Useful Links

• ANTAR National site
  • All affiliates
  • Victoria
  • Queensland
  • Western Australia

Campaigns we support

• ANTaR ACT supports the Change the Record campaign, a national, Aboriginal led justice coalition of legal, health and family violence prevention experts whose mission is to end the incarceration of, and family violence against, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. ANTAR National is a founding member of this group.
• Raise the age is a campaign supported by ANTAR and the Change the Record coalition of legal, medical and social justice organisations, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community owned organisations. Raisetheage.org.au shows why 10-year-old children simply should not be going to prison, and what some of the alternatives are.
• ANTAR continues to campaign for Voice, Treaty and Truth, following the invitation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The Uluru Dialogue at the UNSW Indigenous Law Centre is a group of First Nations and non-Indigenous community leaders, law scholars and advocates based at the UNSW Indigenous Law Centre, that run education programs and projects to advance the work of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. 
• See also our page on current campaigns: Campaigns – ANTaR ACT. In our Election 2024 campaign, we highlighted what Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people were calling for in the ACT, with a particular focus on returning Boomanulla Oval and the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm to community control.
• We have worked very closely with Active Democracy Bean, on the Election 2024 campaign and other initiatives.

Official organisations on the ACT

• ACT Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs – The Office gives advice to the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs on issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the ACT.
• ACT Reconciliation Council – The ACT Reconciliation Council promotes reconciliation across Canberra and encourage community conversations about the importance of reconciliation throughout the year.
• ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body (ATSIEB) – The Elected Body represents Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in Canberra. Each member of the Elected Body is democratically voted in by Canberra’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. They are then appointed to the Elected Body for 3 years on a part-time basis. The Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson are voted into their roles by the elected members.
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) – AIATSIS is an Indigenous-led, national institute that celebrates, educates and inspires people from all walks of life to connect with the knowledge, heritage and cultures of Australia’s First Peoples.

Local Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations

• Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Services – Winnunga is an Aboriginal community controlled primary health care service operated by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community of the ACT.
• Gugan Gulwan Youth Aboriginal Corporation (Facebook page) – Gugan Gulwan exists to support young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in and around the ACT to thrive and succeed.
• Yerrabi Yurwang Child & Family Aboriginal Corporation – Yerrabi was established in 2019, due to the high unmet health and wellbeing needs of the local Aboriginal Community residing in Canberra’s Northwestern Ngunnawal region.
  • Blak Book – Yerrabi Yurwang created the Blak Book to help Aboriginal people in the ACT find the services they need in one place. This includes food, money, transport, housing, domestic & family violence support, health & wellbeing services, education, employment & learning and legal assistance.
• Yeddung Mura – Good Pathways – Yeddung Mura is a grassroots Aboriginal Corporation founded to address critical gaps identified by Aboriginal elders in supporting Aboriginal people within the community. The organisation focuses on reducing recidivism by aiding the smooth reintegration of Aboriginal prisoners post-release, particularly those lacking strong community connections.
• Sisters in Spirit Aboriginal Corporation (Facebook page) – An ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Womens Organisation.
• Aboriginal Legal Service NSW ACT – ALS delivers free, culturally appropriate legal advice, representation, information and referrals, alongside critical community services. ALS is also a peak body recognised for strong advocacy and law reform work.

Local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture

• Thunderstone (Murungul Gurubung) Aboriginal Cultural and Land Management Services – Thunderstone is committed to educating the wider community about Aboriginal culture and heritage, specifically the culture, history and stories of the Ngunawal people of Canberra and region
• Burrunju Aboriginal Art Gallery – Canberra’s only Aboriginal owned Art Gallery, established in 2014. Burrunju is an Aboriginal owned and run not-for-profit charity.
• First Nations art at the National Gallery of Australia – The National Gallery is committed to ensuring First Nations art, artists and culture are at the heart of the national cultural agenda.
• First Australians at the National Museum of Australia – The First Australians exhibition is displayed over two floors and includes the powerful Talking Blak to History exhibition.
• First Nations Experiences of Democracy at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House – On this tour you will hear stories of how First Nations Australians have created change.
• ‘Yeribee’ Indigenous Experiences of Parliament House Tour (cost applies) – Hear the stories of our Indigenous parliamentarians and experience artworks from the Parliament House Art Collections by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The tour will look at The Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples, the Yirrkala bark petitions and pieces from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from the Parliament House Art Collections.
• Aboriginal Plant Use Trail Walk at the Australian National Botanic Gardens – Discover the many ingenious ways Australian Aboriginal people used plants for food, fire, tools and more on this self-guided walk.
• Canberra Tracks – Ngunnawal Country – This track takes you on a journey into the Aboriginal story of the nation’s capital that goes back at least 20,000 years.
  • Includes the Theodore Grinding Grooves – The Theodore Aboriginal artefact grinding grooves demonstrate an important aspect of past Aboriginal lifestyles and technologies.
  • Also see Gubur Dhaura (part of the Gunghalin trail) – Gubur Dhaura is the Ngunnawal name for ‘ochre ground’. In the past the Ngunnawal people invited other tribal groups here to acquire ochre for ceremonies, trade and other purposes.
• Namadgi National Park Yankee Hat walk (brochure) – The Yankee Hat art sites are located within Namadgi in the Gudgenby Valley, in a complex of boulders situated at the foot of Yankee Hat Mountain. Carbon dating of the campsite deposits in the Yankee Hat rock shelter show that Aboriginal people began using the shelter more than 800 years ago.
• Reconciliation Place Self-Guided Walking Tour – Reconciliation Place, in the National Triangle by Lake Burley Griffin, includes 17 artworks that tell stories of First Nations peoples, cultures, histories, and aspirations.