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Wiradjuri woman Tara Croker who launched startup Yaala Sparkling smiles at the camera while sitting indoors

"There's a lot of other businesses out there unfortunately in the black-cladding space using language or Indigenous artwork, or these flavours that are not coming from communities,"
she said.

Wiradjuri woman Tara Croker stands in a kitchen holding up a bottle of her product Yaala Sparkling

"We [had] the stolen wages … but what we're seeing now is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people doing well in the workplace, we're having good careers, but we don't have that generation to ask about money."
Phil Usher from First Nations Foundation stands outdoors in front of green shrubs

a wide view of a remote town in australia with a few houses in the distance

An image of a woman with grey hair and a black chefs jacket smiles outside, near an Indigenous artwork.

the outside of a community store featuring the indigenous flag

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