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A lack of public transport (government or commercial transport services availablefor use by the general public, such as regular bus, ferry or air services) can oftenmean that comparably short distances are an impediment to accessing services. In2006:• 63 discrete Indigenous communities with a reported usual population of 10 876people (11 per cent of the reported population of all discrete Indigenouscommunities) were located within towns that provided major services(ABS 2007).• For communities not located within towns, 894 communities reported road as themain mode of transport. These 894 communities represented a combinedreported usual population of 63 529 people (63 per cent of the reportedpopulation of all discrete Indigenous communities) (ABS 2007).• 28 discrete Indigenous communities with a reported usual population of10 699 Indigenous people (11 per cent of the reported population of all discreteIndigenous communities) reported that public transport services were availableto and from the community into towns that provide major services (ABS 2007).Data on access to clean water and functional sewerage in discrete Indigenouscommunities can be found in section 10.2. Information about Aboriginal primaryhealth care centres and state-funded community health centres located in discreteIndigenous communities and whether any Indigenous health workers had visited orworked within these communities is reported in section 9.3.Data on the mental health of Aboriginal children in WA collected in the 2001 and2002 WAACHS was compared with contacts with Mental Health Services in WA(both hospital-based and community-based). Some of the findings include:• Even though there was a high proportion of Aboriginal children at high risk ofclinically significant emotional and behavioural difficulties, very few childrenhad had contact with Mental Health Services (less than one per cent of childrenunder 4 years of age, 3.8 per cent of children aged 4–11 years, and 11.0 per centof children aged 12–17 years) (Zubrick et al. 2005).• For the age groups 4–11 years and 12–17 years, the proportion of children whohad contact with Mental Health Services decreased with remoteness. Thisdecline reflected the availability of services in extremely isolated areas and thedecrease in the proportion of children at high risk of clinically significantemotional or behavioural difficulties with remoteness (Zubrick et al. 2005).More information on the mental wellbeing of children is reported in section 9.4.The 2001 and 2002 WAACHS surveyed primary carers of Aboriginal childrenabout access to community services and facilities and these results were comparedFUNCTIONAL ANDRESILIENT FAMILIESAND COMMUNITIES