1.  Bring together a wide ranges of expertise to assist with the development of businesses owned and operated by indigenous people and develop new indigenous businesses;

2.  Encourage the development of the CDEP beyond work-for-the-dole;

3.  Create a sustainable and self funding organisation assisting indigenous people into small businesses and employing other indigenous people; and

4.  Undertake the role of a national indigenous business development think tank and peak body.

5.  Work with registered training organisations (RTOs) in partnership with mainstream business to deliver skills development and practical nationally recognised training for indigenous business people.

The “multiplier effect” of indigenous small business will not only assist employment but will also lead to other social benefits for the indigenous community and to attract major corporations to invest in infrastructure for the indigenous business community.

IBC subscribes to the theory that practical economic empowerment and economic development for indigenous people is a process to achieve independence from the welfare sector and the capacity to make life choices, consistent with the process of practical reconciliation and in line with the benefits that are already enjoyed by mainstream Australia.

It is through this framework and from the existing solid base, that the IBC seeks to enhance and improve the already important work that has been done towards practical reconciliation and the restoration of self-esteem in indigenous communities through practical, long term sustainable commercially viable ventures and through those ventures self employment.