Informing a National Quality Framework: Consultations with homeless Aboriginal people in Darwin regarding service provision

The Commonwealth, States and Territories are working together to progress the development of a national quality framework (NQF) to achieve better outcomes for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness by improving the quality and integration of services they receive. In September 2009, all Australian Housing Ministers agreed to progress the development of the NQF through a national consultation process.
As one part of this consultation process, the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs commissioned the Consultant Author to gather and analyse the views of 31 homeless Aboriginal people staying in the Darwin area (referred to locally as staying in the Long Grass).