Strategies:
Outstations policy; Aboriginal socio - economic impact study; improved coordination between relevant agencies.
[93] Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to the Office of Indigenous Policy Northern Territory Department of Chief Minister -
Outstations Policy Discussion Paper (15 December 2008), pars 19, 25 - 28.
[6] Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to the Office of Indigenous Policy Northern Territory Department of Chief Minister -
Outstations Policy Discussion Paper (15 December 2008), par 12.
[4] Socom + DodsonLane (D Suggit, P Dodson and P Lane),
Outstations Policy: Community Engagement Report, Northern Territory Government, (2009), p 5.
[12] See also: Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to the Office of Indigenous Policy Northern Territory Department of Chief Minister -
Outstations Policy Discussion Paper (15 December 2008), par 24.
[20] Other useful reports and papers on the homelands movement include: HC Coombs, «Homeland Movement», in HC Coombs, Aboriginal Autonomy (1994); J Altman, In search of
an outstations policy for Indigenous Australians, CAEPR Working Paper 34 (2006).
Avoid demand draft / pay order charges (for
outstation policy premiums) and postage / courier expenses in sending premium to LIC
Not exact matches
The
policy covers the risks of Personal Accident and loss of Baggage of the insured, spouse and dependent children covered during the period of
outstation travel within India from specific places of departure Personal Accident: Risk Up to Rs. 1 lakh per head with reimbursement of reasonable actual emergency incidental expenses up to Rs. 1000 / - per head both as defined in the
policy.
It lacks an evidence base (how else do we explain
policies on issues such as the viability of
outstations and homelands and the obsession with opening up communal land for individual leasehold arrangements that contradict all available evidence?)
However, present federal government
policy towards
outstations is uncertain at best, and has included a moratorium on housing for
outstation and similar communities, as described in Text Box 7 below.
We know for example that for people living on the homelands or
outstations, their health is better — yet the federal government, in tow with the NT government, continues its
policy of seeking to centralise services.
[8] G Marks, Outstation
Policy — how we got from there to here (Paper to the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and Centre for Aboriginal Economic
Policy Research Forum on homelands /
outstations and similar small remote Aboriginal communities across Australia, ANU Canberra, 27 - 28 October 2009), p 3.
[95] Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and Centre for Aboriginal Economic
Policy Research, Communique to the Prime Minister on Homelands /
Outstations (Paper to the Forum on Homelands /
Outstations, Canberra, 27 - 28 October 2009).
In response, the NT Government released its «
Outstations / homelands
policy» in May 2009 (Northern Territory Government, Working Future — fresh ideas / real results: Outstations / Homelands Policy (
policy» in May 2009 (Northern Territory Government, Working Future — fresh ideas / real results:
Outstations / Homelands
Policy (
Policy (2009).