Income Management Reduces Gambling Problems
6th December, 2007
Ever since new policy of income management took place in a remote central Austrian Aboriginal community there has been noticed a significant decrease in alcohol and gambling within the residents.
It all changed when citizens of Hermannsburg, west of Alice Springs, were guaranteed 50% of their welfare payment by the former federal government. The government stated their decision to help the people of Hermannsburg last month. This is only one part of the intervention in the Northern Territory that the government has planned.
Mildred Inkamala, a council member, admits to the fact there are still some drinkers left in the community but generally alcohol and gambling problems, both have become less evident and distractive to the people of Hermannsburg.
"We had some problems here with parents drinking, parents gambling with their monies and this intervention it changed a bit for the parents that are the drinkers and the families that gamble a lot with their money and now something has changed a bit," Inkamala explained.
