From handout to handup: Cape York welfare reform project

Aurukun, Coen, Hope Vale, Mossman Gorge - Design recommendations
Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership
The Cape York Welfare Reform Project aims to develop reformed incentives and appropriate enabling supports at the community level which catalyse the restoration of social norms in the Welfare Reform communities and ultimately in the whole Cape York region. The future that the Institute envisages is one in which the people of Cape York Peninsula internalise a set of revitalised social norms, which mandate personal responsibility for work, education and the welfare of children, so that they become free from dependence on passive welfare and so that child neglect and abuse cease.

Where there's life there's Hope

Noel Pearson / Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership
Posted: 06-06-2007

Noel Pearson returns to Hope Vale and finds a stark improvement in conditions in the town since a visit earlier this year. The occasion was a ceremony for signing a new agreement on welfare reform initiatives centering on home ownership, between the Commonwealth government and the Hope Vale community.