Income Management

Putting restrictions on how people spend their own money wouldn't generally seem acceptable. That's until the Federal Government introduced income management with the NT Intervention.

There's been a lot said about the pros and cons of this scheme and I wont go into that just yet.

But today's article is the first time I've seen any community - indigenous or not - asking for permission to introduce income management. The attached article makes it sound like a 'bad news' story as the locals had a specific version they wanted implemented. But reading between the lines says there are communities who do see income management as part of a solution to community dysfunction, and who are prepared to introduce it to their own communities. That's proactive and it ought to be encouraged.