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Munupi Aboriginal Corporation · Pirlangimpi, Tiwi Islands
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Munupi Aboriginal Corporation · Pirlangimpi, Tiwi Islands
Self-reliance, strong culture, lasting opportunity.
To better the lives of those living on the Tiwi Islands, empowering the Munupi family groups to achieve economic self-reliance, cultural resilience, and lasting opportunity across the Tiwi Aboriginal Land Trust Region.
Thriving on our terms, on our Country.
Munupi Aboriginal Corporation exists to improve the cultural, social, physical, mental, and economic wellbeing of the Munupi community in Pirlangimpi. We work to advance Aboriginal business ownership, support commercially and culturally sustainable enterprise, and connect our community with the funding, services, and opportunities it needs to thrive.
Creating economic opportunities that build financial independence and lasting prosperity for Munupi people.
Helping Aboriginal people establish commercially and culturally sustainable businesses that strengthen independence and community.
Securing funding and partnerships that bring services, investment and opportunity to Pirlangimpi.
Initiatives coming soonStrengthening Munupi voice, culture and resilience, guided by the identity and aspirations of our community.
Drawing on traditional knowledge to strengthen Aboriginal ownership, participation and opportunity in business.
Initiatives coming soonAdvancing Munupi self-determination, including our long-term aspiration for Traditional Owner control of the township lease.
Initiatives coming soonMunupi Aboriginal Corporation represents the traditional owners of the Munupi group, centred in the community of Pirlangimpi on the Tiwi Islands. We are a community organisation, led by and for our people, working to ensure our community thrives for generations to come.
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Stories and updates from Munupi are on their way.
Munupi Aboriginal Corporation is governed by a Board of Directors drawn from the traditional owner community. We are committed to transparent, accountable, and culturally grounded leadership in the delivery of our mission across the Tiwi Islands.
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To empower the Munupi voice, to strengthen cultural knowledge and to enable resilience and economic self reliance.
To undertake economic development opportunities for the benefit of Aboriginal people in the Tiwi Aboriginal Land Trust region.
To assist in advancing the condition and welfare of Aboriginal people in the Tiwi Aboriginal Land Trust Region through promotion of industry, trade and commerce among those Aboriginal People in the Tiwi Aboriginal Trust Region.
To assist Aboriginal People in the Tiwi Aboriginal Land Trust Region to initiate and create commercially and culturally sustainable enterprise in order to promote economic independence of Aboriginal People in the Tiwi Aboriginal Land Trust and to pursue community development initiatives.
To access and utilise traditional knowledge systems to promote ownership and empowerment in business enterprises for the purpose of advancing the interests of Aboriginal People in the Tiwi Aboriginal Land Trust Region.
To encourage and promote and generally to create greater community awareness in the knowledge and understanding of the operations of the and the objects of the Corporation.
To facilitate peace, order and good relations within the Township Area.
To use resources available to it so that Aboriginal people in the Tiwi Aboriginal Land Trust region have the opportunity to overcome the severe social, economic and health-related disadvantages which they face.
For the relief of poverty, misfortune, destitution, disadvantage, distress, dispossession, helplessness and suffering amongst Aboriginal people in the Township Area.
To seek and co-ordinate funding from Federal, State, Territory and Local Governments, and the private sector, including in the form of grants, gifts, donations and bequests committed to the objects of the Corporation.
To establish, administer and maintain a charitable trust or trusts for the benefit of one or more of the Aboriginal People in the Tiwi Aboriginal Land Trust Region.
To realise the future aspirations and vision of Munupi to transfer the township lease to a Traditional Owner organisation. Through the establishment of the transitional and implementation framework that demonstrates the ability to comply with a lessee's obligations prescribed in the township head lease and to seek consent of the Tiwi Land Council and the approval of the Minister to be recognised as a Commonwealth entity pursuant to section 3AAA of the Land Rights Act, so as to hold and administer a township lease under section 19A of the Land Rights Act in accordance with the terms and conditions of the lease instrument, including the administration of subleases and licences in accordance with their terms and conditions, and other rights and interests derived from such subleases and licences.
