The COVID-19 pandemic poses significant challenges for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations. We are working on temporary provisions to support your operations and governance, and will update this page as information becomes available. Thank you for your patience and cooperation.
Last updated 2 June 2020
ORIC services
We are open! We’ve got staff located all around the country, some working in offices and others working from home. For the time being we have stopped providing face-to-face services such as training workshops and visiting corporations, but we’re connected, ready to help, and working on other ways to support your operations and governance.
We can't yet predict when it will be appropriate to resume scheduled training workshops but when the time comes, we will publish the full schedule as usual, and notify all corporations.
Feel free to call or email us—1800 622 431 or info@oric.gov.au—during normal business hours.
Resources and support
We have compiled the following resources to support corporations during the pandemic:
- Registrar's response:
- extensions of time to meet and report
- special rules you can adopt if needed to allow for online meeting and decision-making
- Australian Government relief and support
- self-help—action your corporation can take
- guidance on:
- online meetings
- meeting-free decision-making (forthcoming)
