Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is touring some of the nation's most remote Aboriginal communities and seeing firsthand the effects of his Government's policies.
On Monday, he travelled to Yalata on the South Australian coast.
Mr Turnbull says a controversial welfare card is reducing abuse in such communities, but not everyone is convinced.
Missing school is hard when the Prime Minister himself walks you to the front gate.
"Good to see you. Have a good day at school."
Far from Parliament House, on the streets of Yalata, South Australia, Malcolm Turnbull is praising one Anangu community for its school attendance.
"You can see the way the community is taking responsibility for all the children -- not just your own kids, or your nephews or nieces, but all of the kids -- to make sure that they all get to school."
School attendance is not outstanding here -- the latest government data shows attendance rates were about 63 per cent in 2014.
But it is increasing, up 13 per cent on the year before that.
Yalata Anangu School principal Bob Sim says local school-attendance officers are making daily efforts to bring the students to school.
"It's still not good enough, but we're heading in the right direction. We want to build those good attending routines and habits in the small kids so they keep that as a lifelong learning."
The Prime Minister says the real focus of his visit, though, is a chance to talk with local residents about the controversial, mandatory Healthy Welfare Card.
"What a great inspiring way of taking responsibility for your own community, addressing in a clear-eyed way the challenges that you face."
The region is undergoing a 12-month trial of the card.
It affects every welfare recipient in the area by quarantining 80 per cent of their welfare payment to the card, where it cannot be spent on alcohol nor gambling.
The remaining 20 per cent can be spent as cash.
The National Congress of Australia's First People's Rod Little says community alcohol-management programs might have been a better solution.
"It's not necessary to have a card if you can work with community to introduce solutions that they might see as better than rolling out a card."
And he says a welfare card would not be needed if welfare itself, and its root causes, were eliminated.
"What does it cost to administer and introduce a card, as opposed to finding proper programs to build the capacity of individuals to hold down a job, especially if they haven't had a job for a very long time?"
Yalata elder Mima Smart says many locals wanted the Healthy Welfare Card, but she says it is not necessarily welcome.
"A lot of people are still concerned about the card, because it was only for this year. A lot of people are saying they're going to push it for another couple of years, and it's not been told to this community."
Labor cautiously supported the three nationwide trial sites through parliament, but the Greens say it is discriminatory.
They say the better option is to strengthen frontline alcohol programs.
Malcolm Turnbull says it is unfair to judge the card only halfway into its 12-month trial.
"I have got no doubt that there'll be learnings from the trial and refinements will follow."
