[1] Around the same time, Neville Perkins and others were setting up the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service (CAALAS), which later became part of NAAJA.

[4] NAAJA received a National Crime Prevention Award in 2012 for its Throughcare program, which works to reduce rates of reoffending in the Northern Territory.

[4] NAAJA's Principal Legal Officer David Woodroffe received the 2017 Law Award from the Australian Human Rights Commission.

[1] NAAJA is the largest legal service in the Northern Territory, with more than 170 full-time staff, of whom 43% are Aboriginal, and which includes 63 solicitors as of July 2019[update].

[8] Priscilla Atkins, who had been CEO for many years, was sacked at the end of 2022, and was suing for wrongful dismissal in 2023.