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INDIGENOUS BASKETBALL AUSTRALIA LIMITED
The company continued operating in accordance with its objectives of empowering, assisting and supporting disadvantaged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, especially youths, to achieve better outcomes, improving their quality of life and empowering them across Australian communities. The entity’s strategy in achieving these objectives focuses on using basketball as the mechanism to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities enabling the delivery of a wide range of programs designed to achieve positive outcomes and overcome the many challenges and barriers they face in the current Australian society, economy, and sporting structures. The entity takes a communityled approach in the design and development of its programs with an emphasis on improving the education, employment, safety & wellbeing, culture and capabilities of indigenous communities across Australia by: 1) Promoting reconciliation, mutual respect and tolerance between groups of individuals by providing programs that establish a safe environment free of discrimination, criticism, judgement, and exclusion. 2) Programs that promote creating a sense of belonging within the wider community and serve as a platform to educate and address socioeconomic disadvantages. 3) Programs that provide opportunities targeted at healthy lifestyles, and through this, develop positive role models for disadvantaged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. 4) Provide programs that are free of charge to participants thus eliminating a major barrier to participation. 5) Drive community engagement and participation in the newly established IBA programs. 6) Provide skill development and accreditation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants. 7) Delivery of an Australian first Indigenous Community Basketball league (ICBL) across 8 regions in Australia. 8) Deliver culturally centered educational services to address critical wellbeing areas of concern for Indigenous Youth. 9) Deliver an Australian first National Indigenous Basketball Tournament.