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Title Indigenous families and the welfare system : two community case studies / edited by D.E. Smith
Published Canberra : Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU, 2000

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Description xv, 162 pages ; 25 cm
Series CAEPR research monograph, 1036-6962 ; no. 17
Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 17
Contents 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
Analysis Aborigines
Family
Welfare measures
Service delivery
Case studies
Northern Territory
Statistical sources
Social issues & welfare
Australian Aboriginal studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) no:17 1036-6962
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Youth -- Social conditions.
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Government policy -- Case studies.
Child welfare -- Australia -- Case studies.
Children, Aboriginal Australian.
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
Youth, Aboriginal Australian -- Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Child welfare -- Case studies
Aboriginal Australians -- Childhood and youth -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Author Smith, Diane (Diane Evelyn)
Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research.
ISBN 073155101X