Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi Aboriginal Corporation was established:
In recognition of the severe sickness, poverty, helplessness and distress
experienced by Central Australian Aboriginal people as a result of dispossession
of traditional lands, cultural disintegration and social and economic
marginalisation.
The following are the objects of Waltja's Constitution:
To provide appropriate transportation, sporting, communications,
health and disability, education and homemaker services to relieve the
severe economic disadvantage and social, emotional and spiritual well
being issues experienced by Central Australian people. This includes
substance misuse, child protection issues, and all forms of violence
including suicide and clinical mental illnesses.
To provide administrative and related resources and programs
to develop members of the Central Australian community's capacity for
self-management and self-determination.
Facilitate community participation in the planning, management
provision and evaluation of community based services in the Central
Australian Region.
To secure the provision of training, employment and related
programs to alleviate chronic unemployment experienced by Central Australian
people.
To represent the views of Central Australia families, from children
to the elderly, to arrest cultural disintegration within the Central
Australian community.
To provide and promote opportunities for members' cultural expression
to arrest disintegration within the Central Australian community.
To undertake measures necessary to improve race relations and
counter racial vilification, alleviate the social distress experiences
by Central Australian people.
To provide resources, administrative and related support to
members in the establishment of initiatives and organisations, the objectives
of which will reduce the levels of sickness, poverty, helplessness and
distress experienced by Central Australian people.
Identify opportunities and needs for the enhancement or extension
of community based services to relieve the reliance on Alice Springs
services.