About Us
Aboriginal Housing NT (AHNT) is the independent peak body for Aboriginal community-controlled organisations that provide housing and housing-related services in the Northern Territory.
Our vision
Aboriginal housing in Aboriginal hands.
Our mission
AHNT represents and supports Aboriginal community-controlled housing organisations across the Northern Territory. AHNT advocates strongly for the return of housing development and management control to Aboriginal people, their organisations and their homelands, town camps and communities.
Building on the success of our inaugural conference this year in Garramilla (Darwin), where 276 delegates came together from over 50 organisations we continue building on our shared long-term journey toward Aboriginal housing in Aboriginal hands.
The theme for our 2nd Aboriginal Housing and Homelands Conference is ‘building a strong, self-determined Aboriginal housing and homelands sector in the Northern Territory’.
The focus of the conference is homelessness, housing, homelands, including town camps/community living areas.
This conference will build on the strengths of the previous Aboriginal housing forums run by the Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the Northern Territory (APO NT) in 2015 and 2018.
Background
AHNT was formed following the 2015 Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT (APO NT) Aboriginal Housing Forum and has been active ever since with the strong support of over a dozen Aboriginal organisations, their boards, community leaders and elders. The establishment of AHNT was a strong signal that Aboriginal leaders want to regain control over housing development and management in their communities.
AHNT member organisations represent:
- around 47,811 Aboriginal people or 41.7% of the population in the electorate of Lingiari, which covers most of the Northern Territory, and
- around 9752 Aboriginal people or 8.5% of the population in the electorate of Solomon, which covers Darwin and Palmerston
In March 2018, AHNT hosted the second APO NT Aboriginal Housing Forum. This forum attracted almost 200 delegates and representatives from over 60 NT Aboriginal organisations. Forum delegates expressed overwhelming support for the development of AHNT as a representative voice for Aboriginal people in the NT and for Aboriginal people to regain control over housing in their communities, homelands, outstations, town camps, and community living areas.
On 23 August 2019, Aboriginal Housing NT (AHNT) Aboriginal Corporation – ICN 9120 – was registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006.
On 13 July 2021, AHNT signed a formal memorandum of understanding with NT Shelter to support, prioritise and advocate for needs-based funding for the homelessness and housing sectors in the Northern Territory.
AHNT is a member of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Association (NATSIHA). NATSIHA is the first and only national leadership body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing in Australia. Its purpose is to facilitate access to quality, accessible, affordable and culturally appropriate housing to help empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, families and communities to optimise their health and wellbeing and improve their employment opportunities, access to education, connection to the community and sense of home.
AHNT works closely with the Australian and Northern Territory governments, and land councils as a member of the Joint Steering Committee for the National Partnership Agreement for Remote Housing and to establish a regulated, sustainable and resilient Aboriginal community-controlled housing and homelands sector.
For more information, head to our website: ahnt.org.au
Key Dates
Conference Dates: 9-12 April, 2024
Presentation Submissions: Closed
Early Bird Registrations: 25 Jan - 15 March, 2024
Contact Us
Agentur Pty Ltd
ABN 57 151 252 989
15 Cavenagh Street
Darwin NT 0800, Australia
Phone: +61 8 8981 2010
Enquiries: ahhconference2024@agentur.com.au