The Aboriginal Benefit Account (ABA) is a Commonwealth Special Account set up under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 to receive royalties from mines located on Aboriginal owned and controlled land in the Northern Territory (NT) for use to benefit Aboriginal people living in the NT. ABA grants are now managed by Aboriginal Investment NT.
For further information on the Aboriginal Investment NT and the ABA grant process, please visit Aboriginal Investment NT.
ABA Homelands Project
The ABA Homelands Project invested more than $50 million to improve living conditions in homelands (or outstations) across the Northern Territory. It grew out of the ABA Advisory Committee’s Investing in Country and Culture proposal.
Final applications under this project were due 31 December 2024 and the project is considered closed.
Outcomes of previous ABA rounds
Organisations recommended for funding before 2023 are listed in the following documents.
- ABA Funding October 2022 Outcomes - XLSX 48KB
- ABA Funding July 2022 Outcomes - XLSX 50 KB
- ABA Funding April 2022 Outcomes - XLSX 56 KB
- ABA Funding 1-2 March 2022 Outcomes - XLSX 52 KB | PDF 178 KB
- ABA Funding August 2020 - XLSX 58 KB | PDF 178 KB
- ABA Funding February 2020 - XLSX 61 KB | PDF 180 KB
- ABA Funding August 2019 - XLSX 43 KB | PDF 107 KB
- ABA Funding February 2019 - XLSX 28 KB | PDF 110 KB
- ABA Funding August 2018 - XLSX 15 MB | PDF 92 KB
- ABA Funding February 2018 - XLSX 24 KB | PDF 83 KB