Collaboration & strong relationships
A strong system of Aboriginal housing demands strong relationships. We cultivate genuine, collaborative partnerships with other peak bodies, land councils, governments, research organisations, and key stakeholders such as the Northern Territory registrar of the National Regulatory System for Community Housing (NRSCH).
We collaborate with Territory and Commonwealth governments, through the Joint Steering Committee on remote Aboriginal housing and its working groups, and we have a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with NT Shelter and Menzies School of Health Research to advocate for the rights and interests of Aboriginal people and organisations.
We are connected
Aside from members of AHNT, below are organisations we are associated with..
Northern Territory
- Aboriginal Investment NT
- Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the Northern Territory (APO NT)
- Anindilyakwa Land Council (ALC)
- Central Land Council (CLC)
- Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR)
- Centre for Appropriate Technology (CfAT) and its bush tech archive
- Contractor Accreditation Limited (CAL) – the NT’s scheme for accrediting contractors in the building and industry
- Desert Knowledge Research Institute
- Northern Land Council (NLC)
- Northern Territory Council of Social Service (NTCOSS)
- Northern Territory Government departments of families, housing and communities (TFHC), homeland services and infrastructure, planning and land (DIPL)
- Northern Territory Indigenous Business Network (NTIBN)
- NT Shelter
- Shelter Me – for accommodation and support services in the NT
- Tiwi Land Council (TLC)
Broader-focused orgs
- Assemble Papers – better, fairer system changes
- Australian Government department of housing
- Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Indigenous perspectives
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) determinants of health for Indigenous Australians
- Australian Human Rights Commission / Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
- Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR)
- Coalition of Peaks
- Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA)
- Council to Homeless Persons
- First Nations Clean Energy Network
- Grattan Institute – makes high-quality public policy recommendations for Australia’s future
- Healthabitat – housing for health
- Healthy Environments and Lives network (HEAL) – an Indigenous research network
- Homelessness Australia
- Housing for Health Incubator – a research body tackling the challenge of decent Indigenous housing and infrastructure
- Indigenous Research Data Commons
- Lowitja Institute – Aboriginal community-controlled health research institute
- Menzies School of Health Research
- National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA)
- National Regulatory System for Community Housing (NRSCH) – registers community housing providers ensuring compliance with the National Regulatory Code.
- National Shelter
- Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC)
- Original Power
- Supply Nation – host of a verified directory of Indigenous businesses
- Water Aid
National & State Aboriginal housing orgs
- Aboriginal Community Housing Industry Association (ACHIA) – New South Wales
- Aboriginal Housing Victoria (AHV)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Queensland (ATSIHQ)
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Association (NATSIHA)
- Noongar Mia Mia – Western Australia
- SEARMS Community Housing Aboriginal Corporation (SEARMS) – South Eastern New South Wales
- South Australian Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisation Network (SAACCON)
Photo credit: senior woman weaving at Jibena homeland, 2023, by Rykia Blanco.