Northern Territory: Cuts To Welfare Payments For School Non-Attendance - Requested Or Imposed?

Northern Territory: Cuts To Welfare Payments For School Non-Attendance - Requested Or Imposed? Michele Harris and Rosa McKenna, 2011   This paper raises a number of questions about the interpretation of consultations with Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory concerning the link between cuts to welfare payments and school non-attendance. The Federal Government’s recent report, Stronger Futures Report on Consultations, is based on the belief that Aboriginal people support the...

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