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dc.contributor.editorJordan, Kirrily
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-08 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:56:48Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:56:48Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier619493
dc.identifierOCN: 965135844en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32041
dc.description.abstractThe end of the very long-standing Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme in 2015 marked a critical juncture in Australian Indigenous policy history. For more than 30 years, CDEP had been among the biggest and most influential programs in the Indigenous affairs portfolio, employing many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. More recently, it had also become a focus of intense political contestation that culminated in its ultimate demise. This book examines the consequences of its closure for Indigenous people, communities and organisations. The end of CDEP is first situated in its broader historical and political context: the debates over notions of ‘self-determination’ versus ‘mainstreaming’ and the enduring influence of concerns about ‘passive welfare’ and ‘mutual obligation’. In this way, the focus on CDEP highlights more general trends in Indigenous policymaking, and questions whether the dominant government approach is on the right track. Each chapter takes a different disciplinary approach to this question, variously focusing on the consequences of change for community and economic development, individual work habits and employment outcomes, and institutional capacity within the Indigenous sector. Across the case studies examined, the chapters suggest that the end of CDEP has heralded the emergence of a greater reliance on welfare rather than the increased employment outcomes the government had anticipated. Concluding that CDEP was ‘better than welfare’ in many ways, the book offers encouragement to policymakers to ensure that future reforms generate livelihood options for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians that are, in turn, better than CDEP.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands::1MB Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa::1MBF Australiaen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies::JBSL11 Indigenous peoplesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBA Relating to Indigenous peoplesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSB Welfare and benefit systemsen_US
dc.subject.otherself-determination
dc.subject.otheraustralian indigenous policy
dc.subject.otherwelfare
dc.subject.otherAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
dc.subject.otherAṉangu
dc.subject.otherCommunity Development Employment Projects
dc.subject.otherLabour economics
dc.subject.otherWallaga Lake National Park
dc.titleBetter Than Welfare? Work and livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after CDEP
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.22459/CAEPR36.08.2016
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.relation.isbn9781760460273
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_and_Torres_Strait_Islander_Commission; Aṉangu - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E1%B9%89angu; Community Development Employment Projects - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Development_Employment_Projects; Indigenous Australians - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians; Labour economics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_economics; Wallaga Lake National Park - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallaga_Lake_National_Park
oapen.identifier.ocn965135844


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