Our Conference
The 2026 Aboriginal Housing and Homelands Coference has been a highlight of our 2026 calendar, the conference was held at the DoubleTree by Hilton on the Esplanade in Darwin on May 20 and 21. We had a wonderful response from our members, the NT and Federal governments, The Land Councils, NGO’s and presenters who support the housing and homelands sector across the Territory. All of the speakers content is available on our YouTube Channel.
We had an impressive line-up of keynote speakers to ensure this would be a unique event. With the focus on the sector and the levels of investments available we engaged with members, partners and government contacts to share the landmarks of the past two years, looking forward again to progress and strengthen into the future. The video evidence is clear – the sector has great support, partners making great waves with innvative solutions pushing us closer to that goal of ABORIGINAL HOUSING IN ABORIGINAL HANDS.
Past Conferences
In April 2023 we hosted the inaugural conference on Larrakia country, in Garramilla (Darwin) – see the report (PDF, 3mb). In 2024 our second conference was in Mparntwe (Alice Springs).
With many esteemed keynote speakers we heard from people with knowledge and experience of:
- Aboriginal-led design and construction
- water security
- homelessness
- shelter for preventing violence against women and youth
- good design (climatically and culturally)
- sector strengthening
- homelands
- community living areas and town camps
