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Monday 8:30am - 12:30pm 2:30pm - 5:30pm Tuesday 8:30am - 12:30pm 2:30pm - 5:30pm Wednesday 8:30am - 12:30pm 2:30pm - 5:30pm Thursday 8:30am - 12:30pm Friday 8:30am - 12:30pm 2:30pm - 5:30pm

Ampilatwatja Health Centre Aboriginal Corporation

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Ampilatwatja Health Centre Aboriginal Corporation

We work closely with other health professionals to provide quality service.

Ampilatwatja Health Centre provides culturally appropriate & sensitive health service to the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander community that is safe, secure and accessible.

12/11/2025

We at Ampilatwatja Health Centre welcomed our Directors Geoffrey and Tony Morton to the Ampilatwatja Clinic to check out its makeover. A big thanks to Kim and the maintenance team for all your hard work.

07/11/2025

A big thank you to all the young ones that helped , and to the AHC Board, for leading the recent community clean up day

30/09/2025

To all the children who helped clean up Ampilatwatja on Thursday, before the Sports Carnival - thank you! Participants received a store voucher for every 5 bags of rubbish, and enjoyed a BBQ and live band after all their hard work - we appreciate your efforts!

28/09/2025

Meet Amy Ampilatwatja - our new Virtual Assistant. Connect with Amy on Facebook Messenger, and we will send you updates and reminders for upcoming appointments.

27/09/2025

Our Healing Centre team have been busy sorting and distributing clothes donated by Thread Together. Peter Morton looking very dapper in his new jacket

25/09/2025

Meet our patient, Lara, who is trying out our new Smileyscope🌟. Smileyscope is a virtual reality headset that helps patients relax during procedures. Smileyscope has a range of experiences which combined with music therapy can assist with patient anxiety during procedures. You can swim with the sealions, zen out on a beach, or relax by a lake. If you are feeling a little worried, ask one of our nurses about Smileyscope on your next visit to the Centre.🌊

19/09/2025

Maintenance Mel has been busy this week repairing the clinic blue Emergency phone

If you have a medical emergency and need to speak to a nurse - come to the clinic and press the red button to talk to a nurse

13/09/2025

Supporters and players are looking forward to a great day - Go Ammaroo Green Birds!

11/09/2025

Drop by the Healing Centre on Saturday between 9:30am and 3:30pm to see the Deadly Hair Dude and get your Supporter 'Do to cheer on the Amaroo Green Birds!

09/09/2025

Good luck to the AMMAROO GREEN BIRDS! With support like this, you are almost guaranteed a win!

09/09/2025

Huge thanks to Ampilatwatja Health staff & community members for a successful cleanup day! 🎉 The celebration continues with live music at the school grounds until 6:30pm tonight!

05/09/2025

Our maintenance team are honing their skills - crafting fire pits to bring people together, and giving the Health Centre a fresh new look! Their work demonstrates positive change and looks great! 💫

Address

64 South Street Ampilatwatja
Alice Springs, NT
0872

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 12:30pm
	2:30pm - 5:30pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 12:30pm
	2:30pm - 5:30pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 12:30pm
	2:30pm - 5:30pm
Thursday	8:30am - 12:30pm
Friday	8:30am - 12:30pm
	2:30pm - 5:30pm

Telephone

+61889569942

Website

https://www.ampilatwatja.com.au/

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Our History

Ampilatwatja is in the heart of Alyawarr country on the Sandover Highway. The Alyawarr people have always lived there and would travel between soaks (water sources) in the hot weather. The people of this region also have close ties to the people who live at Alpurrurulam (Lake Nash), and early in the days of European settlement they would walk to Alpurrurulam to collect rations of food and to***co. In the 1990s, with the return of Utopia Station to traditional ownership, the Alyawarra people of Ampilatwatja made a claim for their traditional homelands.

Ampilatwatja is the cultural heartland of the Alyawarra nation with art an important expression of the Alyawarra people’s connection with the land. Local artists are said to “exude a complex and progressive approach to depicting the traditional knowledge of dreaming and country through the translation of water holes and soakages, bush medicines and bush tuckers, mountains, sand hills and ant hills”. Their artworks retain the heritage and feature the cultural history and values of Alyawarra lore.

The first European in the region was Charles Winnecke, a surveyor, who passed through in 1877. Although the Alyawarra people were shy of the Europeans, Winnecke’s expedition needed the help of the local people to find water in the desert.

Freehold title leases were granted by the federal government around 1910 to establish cattle stations on Alyawarra land in an attempt to bring white settlers & development to the centre of Australia. The lands traditional owners were coerced to move from culturally significant sites & also lost rites to hunting grounds to make way for the grazing cattle. The resultant Ammaroo Station became a gathering place for the Alywarra people by the sixties & seventies where many worked as drovers & fencers. In 1976 under the Native Titles Act Alyawarra families were granted a small plot at an area known then as Honeymoon Bore, about ten kilometres from Ammaroo Station. This small settlement is what has now developed in to the community of Ampilatwatja.

In the 1990’s the traditional owners of the area gained small excisions from the local pastoral lease to continue their life on their land. Ampilatwatja is the cultural heartland of the Alywarr nation. There are three outstations with the main ones being Irrultja 60km away and Atnwengerrp 40km away. With few exceptions, all the Aboriginal people living at Ampilatwatja belong to the Alywarra language group. Their country extends over some 17,000 kM2 and through the pastoral properties of Ammaroo, Murray Downs, Elkedra, Derry Downs, Utopia, Lake Nash and Urandangie. Alywarra is further divided into a number of smaller units called “countries”. The Amperiatwatye people are from Aherrenge country which spans three cattle stations, Ammaroo, Derry Downs and Elkedra.

In 1940, the land around Ampilatwatja was taken up by settler John ‘Nugget’ Morton, who is connected to the Coniston Massacre of Aboriginal people in 1928. The resultant Ammaroo Station became a gathering place for Alyawarre people in the ‘60s and ‘70s where many worked as drovers and fencers. In 1976 under the Native Titles Act Alyawarra families were granted a small plot at an area then known as Honeymoon Bore, about 10km from Ammaroo Station. This small settlement is what has now developed into the community of Ampilatwatja. In the 1990s the traditional owners gained small excisions from the local pastoral lease to continue their life on the land.

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