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Editorial |
Editorial
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This issue brings together a range of articles concerned in different ways with the relationship between policy goals, practice and outcomes. At the heart of a number of contributors is the question of who benefits from community development interventions and what relationship do such interventions have on the organization of society as well as the impact on targeted local communities. The reflective and self-critical article by Danielle Campbell, Paul Wunungmurra and Helen Nyomba draws directly upon their own experiences and tells a familiar albeit depressing tale of well-intentioned but badly thought out and poorly implemented policy. It focuses on the struggles within a community-based health project in a remote Aboriginal Australian context to come to terms with the need to transform the dominant professional paradigm that creates social distance between practitioners and local residents. Set in the broader policy context of limited and inconsistent government