Awards & Recognition
NT Human Rights Award 2023 – joint winner of Justice Award
NTLEN is announced as joint winners of the Justice category for the 2023 NT Human Rights Awards
On Thursday the 7th of December, we were awarded joint winner of Justice Award at the NT Human Rights Awards – ‘the Fitzgeralds’.
Our award recognizes more than three years of unfunded systems advocacy that we have performed through consultations, surveys, submissions and advocating for our community to have a seat at the ‘tables of decision making’.
We have been determined to create an independent, representative and collective voice for our community. We continue to advocate for the recognition and resourcing of a NT lived experience representative body to inform NT and national level decision making.
Watch our acceptance speech to further understand the importance of our advocacy and the importance of this award to our movement.
Rights on Show 2022 – Judges Award
During 2022, we commenced the “Stories of Healing and Recovery” project, for the purpose of creating visible role models for recovery from mental ill-health and addiction. Using mostly our own funds supplemented by a small grant, we worked with a professional photographer in October 2022 to collect portraits of some of our advocates. This is the first step in a creative project to share local stories of recovery and healing in print and online.
We submitted a collection of portraits of our lived experience advocates to the 2022 Human Rights on Show exhibition and won the Judges Award. Alongside each advocate’s portrait we included our rights, as outlined in the Mental Health Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.
