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ATSIC Army Community Assistance Program, Cape York

29 July 2004

AACAP is the ATSIC Army Community Assistance Program, a cooperative program between Army, ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission) and the Department of Health and Ageing. The initiative was announced by the Australian Government in 1996, and is still going strong. The purpose of AACAP is to form a partnership to assist in the delivery of housing and infrastructure, as well as health services and training to remote Aboriginal communities. AACAP 04 is working in the Northern Peninsula Area of Cape York, Far North Queensland providing capital works – including a new subdivision, building houses, house pads and a regional waste facility and services to the Aboriginal communities of Injinoo, Umagico and New Mapoon.