June Oscar AO, has been presented with the Desmond Tutu reconciliation award by former Australian Governor General, Dame Quentin Bryce.

The award is hosted by the Australian-initiated organisation Global Reconciliation, which seeks to promote reconciliation around the world.

It was awarded to Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi in 2013.

"It was a very humbling experience," Ms Oscar told Fiona Poole on ABC Kimberley radio.

"Standing alongside the 2013 recipient Aung San Suu Kyi, a woman that I greatly admire."

Ms Oscar is a Bunuba woman who has worked with her community in the Kimberley town of Fitzroy Crossing to stem the damage caused by alcohol and disadvantage.

"This is definitely a community-reconstruction journey we're on and it feels good, it feels right," she said.

Ms Oscar, along with Emily Carter and other Fitzroy Crossing women, successfully lobbied for alcohol restrictions in their town in 2007 that have helped reduce rates of domestic violence and incidents of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

"We can, in this day and age, stand up and say we are no longer accepting of some of these things," Ms Oscar said.

"The way in which alcohol has devastated communities, and how that has been allowed to happen is absolutely unacceptable."

Ms Oscar is using the opportunity provided by receiving the reconciliation award to try and direct more attention to Indigenous issues in the 2016 federal election campaign.

"It's politicians' and everyone's business to become properly informed and make informed decisions," she said.

"And the way they do that is they engage across communities."

This article was originally sourced from ABC News and was written by Ben Collins.