Community Service Assessment 2022

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Introduction
Number of indigenous organisations in urban rural and remote regions is successfully
managing a wide range of programs and services in support of their communities. Since
the1970s, indigenous communities in Australia have been playing significant roles in
building community controlled services in domains like local government, housing, welfare,
services community and health (Teece, 2017). The increasing Government support for
indigenous organisations for managing initiatives and services still continues and involves
several local communities as well as national representative agencies across the nation. The
following paper will discuss the functional purpose ideology behind the chosen community
organisation for the Aboriginal and Torres islanders (ATSI).
Discussion
Functioning purpose of ANTaR
The purpose of the ANTaR is to work with the ATSI organizations, representatives
and leaders on privileges, rights and settlement issues since the 1970s. The core purpose of
the organisation is to establish associations with other agencies and across other divisions in
support of shared goals and objectives (ANTaR, 2020). The functional purpose of ANTaR is
to “engage, educate and mobilise a broad community movement to advocate for justice,
rights and respect for Australia's First Peoples" (ANTaR, 2020). Its current priorities are to
inform the inclusive community regarding reconciliation through the organization’s Sea of
Hands program.
Theoretical underpinnings of ANTaR’s purpose
Effective engagement is considered as a sustained procedure which offers Indigenous
communities in Australia with opportunities to enthusiastically make dynamic participation in
decision making process from the initial stage of describing the issue to be explained.
Indigenous participation maintains its existence in the development of policies as well as the

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programs besides projects which are planned to implement them as well as the assessment of
outcomes (Robeyns, 2017). From the founding purpose of ANTaR it is understood that the
organization which stands for Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation primarily
functions as a small, self-governing organisation signifying a common undertaking of
Australians in backing of righteousness, privileges and veneration for the Indigenous
communities of Australia. By drawing relevance to ANTaR’s purposes and key precedence it
can be understood that the theoretical underpinnings of the organization can be linked to
capability theory (ANTaR, 2020). In accordance to the capability theory, ANTaR understands
the rational that shapes Indigenous adoptions in addition to the significance of cultural and
social values of empathy towards their sense of welfare. Australian Torres and Islanders have
been participating in ANTaR as they have they developed the understanding of the link
between what ANTaR is proposing, as well as ways in which these purposes and functioning
of the community organization will improve their individual sense of health safety and
welfare. This necessitates significant discourse in which Aboriginal public can place their
genuine ‘voice’, where they have a scope to comprehensively understand the discussions and
consultations taking place (Nielsen, 2015). ANTaR has given Aboriginal Australians the time
and scope to make significant and critical consideration of concepts and development of
agreement, thus giving an avenue for development of mutual understanding between the
organization and ATIS. Such a comprehensive functioning has led to ‘shared understandings
as well as agreements to bring relevant resolutions to the intricacies and challenges ATIS
experiences and ways in which their safety values are to be reinforced in contemporary
settings. Comprehensive studies have shed light on range of values and principles which are
important for effective engagement (Altman & Hawke, 2018). These engagements have been
successfully identified and acknowledged through cultural heterogeneity, respect of
affiliation, open communications, suitable openings for discussion and negotiations in