Comparisons have been made to the marriage equality plebiscite: many knew someone gay, maybe wanting to be married, and so it was personal. But very few white Australians know an indigenous person as a friend. It’s not just numbers - people identifying as LGBTI has been estimated as high as 11%, but is usually accepted at a third of that – the same percentage as indigenous. There are so many other factors.
In his new book ‘Hoodie Economics’, Jack Manning Bancroft - founder and CEO of the mentoring program AIME- offers a mind-expanding economic philosophy based on Indigenous thinking and ideas from the margins, privileging relational economies instead of transactional ones. The book puts the ‘people in hoodies’ in the economics driver’s seat in lieu of the ‘people in suits’.
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Reluctant CEO Jack Manning Bancroft is winding down AIME, but first he has to raise funds – which is where an ambitious, sprawling three-day event comes in.
Company News: Cloud talent creation specialists Revolent Group team up with PwC’s Indigenous Consulting, AIME and Salesforce to provide new career opp.