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1973
* The Interim Central Australian Aboriginal Rights Council establishes Central Australian Aborigines Congress.
Membership fee is 50¢
* Congress model for community-controlled health service is presented to the Commonwealth Minister for Health
* DAA funding commenced $16 000 pa
* Sharing office with Legal Aid Service
1974
* New Office Parsons Street
* Incorporated under the NT Associations Incorporation Ordinance (1963)
1975
* Dr Cutter commences work on Community Development Alternative Health Model project
* $30 000 from DAA to establish a pick-up service and night shelter
* $34 500 from DAA for tents for fringe dwellers.Two hundred tents purchased and field officer employed
* Report on Aboriginal living conditions in Alice Springs released
* Patient bus service started
* Name changed to Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (Inc)
* Congress moves into the Hartley Street premises, a big old house, and commences health service delivery. Clinic named ‘Njarlka’, meaning Caterpillar Dreaming
1976
* Congress buys farm on Emily Gap Road and establishes an alcohol rehabilitation centre
* Welfare section established
* 7000 Aboriginal people had used the clinic in the preceding year
* Dr Cutter Alternative Health Model Report completed
1977
* Congress Night Shelter supports over 400 people per day (hot meals, shelter and food) and a total of over 1000 people during heavy wet-weather period
* Congress affiliates to FCAATSI
* Congress calls for an enquiry into relations between police and Aboriginals
* Bus service and nutrition program for school children
* Papunya community requests Congress to take over the hospital and run their medical service
* Utopia Angarappa Health Service established with Congress auspicing monies
* Pitjantjatjara Homelands Health Service (Pipalyatjara) is established
1978
* Lyappa Congress operating at Papunya
* Fringe Camp Health Program Report developed and endorsed
1980
* Dental Clinic starts
* The medical Clinic handles 20 000 patient contacts in a year
1981
* Family Support Program targeting underweight children
* Childcare centre established in Bath Street
1983
* Settle Down Country published
* Pintupi Homelands Health Service begins with Congress assistance
* Congress assists in establishing Nganampa Health Service
1984
* Funding received for research program
* Congress Alukura and Congress holds birthrights conference for Aboriginal women
* Congress staff protest outside DAA in car park because of lack of resources to continue the medical service
1986
* March in support of Northern Territory Land Rights Act
1987
* Alukura pilot program commences on women's health. A council is established with members from town and bush
* Publication of All that Rama Rama Mob report on Aboriginal mental health
* In August Alukura moves into Aboriginal Hostels premises in Mueller Street
1988
* Congress staff travel to Sydney to take part in protests against the Bicentennial celebrations
* Congress moves into Gap Road premises
1990
* Aboriginal Housing Information and Referral Service begins
* Purchase of the McLeod's Store, or the Red Shop – NT Government refuses to buy back alcohol licence, so all alcohol is poured down the drain in protest. New shop opens selling healthy food
1991
* Opening of Apme-kenhe Apmere Childcare Centre
1992
* Alukura relocates to new premises in Percy Court
* The Adventures of Cuz Congress video released
1993
* Town Camp Program changes to the Community Health Program to broaden the area of service provision
1994
* Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT (federation of Aboriginal communitycontrolled health services) established
1995
* Aboriginal health funding body changes from ATSIC to Commonwealth Department of Health
* National accreditation of CAAC Aboriginal Health Worker Training
1996
* Congress, as part of AMSANT, attends the United Nation Working Group on Indigenous Population in Geneva and presents the Australian paper on Aboriginal Health. Delegation also holds discussions with the WHO
* Report Living on Medicine released
1997
* Congress establishes the Male Health Program
* Congress Alukura hosts Women’s Health Confest for three days, over 700 women attend
* Congress as a corefounding members establishes the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health
* Social and Emotional Health Branch established
1998
* The Central Australian Aboriginal Health Planning Committee established
* The NT Framework Agreement in Aboriginal Health comes into effect
* Congress organises Youth Forum
* Congress co-hosts, with AMSANT and CLC, the Ilpurla Aboriginal Health Summit
* Living on Medicine and On the Machine published
* Youth Outreach Team established
* Social and Emotional Health Branch moves into Gap Road (old Arrernte Council) premises
2001
* Congress organises the Central Australian Indigenous Youth Summit at Ross River
* The Clinic achieves accreditation with the Australian General Practice Accreditation Ltd
2002
* Birthing Agreement signed between Alukura and Alice Springs Hospital
* The video Cover Your Tracks released
* Clinic redevelopment commences
2003
* Clinic re-development completed
30 th Anniversary