The latest funding round of the Aboriginals Benefit Account is delivering $43.9 million for 36 community-led projects across the Northern Territory.

The Aboriginals Benefit Account (ABA) under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, collects and distributes royalties generated from mining on Aboriginal land.

Thirty-four organisations have been successful in their bid to deliver economic development, employment opportunities and important infrastructure for communities.

The range of projects to receive funding includes:

The latest funding round of the Aboriginals Benefit Account is delivering $43.9 million for 36 community-led projects across the Northern Territory.

The Aboriginals Benefit Account (ABA) under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, collects and distributes royalties generated from mining on Aboriginal land.

Thirty-four organisations have been successful in their bid to deliver economic development, employment opportunities and important infrastructure for communities.

The range of projects to receive funding includes:

A significant achievement has been reached for Anindilyakwa Traditional Owners across the Groote Archipelago in the Northern Territory, with the formal transfer of the Groote Eylandt Township Lease to the Anindilyakwa Royalties Aboriginal Corporation (ARAC).

This is the first time a Township Lease in the Northern Territory has been transferred from the Commonwealth Executive Director of Township Leasing (Executive Director) to a Traditional Owner Corporation and represents an important milestone for all Township Leasing stakeholders.

A significant achievement has been reached for Anindilyakwa Traditional Owners across the Groote Archipelago in the Northern Territory, with the formal transfer of the Groote Eylandt Township Lease to the Anindilyakwa Royalties Aboriginal Corporation (ARAC).

This is the first time a Township Lease in the Northern Territory has been transferred from the Commonwealth Executive Director of Township Leasing (Executive Director) to a Traditional Owner Corporation and represents an important milestone for all Township Leasing stakeholders.

As part of the Australian Government’s commitment to international repatriation, the remains of 18 First Nations ancestors from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum in the United Kingdom will return home to Australia.

The ancestors were returned at a handover ceremony in Oxford. One Old Person has been returned to the custodianship of the South East First Nations people of South Australia, while the Australian Government has taken stewardship of 17 ancestors so they can be cared for closer to home.

PATRICK GORMAN, ASSISTANT MINISTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER: Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister and someone who is very excited that today we will vote on the Secure Jobs, Better Pay bill. This is the plan that Labor took to the election to make sure that working Australians get the pay rise that they deserve. We know that for so long working Australians been working harder and harder, haven't been getting the pay increases that they have well and truly earned. And for many Australians, the enterprise bargaining system is not working for them.

Dust, drinks and gold fever filled the cold hall in Coolgardie where the Western Australian Labor Party was founded on the afternoon of 11 April 1899.

Not one woman was amongst the 28 men who formed what is now the Western Australian Labor Party.

They would not have imagined that 123 years later the party they founded would send a majority of women parliamentarians to a place called Canberra as part of a Federal Labor Government.

I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land on which we gather, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people.

I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

And I extend that respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with us here this evening.

It is a privilege to represent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his government here tonight.

The Prime Minister extends his best wishes as you celebrate the Deepavali festival.

ALEX CULLEN, HOST: Well for a deeper understanding on how the Medibank hack is impacting West Aussies, I want to bring in Federal Member for Perth, Patrick Gorman. Patrick, good morning, thank you for being with us. We know hundreds of thousands of West Aussies have been impacted by this. They're angry and so they should be, but what's the Government doing to help those affected?

The Albanese Labor Government has delivered on its election commitment, committing $5 million over five years through the Women in Public Office grant opportunity to boost gender equality and diversity in Australian politics.

Under the Women’s Leadership and Development Program, the Women in Public Office grant opportunity will support organisations to equip and encourage more women across the political spectrum to run for public office at local, state and federal levels.