Giving credit where it's due : the delivery of banking and financial services to indigenous Australians in rural and remote areas / S. McDonnell and N. Westbury
Published
Canberra : Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, 2001
Considers recent policy responses to changes in the Australian financial sector, which have resulted in reduced access to financial services for Indigenous peoples in rural and remote regions; establishment of credit unions, community banks, electronic service provision, and rural transaction centres as possible solutions to recent bank closures and the lack of access to credit; a brief case study of six towns in Queensland and New South Wales illustrates the importance of face-to-face banking services; specific problems faced by Indigenous people in the Barwon-Darling region
