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The Elected Body has 7 members representing First Nations peoples in the ACT. Our job is to be a strong, democratically elected voice to the ACT Government. We listen to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Canberrans and represent your ideas and concerns to the changemakers, so we can get results on issues that are important to us. Our direct advice to local government supports safety, quality of life and reconciliation for our community in Canberra and surrounds.

The Council provides a unique opportunity to build genuine, respectful and reciprocal relationships between Aboriginal people and the WA Government to achieve better life outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men, women and children. It meets up to six times per year to provide advice on a range of policy matters.

Aboriginal Affairs NSW works with Aboriginal communities to promote social, economic and cultural well-being through opportunity, choice, healing, responsibility and empowerment.

Art, culture, drug and alcohol, counselling, heritage, planning, employment, health, storylines, youth.

Links to information about Australia’s 120 Aboriginal Land and Sea Councils.  The councils represent Aboriginal affairs at state or territory level. They aim to protect the interests and further the aspirations of Aboriginal communities. The first Councils were established in the Northern Territory from 1976 and they are now found in every jurisdiction except the ACT.

The Ambassador for First Nations People is responsible for leading the Government's efforts to embed Indigenous perspectives, experiences and interests across the Department and develop a First Nations Foreign Policy Strategy. The Ambassador will head an Office of First Nations Engagement, once established, within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and work in partnership across government agencies and departments, especially working closely with the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA). The Ambassador is currently supported by the First Nations Taskforce in DFAT. A key role of the Ambassador is to undertake consultation with First Nations communities, leaders and advocates to listen and engage directly on how Australia's international engagement contributes to Indigenous community and economic development, supports First Nations businesses and exporters, delivers practical action on climate change, builds connections across the Indo-Pacific region and supports Indigenous rights around the world.

Speeches and media, including related to Indigenous Affairs and the Voice.

To tell the story of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. Create opportunities for people to encounter, engage with and be transformed by that story. Support and facilitate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural resurgence. Shape our national narrative.

Mission: To create inspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences that promote awareness and understanding of our cultures. We are contemporary dancers, drawing on 65,000 years of culture. We create powerful works of theatre with dance, music, poetry and design. We tell the stories of our Elders, create works on Country and return the works we create to the place they were made.

The register provides a simple and secure way for people to report or ‘call out’ incidents of racism and discrimination toward First Nations Peoples. The data is held securely by the Jumbunna Institute, UTS Sydney. Information is collected and held in confidence to be used on an anonymous basis within published research and statistical reporting of racism. No individual will ever be identified. Our purpose is to collect information on racism, including how it is experienced, how often it is occurring and the impact it is having on people. This information will inform evidence-based research that enables us to report on racism and its impacts, inform anti-racism action, support the response of First Nations organisations and leaders and educate the wider community.

Cape York Institute (CYI) is Australia’s leading Indigenous think tank. Since its establishment in 2004, we have worked with our communities to develop out-of-the-box reforms that build people’s capability so they can choose a life they have reason to value. We work from policy ideation right through to community implementation on initiatives that reinstate personal responsibility. We provide the opportunities and services necessary for First Nations people to gain the capability to change their lives for the better.  The Institute’s policy agenda – Pama Futures – is developed in collaboration with the Indigenous people of Cape York so our policies and innovations reflect the people’s intent and lived experience.

The Coalition of Peaks are made up of over 80 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled peak and member organisations across Australia. The Coalition of Peak members have their own unique histories, needs and priorities, and share a commitment to legitimate community-controlled representation of our communities on matters that are important to our people. We came together as an act of self-determination to work together with Australian governments on Closing the Gap.