Meeting Challenges, Making Choices
The Queensland Government and Indigenous communities are working together to address a range of issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland through 'Meeting Challenges, Making Choices' (MCMC).
Nine priority areas have been chosen to guide communities and the Queensland Government, to improve the quality of life in Queensland's discrete mainland Indigenous communities. They are:
- Alcohol intervention
- Governance
- Crime and Justice
- Children, Young people and Families
- Health
- Education and Training
- Economic Development
- Land and Sustainable Natural Resource Management
- Housing
Under the program, alcohol laws have been introduced into 19 communities across the state. The laws apply to all people and differ for each community. For further information about alcohol restrictions, visit the MCMC website or phone the Alcohol Management Program information line on 1300 789 000.
Aboriginal community governance
Information about the Local Government (Community Government Areas) Act 2004 and access to related documents and papers are available from the Indigenous Councils page on the Department of Local Government, Sport and Recreation website.
For more information about Meeting Challenges, Making Choices, visit the Queensland Government MCMC website.
Last updated: 07 April 2008.