Acknowledgements
The review team was a partnership between Morgan Disney & Associates, Tracey Whetnall, Benny Hodges, Sharon Payne, and Courage Partners Pty Ltd.
This review occurred within a tight timeframe and in a period when the Indigenous communities and Indigenous Coordination Centres (ICCs) we visited were managing significant issues and had recently been involved in other reviews including the ICC Evaluation. Towards the end of this SRA Implementation review the events surrounding the release of the report - Little Children Are Sacred - and the national emergency response that followed, impacted on our ability to further test some issues with some key stakeholders. To the best of our ability we have reflected the views and opinions of both government and community stakeholders interviewed during the fieldwork for this review.
We have not identified specific communities visited nor cited any individual. We have respected the confidences of all of the stakeholders and generalised the findings as much as possible, in accordance with good practice research.Â
At all times we were welcomed and given the support we needed to be able to complete this task. ICC staff facilitated access to files, communities and other agency staff. The communities we visited welcomed the opportunity to contribute and were very open and frank in their feedback. The review team wishes to acknowledge this support and to thank everyone with whom we worked from both governments and communities.