The Palawa Business Hub's 2026 Aboriginal Business Showcase brought together Indigenous enterprises from across Lutruwita / Tasmania in Nipaluna / Hobart.

Held on Thursday at Princes Wharf No, the showcase was a gathering celebrating the success of Aboriginal businesses during Aboriginal Business Month, while creating opportunities to build new connections and strengthen existing relationships across government, corporate, community and Aboriginal business sectors.

Among the scores of businesses represented at the Showcase was Morey's Tours, run by Palawa woman and Nipaluna local Wendy Moore.

"We provide experiences and events, both interstate and intrastate, and it's very boutique," she told The Indigenous Business Review (a National Indigenous Times publication).

"This all came about because we saw a gap in the market, and we really wanted to do something different. And as an Aboriginal person, I wanted to provide opportunities for other Aboriginal people.

"So, myself and my husband, who was previously an educator, a school principal, decided to do something different. We both love music, we both love sport, and we love traveling. So, what better way to do it but to wrap it up in one business.

"It was supposed to be a small business, but it's just getting bigger and bigger every day."

Ms Moore said Morey's Tours joined the Palawa Business Hub because it provides "incredible services and supports".

"We couldn't have got this far without them," she said.

"we're a very small business and expected to be small, but through the support that we got through the Palawa Business Hub, we've been able to grow. They provided mentoring, opportunities to learn in social media, AI, all these areas... I'm now much better placed thanks to the Palawa Business Hub."

Ms Moore said supporting Indigenous businesses is vital for a range of reasons.

"The first one is Aboriginal people are less than three per cent of the population, and we want to be heard, we want to be proud, and we want to be loud. To support us means that you're putting money back into a disadvantaged group of people, and will make an immense difference to the community broadly," she said.

Eliza Gibbs, a Gamilaraay / Yualarray woman originally from the far North West of NSW, was at the Showcase representing her new business Koori Quench.

"My business is catering and drinks carts, and we do catering at parties, private events, and wherever people ask us to be," she told The Indigenous Business Review.

"We started about two months ago. I started the business to help my uni student daughter make an income.

"Usually we're at markets on the weekend down at farmers' markets down the coast around Hobart, and our most recent event we've been at was a 35-year celebration of Riawunna, and this is our second big event of the year."

Ms Gibbs said the Palawa Business Hub has been a huge help for Koori Quench.

"One of my friends has a business registered with Palawa Business Hub, and she suggested that I should advertise my business there, and I've had an overwhelming amount of emails and phone calls from people who've seen our advertisement from Palau Business Hub website," she said.

Among the many customers at her busy Showcase stall, Ms Gibbs said the most popular choices were among "our hand-mixed lemonade, lemonade of all different flavours".

"We also sold out of fresh watermelon juice that I cold press every morning, and we sold out of hand-mixed iced tea as well," she said.

The event was extremely popular, with hundreds of guests filing through the Showcase stalls throughout the day.