The Canberra Liberals have vowed to transition control of Boomanulla Oval back to Canberra's Indigenous community and hand the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm to an Aboriginal community controlled organisation.
The opposition would also boost Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Services' funding by $2 million and hand an extra $250,000 to Gugan Gulwan for an expanded tutoring program.
The Liberals would work with the Clontarf Foundation to investigate running a potential academy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in the territory.
The academy would be focused on improving education, life skills and employment prospects of First Nations men.
James Milligan, the Liberals' spokesman on Indigenous affairs, said Boomanulla Oval had significant cultural significance and a Liberal government would look to transition control of the complex back to the Indigenous community.
"We will also work to transfer the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm to an Indigenous controlled organisation, through a tender process, to allow the services to be delivered," Mr Milligan said.
ACT Labor promised to return Boomanulla Oval to community control before the 2016 election and again in 2020. Established in 1984, the oval's lease was passed back to the ACT government in 2014 after the corporation that managed it was wound up. The government in 2018 rejected a plan to return the oval to Indigenous control.
Ahead of this month's election, Labor has promised to work with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body to establish an interim management committee for Boomanulla Oval ahead of returning it to community control.
"We'll work in partnership with community to deliver residential services at the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm and transition the service to community control," Labor has said.
The Liberals were last week criticised by Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation, who said it was disappointing the Canberra Liberals could not provide their policy in time for it to be assessed for a scorecard comparing candidates running in the territory election.
The group, known as ANTAR, said the Greens had scored the best, with commitments in most priority areas, followed by ACT Labor. The group said it would assess the Liberals' policy when it was released.
Opposition Leader Elizabeth Lee has twice needed to defend her party's record on Indigenous affairs during the election campaign.
Ms Lee last week stood by candidate Darren Roberts, who used a nom de plume to endorse Facebook posts that described the Voice referendum as a "sham" and called for a "push back" against Indigenous reconciliation efforts.
The Opposition Leader said Mr Roberts' views were not her own or those of the party and he would remain a Liberal candidate.
Peter Cain, the shadow attorney-general and member for Ginninderra, also apologised for a 2002 primary school workbook he wrote which said Aboriginal people had been "blessed" by the arrival of British colonists.
"I wholeheartedly apologise for any offence given," Mr Cain told The Guardian.
"My own understanding of First Nations history and culture has developed considerably in the over two decades since the student workbook was authored and published."
