1 March 2022
Applications Open 2022-23 Round of the NSWALC Regional Event Grants (formerly NSWALC State Wide Grants)
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) is pleased to announce that applications are now being sought for the 2022-23 round of NSWALC Regional Event Grants.…
24 February 2022
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) met with the Hon Ben Franklin MLC, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs during its 420th meeting, held in Terrigal from Tuesday February 15 to Thursday February 17.
A number of a issues were discussed including Culture and Heritage, Closing the Gap and Aboriginal Fishing Rights.…
23 February 2022
The NSW Government has made a commitment to make COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) more easily available to NSW residents in order to boost the pandemic health response across the state.
Aboriginal Affairs NSW and NSWALC continue to work together to ensure Aboriginal communities have priority access to RATs.…
10 February 2022
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) welcomes the NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s commitment to make Aboriginal issues a priority for his government.
NSWALC looks forward to working with the Government to translate this commitment into practical delivery around the State.…
4 February 2022
Update on LALC Members’ Meetings, Compliance, COVID-19 Restrictions and Rapid Antigen Tests
The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) would like to provide further updated advice to Local Aboriginal Land Councils (LALCs) regarding the holding of Members’ Meetings, LALC compliance requirements and Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs).…
25 January 2022
Commemorating January 26, 2022
January 26 is our Day of Mourning, Invasion Day. The day we reaffirm our survival.
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) calls on governments to abolish the date. For too long, we have had to endure a day that symbolises pain and suffering for our people.…
19 January 2022
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) would like to congratulate university student Luke Hodge, who has been awarded the 2022 NSW Aboriginal Land Council Educational Scholarship.
The $10,000 Scholarship is aimed at penultimate year students at a tertiary institution in NSW.…
26 November 2021
Special Event Grant Funding Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
On 26 January 1972, four young men set up a beach umbrella on the lawns opposite Parliament House in Canberra.
Describing the umbrella as the Aboriginal Embassy, Michael Anderson, Billy Craigie, Bertie Williams and Tony Coorey were protesting the-then McMahon Government’s approach to Aboriginal Land Rights.…
17 December 2021
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) urges caution over the Federal Government’s proposal to move ahead with an Indigenous Voice that is inconsistent with the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
The proposal will create confusion and division within community, and again governments set down what they think is best for Aboriginal people by creating structures that divide and conquer.…
