❓ A parliamentary question regarding the Country High School Hostel Authority Redress Scheme (CHSHA), specifically focusing on notification, application numbers, demographics, and distribution of successful applicants, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The answer reveals limitations in data collection regarding Indigenous status.
AnsweredQoN 2146Legislative Council
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I refer to the Country High School Hostel Authority Redress Scheme (CHSHA), and ask: (a) how were eligible locations for the CHSHA notified to the public while that scheme was open for applications; (b) what was the total number of successful applications to the CHSHA; (c) what was the distribution of successful applicants: (i) by postcode; and (ii) by region; (d) how many of the successful applicants identified themselves in their application as: (i) an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person; (ii) a non-Aboriginal person; and (iii) unspecified/other; and (e) what was the distribution of successful Aboriginal applicants: (i) by postcode; and (ii) by region?
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Answered
3 December 2014
Responded by
Minister for Mental Health representing the Minister for Community Services
Response time
41 days
(a) The Country High School Hostels Ex-Gratia Scheme was the subject of a comprehensive communications strategy implemented between November 2012 and May 2013. It included:
· newspaper advertisements in all Australian capital city newspapers and all regional WA newspapers;
· radio advertisements on regional WA commercial radio stations;
· interviews on ABC regional radio;
· letters to all relevant State and Federal Government agencies and local governments;
· letters to relevant non-government organisations and peak medical bodies;
· a dedicated website with Guidelines, Application Form and Frequently Asked Questions; and
· emails to all those who had been in contact with the St Andrew's Hostel Special Inquiry.
Print and online media listed the 28 eligible locations in 12 towns.
(b) Ninety
(c) (i)-(ii) [see tabled paper no.]
(d) (i)-(iii) The Application Form did not ask applicants to specify whether they identified as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person. Hence, this information was not collected.
(e) (i)-(ii) See (d) above.
· newspaper advertisements in all Australian capital city newspapers and all regional WA newspapers;
· radio advertisements on regional WA commercial radio stations;
· interviews on ABC regional radio;
· letters to all relevant State and Federal Government agencies and local governments;
· letters to relevant non-government organisations and peak medical bodies;
· a dedicated website with Guidelines, Application Form and Frequently Asked Questions; and
· emails to all those who had been in contact with the St Andrew's Hostel Special Inquiry.
Print and online media listed the 28 eligible locations in 12 towns.
(b) Ninety
(c) (i)-(ii) [see tabled paper no.]
(d) (i)-(iii) The Application Form did not ask applicants to specify whether they identified as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person. Hence, this information was not collected.
(e) (i)-(ii) See (d) above.
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