8 December 2020
MEDIA STATEMENT
NSW Progresses Closing the Gap Jurisdictional Plan
The NSW Coalition of Aboriginal Peak Organisations (CAPO) and NSW Government have agreed on governance arrangements to guide the development of the NSW Jurisdictional Plan to deliver on our Closing the Gap commitments.…
7 December 2020
Have Your Say on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Reform
In 2010, a bipartisan commitment was made to reform NSW Aboriginal Culture and Heritage (ACH) laws. The laws have been under review since, for more than 10 years.
In 2018 a draft Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill was consulted on.…
3 December 2020
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) supports the findings of the 2020 Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage (OID) Report, which detail the vital role that Aboriginal community-controlled organisations play in addressing disadvantage.
The report by the Productivity Commission has found that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures create a strong foundation for building wellbeing in 32 key areas, and that successful initiatives shared the following characteristics by:
2 December 2020
The $50 million Aboriginal Community Housing Investment Fund (ACHIF) recently announced by the NSW Government builds on consultation undertaken with the Aboriginal Community Housing Sector during 2020.
The aim is to provide grant funding to:
26 November 2020
The Office of the Registrar and the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) would like to provide updated advice to Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC) members regarding the current situation with COVID-19.
LALC Meetings:
As COVID-19 restrictions continue to ease and community transmission is diminished, LALCs should consider holding members’ meetings in a COVID-safe way.…
11 November 2020
When our current Council including five new Councillors took office following the November 2019 NSWALC election, none of us could have predicted the challenges we would face in the coming year.
As the year began, we all believed we would be celebrating NAIDOC in July and the Knockout in October, as always.…
30 October 2020
NSWALC has secured a supply of 99,000 single use face masks, which will be distributed to assist Aboriginal communities in New South Wales to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The masks were sourced via a donation from tech giant Apple, which has made significant contributions to assist countries across the globe to deal with the crisis.…
7 October 2020
A significant milestone’s been reached for NSWALC Housing Ltd, which will now begin management of its first brand-new properties.
Four townhouses in the western Sydney suburb of Oxley Park have been handed over by the Aboriginal Housing Office (AHO) to NHL to undertake tenancy and property management.…
1 October 2020
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) would like to inform the Land Rights network that a further time extension of six months has been approved for Local Aboriginal Land Councils to review their Community Land and Business Plans (CLBPs).…
28 August 2020
The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council’s Investment Fund recovered strongly in April, May and June after experiencing losses caused by the COVID 19 pandemic in March this year.
At its meeting in Tamworth on Wednesday 12 August, the Council heard that the fund grew by 6.4 percent, 7.3 percent above its benchmark for the last quarter of the financial year to 30 June 2020.…
