🎤2025 Keynote Speaker Announced
Reflecting our 2025 theme, “Being at Home in the NT,” we are delighted to welcome Peter McMillan as the Keynote Speaker for this year’s Awards Ceremony.
Peter McMillan has more than 35 years’ experience in executive and senior management roles across manufacturing, mining, regional development and housing. He has lived and worked in communities across Australia, from the Illawarra and Melbourne to Groote Eylandt, Bathurst and Darwin.
Over the past 11 years, Peter has been Chief Executive Officer of two peak bodies, including eight years at NT Shelter. His tenure culminated in a successful advocacy effort to secure needs-based funding for frontline specialist homelessness services – a significant outcome for the sector and the people it supports.
Peter’s leadership is underpinned by a strong commitment to collaboration, evidence-based decision making and effective policy advocacy. Above all, he helps organisations and communities strengthen their impact through data-led insights and storytelling to make a real difference.
Image: Peter McMillan
🎉2025 Theme Announced
We’re excited to announce the theme for the 2025 NT Human Rights Awards:
✨Being at Home in the NT✨
This year’s theme invites us to see home not only as a place of shelter—but as a place of welcome. A true home is where everyone belongs, no matter their gender, sexuality, faith, race, culture, disability, age, or visa status. It is a place where people are not just housed, but seen, safe, and valued for who they are.
As the NT faces housing pressures and population challenges, this theme calls us to build communities that actively embrace diversity and protect the rights of those who are too often pushed to the margins. Strengthening our Territory means strengthening our commitment to inclusion—because a just and thriving NT is one where no one is left out or left behind.
The awards will recognise those whose actions—large and small—provide homes not just of brick and mortar, but of community, connection and hope. The awards are about extraordinary people doing extraordinary work to make the NT home for everyone.