SRAs and RPAs Website

Shared Responsibility Agreements

You can find information about all signed SRAs here.

What are Shared Responsibility Agreements?

• SRAs are agreements between governments and Indigenous communities.
• They are entirely voluntary and are developed where Indigenous people and communities decide they want to address specific priorities.
• In return for discretionary benefits from government, communities make some specific commitments in order to achieve their identified goals.
• The community decides the issues or priorities it wants to address, how it wants to address them and what it will do in return for government investment.
• SRAs set out what families, communities, governments and other partners will contribute to address local priorities and the outcomes to be achieved.
• The Government is not placing conditions on the delivery of essential services - SRAs do not affect Indigenous people’s access to benefits or services available to all Australians.
• SRAs are just one element of the Government’s overall approach to improving outcomes for Indigenous people, which also includes harnessing mainstream programs and working cooperatively with State and Territory Governments to achieve better service delivery.

When you read the attached SRAs, please note the following:

• SRAs have evolved over time.
• No two SRAs are identical.
• The more recent SRAs will usually contain more robust mutual obligations and performance information than the earlier ones.
• SRAs have a Header Agreement which contains similar information for all of them – click here to view a general Header Agreement.
• SRAs also have a Schedule(s) which provides details on each party's responsibility and commitment under the SRA.

View the SRA Schedules (current as at August 2007)

View map of communities which have signed SRAs (PDF - 852 Kb) (current as at August 2006)