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ANKA works hard to build and sustain the skills of its directors and the performance of its board—and it shows.

Top End: First incorporated in 1987, Arnhem Northern and Kimberley Artists Aboriginal Corporation—ANKA—is the lead support and advocacy body for Aboriginal artists and Aboriginal-owned community art centres in over a million square kilometres of country across northern Australia. ANKA represents close to 50 art centres and 6000 artists, and its strategy is clear and openly expressed on its website:

Lithgow, New South Wales: In late 2019, members of the Mingaan Wiradjuri Aboriginal Corporation near Lithgow were worried. The mega-blaze known as the Gospers Mountain bushfire was roaring towards them, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake.

Elder Helen Riley, one of 4 directors of the corporation, received a phone call from a local member of the Rural Fire Service: ‘The fire is heading our way and we don’t know if we can save Maiyingu Marragu.’

Through art, Erub Erwer Meta Torres Strait Islander Corporation is raising global awareness and sustaining Erubam Le people's connection to land, sea, and sky.

Cultural and artistic traditions have long enriched community life in the Torres Strait. On the island of Erub (Darnley) in the north east, Erub Erwer Meta Torres Strait Islander Corporation, trading as Erub Arts, is supporting those traditions while sustaining the unique identity of its people and their deep connection to the land, sea, and sky around them.

Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation has been awarded the 100 millionth carbon credit.

Derby, Western Australia: North Kimberley is stunning country: steep mountains, limestone gorges and thousands of acres of savanna woodland. Ngarinyin (Wilinggin) people are combining traditional fire management knowledge with contemporary scientific practices, they are reducing greenhouse gas emissions and—at the same time—earning money for their people and their communities.

Ngunnawal country, Canberra: Yerrabi Yurwang Child & Family Aboriginal Corporation was established in 2019 with objectives to improve health and wellbeing among Aboriginal children and families living on Ngunnawal country. In 2020 it won a local government grant under the ACT’s ‘new and emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations program’ (NEO).

Tech-friendly Mamabulanjin Aboriginal Corporation is leading an alliance of Aboriginal community-controlled native food producers in the Top End.

Broome, Western Australia: Having partnered with 7 other Aboriginal-owned enterprises to form the Northern Australia Aboriginal Kakadu Plum Alliance, Mamabulanjin Aboriginal Corporation is innovating to benefit Aboriginal growers and global consumers of Kakadu plums.

Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC looks after the ‘stolen generation of the dead’—and in bringing them home to rest, invites all Australians to join in the healing.

Adelaide: Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC (KYAC) has a long history, but its story is still just beginning.

Kaurna is the language of Aboriginal people from the lands and waters of Tarntanya (Adelaide) and surrounds. Yerta is their word for country. So the corporation’s name effectively means ‘our country’.

With hard work and an eye for good governance Beemurra Aboriginal Corporation has grown a thriving business in cattle backgrounding.

Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women’s Resource Centre (Aboriginal Corporation)’s strategic work is sustaining women of the Fitzroy Valley—and strengthening future generations.

Eastern Australia: Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation registered in 2018 with members in all 5 eastern Australian states and territories. The corporation supports community leadership among all those seeking to revive cultural burning as part of their land management strategy.