Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council (GLALC) is one of 120 Local Aboriginal Land Councils in NSW. The objectives of GLALC are governed by the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) and include engaging with Members, promoting Aboriginal culture and heritage, celebrating and educating Aboriginal identity, culture and heritage, providing and managing community benefit schemes and services and providing and sustaining business enterprises and investment. Primary methodologies are land acquisition, creation of a sustainable economic base and preserving and sharing traditional culture, identity and heritage. Currently, GLALC is the largest single landowner in the Sutherland Shire, owns/manages 28 rental properties, 3 business sites and pursues undecided land claims. Claims have been made for a total of 4,700 hectares of land and most claims are yet to be decided. Our membership has grown to more than 780 and the parent body, Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council (GLALC), is the administrative hub of our operations, caring for our assets and supervising our specialised service businesses:Gandangara Health Services Ltd (GHS), Marumali Ltd andGandangara Transport Services Ltd (GTS).The jurisdictional boundaries of the Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council (GLALC) span, in whole or in part, six Local Government Areas in the South Western Sydney region. These include Liverpool, Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown, Parramatta, Cumberland, and the Sutherland Shire.KEEPING OUR SPIRITS STRONGOur name, just like our reputation, does matter. As do our languages, traditions, stories, art, dance and cultural protocols. They all contribute to our personal sense of self, our past, where we came from and where we belong.