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The Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership is working in partnership with the Australian government, the Queensland government and the Cape York Indigenous communities of Aurukun, Coen, Hope Vale and Mossman Gorge with the objective of achieving comprehensive welfare reform.
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.
If the policies recommended by the Institute in this report are supported, then a trial should proceed in the four communities. The objective of the trial should be to test the policy principles described in this report. If the trial is successful, the policy principles may be used to inform policy across Cape York Peninsula and potentially in other regions.
