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Ngurratjuta Pmara Ntjarra Justice Reinvestment

Papunya, NT

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A community-led justice reinvestment program being implemented by Ngurratjuta/Pmara Ntjarra Aboriginal Corporation, taking a coordination and referral approach focused primarily on the young people of Papunya, Mt Liebig and Haasts Bluff, under a Local Decision Making agreement with the NT Government, NIAA and the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department.

Impact on the record

What the public record shows

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The ledger in plain view

Funding on record (lead organisation)

$2,538,039

Cost of detaining one child for a year

$1,300,000

ROGS 2026 national average

Equivalent child-years of detention

2

This is funding recorded against the lead organisation, not the site-specific federal allocation, which governments publish only as national envelopes. The comparison sets what a community receives against the price of a single cell, so the question moves from whether to fund the community to why we still fund the cell.

  • $2,538,039niaa-senate-order-16

What runs here

Programs and approaches

Ngurratjuta/Pmara Ntjarra Justice Reinvestment (Papunya, Mt Liebig, Haasts Bluff)

Aboriginal-led Justice Reinvestment program covering three Central Australian communities: Papunya, Mount Liebig, and Haasts Bluff. Includes Child and Family Centre in Papunya with outreach services, coordination and referral for young people, and 10-year plan covering training, housing, community…

  • Justice Reinvestment Program (coordination and referral approach focused on young people of Papunya, Mt Liebig and Haasts Bluff)
  • Ngurrajuta Pmara/Ntjarra Local Decision Making (LDM) Agreement
  • Healthy Homes / Strengthening Families and Communities program (Papunya, Haasts Bluff, Mt Liebig)
  • Child and Family Centre, Papunya
  • ngurratjutayouthcorps (youth program)

The people

Who leads the work

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The arc

How this site came to be

  1. 1985

    Ngurratjuta/Pmara Ntjarra Aboriginal Corporation (ICN 414) incorporated in August 1985 under the Aboriginal Corporations Act 1976, originally to receive and distribute statutory royalties from Mereenie and Palm Valley oil and gas operations to affected Aboriginal communities.

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  2. 2024

    Ngurrajuta Pmara/Ntjarra Local Decision Making (LDM) Agreement signed 11 April 2024 between Ngurratjuta/Pmara Ntjarra Aboriginal Corporation, the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) and the NT Government, covering Papunya, Mt Liebig and Haasts Bluff in Stage 1. The agreement includes implementing a Justice Reinvestment Program across the three communities in partnership with the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department.

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In the record

News and reports

About this page

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