The project research and policy context / Diane Smith -- Research methodology / Anne Daly and Diane Smith -- The Kuranda community case study / Julie Finlayson, Anne Daly and Diane Smith -- The Yuendumu Community Case Study / Yasmine Musharbash -- Kuranda and Yuendumu: comparative conclusions / Diane Smith -- A statistical overview of the two case-study communities / Anne Daly and Tony Auld -- Service delivery issues: key implications and initiatives / Diane Smith -- Policy issues: key implications and initiatives / Diane Smith
Summary
Presents the results of the first year of a community-based longitudinal research project conducted in the Kuranda and Yuendumu communities; identifies culturally-based factors and issues influencing access to and delivery of welfare payments to Indigenous families with children; recommendations for service delivery and policy reform focus on the need to adopt a decentralised community-level service delivery model; family welfare policy; Centrelink payments; statistical comparisons