You are expected to select a real-life case to demonstrate and discuss the impact of a business investment on the indigenous communities, societies, and cultures.

Assessment 3 - Report (individual) - Worth: 40% 

This written component is an individual work.

The broad title for this assessment is Indigenous culture and business.You are expected to select a real-life case to demonstrate and discuss the impact of a business investment (e.g. mining, oil and gas, infrastruture development, etc.) on the indigenous communities, societies, and cultures.
There are exemplar reports (by past students) for this assessment.They are in the Assessments folder (under the folder "Exemplars for assessments").

Please have an ongoing discussion (both in class and individually) with your class lecturer to further develop your focus and approach for this assessment.In addition,you are also required to answer the question,“Are there any ethical implications?If so,what are they?

This assessment requires you to produce a well-written and well-researched piece supported by a minimum of 12 references.At least 5 of these references should come from academic peerreviewed sources and the remainder from company reports,news reports, newspaper articles,and relevant websites. 

Note that the Chicago referencing style is the only acceptable referencing style for written work in this unit. 

The expected length of this assignment is 2000 words excluding references and with 100 words of acceptable leeway (using Times New Roman 12-point font, 1.5 line spacing).The writing should be in a scholarly style with a clear report structure (title; table of content; introduction; headings and subheadings for the body of the report; conclusion and recommendation).It is not necessary to include an executive summary for this assessment.

You are expected to select a real-life case to demonstrate and discuss the impact of a business investment (e.g. mining, oil and gas, infrastruture development, etc.) on the indigenous communities, societies, and cultures.

Please be aware that serious penalties (including failed assignments) apply for cases of plagiarism and cheating in this and other assignments in this unit.Please read the policy on academic integrity below.

Please have an ongoing discussion (both in class and individually) with your class lecturer to further develop your focus and approach for this assessment.In addition,you are also required to answer the question,“Are there any ethical implications?If so,what are they?

As a way of ensuring that individual students are working on this assessment consistently and regularly,we will be asking individual students to report on their work-in-progress in order to share with the rest of the class.