Urapuntja Aboriginal Corporation is the Peak Body representing the people living on 16 Homelands located 250kms north-east of Alice Springs on the Alyawarra and Angarapa Aboriginal Land Trust (which covers 3,250 square kilometres). Prior to the amalgamation of smaller councils into the Shire framework on 1 July 2008, Urapuntja Aboriginal Corporation provided all local government services and a range of other community services to over 1,200 people living on the Homelands.