Current opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and organisations

The scholarship aims to support a Tasmanian Aboriginal student with financial support for the duration of their undergraduate degree, and to offer the successful applicant opportunities to connect with Reconciliation Tasmania.

For details, click here.

The Land and Sea Aboriginal Corporation Tasmania (LSACT) is the first not for profit and registered charity to operate commercial abalone fisheries and establish a domestic food tourism market. Working with the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation
(ILSC) and the Tasmanian Government, LSACT is furthering training and business
opportunities.
The Wave to Plate program is run and led by Aboriginal Tasmanians, offering a supported environment to enable Aboriginal people to gain and succeed in employment in the areas of fisheries and maritime to hospitality and tourism. We elevate Aboriginal leadership in our work, through growing strong communities and cultural knowledge of Sea Country.
We have workplace mentors who link services, people, industry and skills together for increased employment impact. Our Employment Service Officer and mentors will help navigate partnerships between Aboriginal communities and employers to improve workforce capacity and retention, bringing opportunities, especially to our youth and women, to foster successful employment outcomes.

For details, click here.

Reconciliation Tasmania has a contact list to notify First Nations artists living in Tasmania about commissioning opportunities from our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) clients. We are calling for expressions of interest from:

• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander artists who are living in Tasmania;
• Tasmanian Aboriginal artists, wherever you live

For more information and to register, click here.

Lowitja Institute is proud to offer a number of conference attendance grants to our 4th International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference on Kaurna Country, Adelaide 16–19 June 2025. Grants are supported by the Department of Health and Aged Care and the OCHRe network through the OWL Hub and our generous sponsors.

The conference attendance grants provide support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and community members to attend the conference to increase their networking opportunities with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, communities and experts, engage with international Indigenous leaders in the field of health and wellbeing, and contribute to a diverse program of knowledge translation to contribute to their professional and personal development.

For details, click here. Applications due by Monday 24 March 2025.

The Disaster Ready Fund is the Australian Government’s flagship disaster resilience and risk reduction initiative which will fund projects to support Australians to manage the physical, social and economic impacts of disasters caused by climate change and other natural hazards. The Disaster Ready Fund provides up to $200 million per year to fund projects that build resilience to prepare for, or reduce the risk of, future natural hazard impacts across Australia.
The primary objectives of the Disaster Ready Fund are to:

1. increase the understanding of natural hazard disaster impacts, as a first step towards reducing disaster impacts in the future;
2. increase the resilience, adaptive capacity and/or preparedness of governments, community service organisations and affected communities to minimise the potential impact of natural hazards and avert disasters; and
3. reduce the exposure to risk, harm and/or severity of a natural hazard’s impacts, including reducing the recovery burden for governments, cohorts at disproportionate disaster risk, and/or affected communities.

Funding and administration decisions are made by the Australian Government.
Resilience and Recovery Tasmania (RRT) in the Department of Premier and Cabinet administers whole-of-government programs that support Tasmanian communities to build resilience and reduce disaster risk. RRT is the Lead Agency in administering Tasmanian Applicants for Disaster Ready Fund in partnership with the Australian Government’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
RRT is responsible for conducting an initial assessment of project proposals, prioritising them against state/territory priorities, seeking ministerial endorsement and submitting the most competitive proposals as applications to NEMA using NEMA’s online application portal.

Please read the Guidelines before making an application. Applicants are also encouraged to visit the Disaster Ready Fund website to view the list of successful projects for Round One and Two.
For further information, advice or to apply, please contact:

Resilience & Recovery Tasmania

Project Manager (Funding Programs)

Email: resilience@dpac.tas.gov.au

Phone: (03) 6270 5601

Applications close at 2pm on 5 April 2025

Paul Ramsay Foundation (PRF) is opening new opportunities for First Nations communities in Tasmania, the Northern Territory, the Torres Strait, regional and remote Queensland, and regional and remote South Australia as part of its First Nations Targeted Grant Round.

The grants, valued up to $500,000 each, are designed to support regional and remote First Nations peoples’ and communities’ self-determination, empowering First Nations-led organisations to strengthen their impact.

For information and to apply, click here. Closes 7 April 2025 at 5pm.

The Family and Sexual Violence: Supporting Diverse Communities Grants Program 2024-25 (FSV Grants Program) will provide grants up to $80,000 per application for community organisations to deliver community-based projects and/or enhanced service capability to support inclusion, access and equity for diverse people and groups who experience barriers to support for family and sexual violence.

Please note that the guidelines have recently been updated to enable a broader range of groups to apply. If you have already submitted an application, you can update it.

For details, click here. Applications close at 10am on 30 April 2025

Arts Tasmania offers grants and funding to support:

• Tasmanian small museums and collections
• Tasmanian artists and arts workers
• arts businesses and arts organisations delivering activities in Tasmania

For information and to subscribe to Arts Tasmania’s mailing list, click here.

The First Nations Clean Energy Network’s Finance and Funding Opportunities page highlights some of the funding opportunities available to assist First Nations households, communities and businesses transition to renewable energy.

To see the latest opportunities, click here.

The Narragunnawali Reconciliation in Education Awards are the only national awards program that recognises and celebrates Australian schools and early learning services that are implementing outstanding reconciliation initiatives.

Reconciliation Australia invites educators, school leaders, carers, parents, and community members to nominate schools or early learning services that are implementing outstanding reconciliation initiatives.

For information, click here. Nominations close on 18 April 2025.

The 2nd First Nations Women in Leadership Summit held in Meanjin | Brisbane is an opportunity to gather amongst a community of First Nations women and be inspired by the shared stories of cultural knowledge, wisdom, and strength. Through storytelling, reflection, and connection this summit honours and celebrates the vital role First Nations women hold as carers, teachers, healers, and leaders in their workplaces, families, and communities, and serves as a vulnerable and safe space for women to come together, share and learn from one another. 

For information, click here.

The International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference, hosted by the Lowitja Institute, is a biennial event attracting a global audience committed to sharing knowledge for the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples and communities from around the world. It is a space for sharing innovative ideas and transformational research grounded in our ways of knowing, being and doing.

Our 4th International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference 2025 theme is Strong, Fearless, Together and honours the legacy of our co-patron and namesake, the late Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue AC CBE DSG.

With unwavering courage and grace, Dr O’Donoghue’s legacy drives this year’s theme to stand STRONG, be FEARLESS and work TOGETHER for the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples. As Dr O’Donoghue once told us, the future is in our hands, and we all have a big job to do.

For more information, click here.

The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is inviting opportunities to contribute to the “Informing the Agenda” Project. The Project seeks to collate and communicate the perspectives of First Nations Peoples across Australia on the key issues affecting their lives, and to ensure First Nations voices are elevated in national conversations relevant to the fulfillment of their human rights.

These perspectives inform the agenda of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (Social Justice Commissioner), Katie Kiss, regarding key challenges First Nations Peoples consider worthwhile pursuing over her five-year term; the critical elements that are producing positive outcomes in the present, and how to work together to drive transformative change for First Nations communities across the policy and legislative landscape.

It will also provide an opportunity for stakeholders to provide input into key focus areas that:

• promote better engagement with First Nations Peoples
• create the conditions for better outcomes
• progress a reframed relationship between First Nations and the broader Australian community.

The Project invited participation in three different formats to “Inform the Agenda”. This included:

• Community and online consultation events – click here for a list of dates and locations
• Face-to-Face and online engagements – if your organisation would like to contribute through these engagements, please email informingtheagenda@humanrights.gov.au
• Online survey (CLOSED)
• Written submission (CLOSED)

Hydro Tasmania wants to build and strengthen relationships, and from this hear about the needs and wants of Tasmanian Aboriginal people so we can better reflect these through action.
For details click here or contact the Aboriginal Engagement Team AboriginalEngagement@hydro.com.au

The Bugmy Bar Book is a free, evidence-based resource for lawyers and legal decision-makers, as well as policy-makers and other professionals.

Its chapters are accessible summaries of key research about the impacts of experiences of trauma, socioeconomic inequality, structural disadvantage and strengths-based rehabilitation. 

Chapters may provide an evidence base to support legal advocacy and decision-making, and are intended to promote improved understanding of the experiences of people who are brought into contact with the legal system.

While a key function of this project is to assist legal practitioners in the preparation and presentation of material in sentencing proceedings to establish the application of the principles in Bugmy v The Queen (2013) 249 CLR 571, these publications may also have relevance in other criminal law contexts, such as bail and mental health diversionary applications, as well as in various civil law practice areas, proceedings before tribunals, coronial inquests and other inquisitorial jurisdictions.

For further information and to access the Bugmy Bar Book, click here.