This paper looks some of the impacts of legislative change, the Australian Federal government intervention and other political policies and the way they have impacted on driver training and licensing programs in remote areas of the Northern Territory from a practitioners point of view. It further looks at the long term social costs some of these well meaning policies have on marginalised community groups such as the indigenous people in the Northern Territory, how not having a license can have a roll on effect on road safety outcomes and overall disfunctionality, loss of empowerment and community disengagement. This paper also looks at issues confronting indigenous people in their struggle to gain a driver license, how some of these policy issues fly in the face of previous lessons learnt when trying to empower and engage indigenous people rather creating yet more barriers. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E217329.
Samenvatting