New commitments for 2025 include:

  • Reduce the costs of 30 essential products in more than 76 remote stores to help ease cost of living pressures and improve food security in remote communities.
  • Build a nutrition workforce in remote communities by upskilling up to 120 local First Nations staff in remote stores.
  • Roll out new laundries or upgrade existing facilities in 12 remote First Nations communities, to help improve long-term health outcomes.
  • Strengthen the Indigenous Procurement Policy to boost opportunities for First Nations businesses to grow and create jobs.
  • Increase opportunities for First Nations Australians to buy their own home and build intergenerational wealth through a boost to Indigenous Business Australia’s Home Loan Capital Fund.
  • Establish a place-based business coaching and mentoring program for First Nations businesswomen and entrepreneurs.
  • Increase the availability of culturally safe and qualified mental health support including scholarships for up to 150 First Nations psychology students.
  • Continue to deliver critical prevention, early intervention and response services to address family, domestic and sexual violence in high need First Nations communities.
  • Extend the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme for an additional two years to support Stolen Generations survivors.
  • Continue digitisation of at-risk audio and video collections held by First Nations broadcasters and community organisations by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.