Aboriginal Affairs

Aboriginal Affairs NSW works with Aboriginal communities to promote social, economic and cultural well-being through opportunity, choice, healing, responsibility and empowerment.

Aboriginal Affairs NSW implement OCHRE (Opportunity, Choice, Healing, Responsibility, Empowerment). OCHRE is the NSW Government’s community-led plan to strengthen the relationship between government and community.

You can contact Aboriginal Affairs about:

• healing and reparations (Stolen Generations), and Family history
• land rights and self-determination, Closing the Gap, OCHRE
• grants, Strengthening cultural identity, languages and more.

Regional offices

Visit the Aboriginal Affairs Contact us page for details on their regional offices at:

• Greater Sydney – Mascot
• Newcastle
• Illawarra South East region – Batemans Bay
• Greater Wester region –  Bourke, Broken Hill, Dubbo
• Greater Northern region –  Coffs Harbour, Tamworth.