Welfare tough love works as quarantining parent payments cuts indigenous truancy (The Australian)

30 Sep Welfare tough love works as quarantining parent payments cuts indigenous truancy (The Australian)

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson’s tough welfare reforms in Cape York, which financially punish the parents of children who repeatedly miss school, have dramatically boosted attendance rates.  A report to be tabled today in Queensland parliament shows that school attendance in one of the nation’s most troubled Aboriginal communities, Aurukun, has almost doubled since the introduction last year of the Family Responsibilities Commission in four Cape York communities… go to article