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Improving Driver Licensing Programs for Indigenous Road Users and Transitioning Learnings to Other User Groups
  • Publication no: AP-R594-19
  • ISBN: 978-1-925671-93-3
  • Published: 10 January 2019

Lack of appropriate access to driver licensing services is a barrier to employment, economic participation and access to government and non-government services by Indigenous people and other road user groups.

This project provides:

  • service design proposals to mitigate licensing barriers to increase licence ownership and retention among Indigenous and other road users; and
  • a proposed minimum data set and data sharing arrangement to inform the development and delivery of best practice driver licensing services for Indigenous and other road users.
  • Summary
  • 1.  Introduction
    • 1.1    Introduction and Background
    • 1.2    Methodology
  • 2. Literature Review
    • 2.1    International Literature
    • 2.2    Australian Literature
      • 2.2.1      Introduction
      • 2.2.2      Transport Disadvantage
      • 2.2.3      Road Safety Outcomes
      • 2.2.4      Licence-related Interaction with the Justice System
      • 2.2.5      Barriers to Driver Licence Acquisition for Indigenous People
      • 2.2.6      Licensing Access for Other Road User Groups
    • 2.3    Jurisdiction-specific Program Reports
      • 2.3.1      Queensland
      • 2.3.2      New South Wales
      • 2.3.3      Northern Territory
      • 2.3.4      South Australia
      • 2.3.5      Western Australia
  • 3. Jurisdictional Consultation
    • 3.1    Current Programs
    • 3.2    Program Context
    • 3.3    Future Programs
    • 3.4    Towards National Policy and Program Guidelines
  • 4. Discussion
    • 4.1    Summary of Findings
    • 4.2    Social Impact of Licensing
    • 4.3    Data Collection
    • 4.4    Costs and Benefits
  • 5. Program Logic
    • 5.1    The Logic Model as a Tool for Program Design and Development
    • 5.2    Four-level Logic Model of the Indigenous Licensing Project 
      • 5.2.1      Strand One - Working towards National Policy Principles
      • 5.2.2      Strand Two - Mitigating Systemic, Countervailing Policy and Program Barriers
      • 5.2.3      Strand Three - Connecting Related and Supporting Initiatives
      • 5.2.4      Strand Four - Establishing a Minimum Data Set and Reporting Arrangements
      • 5.2.5      Impacting Factors
  • 6. National Policy Principles
    • 6.1    Policy Principles
      • 6.1.1      Principle One - Removing and Mitigating Barriers to Participation
      • 6.1.2      Principle Two - Program Design Promoting Participation and Outcomes
      • 6.1.3      Principle Three - Flexible Design and Contextualised Programs
      • 6.1.4      Principle Four - Culturally Secure Design and Delivery
      • 6.1.5      Principle Five - Community Engagement and Ownership
      • 6.1.6      Principle Six - Predictable and Consistent Program Delivery
      • 6.1.7      Principle Seven - Collaborative Practice, Shared Resources and Data
    • 6.2    Application of National Principles
    • 6.3    Key Program Delivery Strategies
  • 7. Minimum National Data Set
    • 7.1    Minimum Data Requirements
      • 7.1.1      The Proposed National Minimum Data Set
      • 7.1.2      The Standard Indigenous Status Question
    • 7.2    National Data Sharing and Reporting Framework
    • 7.3    Austroads Data and Resource Library
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Appendix A  Program Descriptions
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