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Healthy Dreaming, Port Augusta

Port Augusta, SA

Aboriginal Community CouncilPublic record

A cultural-connection justice reinvestment initiative in Port Augusta, South Australia. Lead organisation to confirm.

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Impact on the record

What the public record shows

Every figure carries the source it came from and a label for what kind of figure it is, so an evaluated outcome is never confused with a projection, a background number, or a figure from a related program. Most sites here were funded in the 2024 and 2025 Commonwealth rounds, and the first evaluations under the national framework begin from late 2026. An empty panel is an honest early-stage record, not a failure.

No evaluated outcomes are on the public record for this site yet. This is expected for an establishment-stage initiative. What we can show today is its programs, the people leading it, and the funding attached to the lead organisation. When the site publishes its own figures, each will appear here with its source.

The ledger in plain view

Funding on record (lead organisation)

$4,930,280

Cost of detaining one child for a year

$1,300,000

ROGS 2026 national average

Equivalent child-years of detention

4

This is funding recorded against the lead organisation, not the site-specific federal allocation, which governments publish only as national envelopes. The comparison sets what a community receives against the price of a single cell, so the question moves from whether to fund the community to why we still fund the cell.

  • $1,782,359qgip
  • $545,000qgip
  • $440,000qgip
  • $399,600qgip
  • $391,191qgip
  • $337,500qgip
  • $284,186qgip
  • $190,936qgip
  • $164,821qgip
  • $140,000qgip
  • $129,687qgip
  • $125,000qld-historical-grants

What runs here

Programs and approaches

Healthy Dreaming - Port Augusta

Cultural connection justice reinvestment initiative

The lead organisation also supports

  • Aboriginal Community Care SA

    Provides housing in the Elders Village for Aboriginal people who need daily support and care. They also provide short-term care so that carers can have a break.

The people

Who leads the work

We do not name individuals here until the community chooses to. At remote and survivor-led sites, naming people without community sign-off, or where Sorry Business may apply, is unsafe. When the site claims this page, it decides who is named and how.

About this page

This is a public record built from sources in the open, not yet a profile the community holds. Aboriginal Community Council is the editor of record once it claims this page. When a site claims it, the community decides what the world sees, names its own people, publishes its own figures, and shares photos of its work with consent. We can stage a page. The community publishes it.

Help complete this record

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