The Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Women's Council (NPY Women's Council, NPYWC) is a community-based community organisation formed in 1980 delivering services to the

Ngaanyatjarra The Ngaanyatjarra, also known (along with the Pini) as the Nana, are an Indigenous Australian cultural group of Western Australia. They are located in the Goldfields-Esperance region, as well as Northern Territory. Language Ngaanyatjarra is ...

Pitjantjatjara The Pitjantjatjara (; or ) are an Aboriginal people of the Central Australian desert near Uluru. They are closely related to the Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra and their languages are, to a large extent, mutually intelligible (all are v ...

and

Yankunytjatjara The Yankunytjatjara people, also written Yankuntjatjarra, Jangkundjara, and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of South Australia. Language Yankunytjatjara is a Western Desert language belonging to the Wati lan ...

women in the central desert region of Australia across the borders of the

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with its headquarters in

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. It provides a range of community, family, research and advocacy services. It addresses the common interests and family and cultural connections of women and their communities in its area of coverage, being: * Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia; *the Ngaanyatjarra Lands (including the

Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku The Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku is a remote local government area in Western Australia near the Northern Territory/South Australian border. It is from Perth. It was formed on 1 July 1993 following a report of the Local Government Boundaries Commi ...

) both leasehold and native title lands in Western Australia; and * Imanpa, Mutitjulu, Kaltukatjara and

Aputula Aputula, alternatively spelt Apatula (formerly Finke until the 1980s), is a remote Indigenous Australian community in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is south of Alice Springs and east of Kulgera roadhouse on the Stuart Highway, near ...

in the Northern Territory. The Women's Council has been an advocate of the Northern Territory Emergency Response.

Awards

The NPY Women's Council has achieved recognition for its work, awards include: * winner of the 2012 Indigenous Governance Awards presented by Reconciliation Australia and

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s **2012 Outstanding Achievement in Cultural Advancement Tjanpi Desert Weavers (also the 2005

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National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award **2011 Outstanding Achievement in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health ''No Safe Amount – The effects of alcohol in pregnancy'' (NPYWC Child Nutrition Program) (also a campaign finalist with Halo Productions for the Australian Film and Animation Festival and Highly Commended at the National Drug and Alcohol Awards) *2011 International Sigmund Freud Prize from the City of Vienna to the

Ngangkari Ngangkari are the traditional healers of the Aṉangu, Anangu, the Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal peoples who live mostly in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY Lands) of South Australia and the Western Desert cultural bloc, Weste ...

(traditional healers) program (also the 2009 Mark Sheldon Prize from the

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(RANZCP) and 2009 Dr Margaret Tobin Award for excellence in the provision of mental health services to those most in need) *2005 Women in Community Policing Award, Australasian Policewomen’s conference, Darwin *2000

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Award to NPY Women’s Council in the Community Sector

References

External links

* {{Indigenous Australians Indigenous Australian politics Organisations serving Indigenous Australians 1980 establishments in Australia