN Hub and

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Speaker 2: Development House, and it's where our businesses can come in

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Speaker 2: and we provide business services to them. So if any

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Speaker 2: of our members need help with finance, grant writing, business planning,

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Speaker 2: legal advice, they can come into there and we can

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Speaker 2: help them grow their business through those avenues.

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Speaker 1: And Steve, when you look at the fact that there's

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Speaker 1: now four hundred certified Aboriginal businesses in the NT, what

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Speaker 1: does that mean in terms of opportunities for Indigenous people

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: Ah, it's great opportunities. And those businesses that are striving

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Speaker 2: right now are starting to buy back black what we

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Speaker 2: call it, where they're employing own Indigenous businesses and other

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Speaker 2: Indigenous businesses to work on big projects as well. So

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Speaker 2: it's great and it keeps building because it's also inspiring

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Speaker 2: those that have been thinking about businesses start their businesses

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Speaker 2: as well. So it's the NTIBN is there for Aboriginal businesses,

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Speaker 2: but we also what we have is ally members as well,

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Speaker 2: and these are the businesses that come in that support

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Speaker 2: Aboriginal businesses, that may have big contracts with defense or

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Speaker 2: the government and they want to employee Aboriginal businesses, So

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Speaker 2: we have those in there as well.

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Speaker 1: And so tomorrow at the Black Coffee event, it's an

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Speaker 1: opportunity for everybody to sort of get together and find

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Speaker 1: out a bit more I'm assuming about what other people do.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's the kick off the twenty twenty five season,

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Speaker 2: the twenty two I'm being footed now, the business season.

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Speaker 2: So it's also to give our members and update what's

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Speaker 2: coming up. We've got a few huge events coming up

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Speaker 2: this year. You know as well. We've got the launch

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Speaker 2: and Ala Springs on Thursday night down there. I'll be

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Speaker 2: going down with our CEO and also in the coming

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Speaker 2: later on a year, we've got the Aboriginal Economic Development

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Speaker 2: Forum and then we've got the Black Business Awards. So

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Speaker 2: this is about us informing all our members and those

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Speaker 2: that support the membership base what's on this year. And

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Speaker 2: also it's just a simple thing. We're not just there

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Speaker 2: to give free coffee. We're there to provide business support

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Speaker 2: and for our businesses to swap cards with each other

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Speaker 2: to create that by Black thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and as you said, you know that even if

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Speaker 1: you're not an Indigenous business, if you want to come along,

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Speaker 1: if you're an ally, you're more than welcome. Yep.

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Speaker 2: This is open to anyone. You don't have to be

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Speaker 2: an member. It's open to anyone that wants to come in,

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Speaker 2: that's in that business area, that wants to engage Aboriginal businesses.

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Speaker 2: Please come in. We're at the Development House, seventy six Esplanade.

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Speaker 2: It starts on eight am tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Eight am tomorrow, will Steve. It's always lovely to catch

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Speaker 1: up with you and I love organizing an interview while

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Speaker 1: I'm out exercising. I was out for a run yesterday.

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Speaker 1: You're out doing the power wheel.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, isn't it how we do it in the territory.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly how do you You know when you want

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Speaker 1: something done, you ask a busy person when you're getting

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Speaker 1: things organized.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely well. You don't get with an email, so you're

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Speaker 2: well to do it when you're exercising because you get

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Speaker 2: a response straight away.

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Speaker 1: Exactly right, Steve, lovely to catch up mate. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for your time. Much appreciated.