Consultation
Below is a summary of the seven State Government commitments around consultation over the remainder of 2016 as part of the reform process. The State Government will consult:
Better Living Conditions
- Remote communities about future essential and municipal service delivery arrangements in accordance with the principles set out in the roadmap.
- Reserve residents, native title holders or applicants, and other stakeholders about how best to achieve the Government’s policy of ensuring that residents of town based reserves receive the same services and opportunities, and are subject to the same responsibilities, as other residents of the relevant town.
- On land tenure arrangements in remote Aboriginal communities as part of its consultation on essential and municipal services, and to ascertain how tenure change could facilitate further economic or social development.
Supporting Families
- In key locations and communities about the willingness to:
- participate in a place-based reorientation of government services to respond more effectively to local need and enable better local outcomes
- participate in implementing new, family-centred models of service delivery
- trial a community-based model for prenatal, postnatal and early childhood development.
- With and support Aboriginal communities that wish to reduce harm from alcohol.
More Opportunities
- With schools and communities in the Kimberley about their willingness to participate in the Kimberley Schools Project.
- With Aboriginal organisations and communities about the location of new transitional housing, and potential improvements to the current models of transitional housing.
Community-based and stakeholder consultation will focus on the Pilbara and Kimberley, which are the initial regions for regional services reform. However, feedback is welcome from any organisation or person.
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