Better Than Welfare? Work and livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after CDEP
The 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 m...
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| description | The 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-288692025-01-15T23:36:06Z Better Than Welfare? Work and livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after CDEP Jordan, Kirrily self-determination australian indigenous policy welfare Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Aṉangu Community Development Employment Projects Labour economics Wallaga Lake National Park thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands::1MB Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa::1MBF Australia thema 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 peoples thema 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 peoples thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSB Welfare and benefit systems The 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2016-11-08 00:00:00 2020-04-01T13:56:48Z 2016 book 619493 OCN: 965135844 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32041 9781760460273 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28869 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32041/1/619493.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32041/1/619493.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32041/1/619493.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32041/1/619493.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32041/1/619493.pdf ANU Press 10.22459/CAEPR36.08.2016 10.22459/CAEPR36.08.2016 975ba519-3ce2-4517-95bf-b847729fbcf1 9781760460273 open access |
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| title | Better Than Welfare? Work and livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after CDEP |
| title_full | Better Than Welfare? Work and livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after CDEP |
| title_fullStr | Better Than Welfare? Work and livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after CDEP |
| title_full_unstemmed | Better Than Welfare? Work and livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after CDEP |
| title_short | Better Than Welfare? Work and livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after CDEP |
| title_sort | better than welfare work and livelihoods for indigenous australians after cdep |
| topic | self-determination australian indigenous policy welfare Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Aṉangu Community Development Employment Projects Labour economics Wallaga Lake National Park thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands::1MB Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa::1MBF Australia thema 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 peoples thema 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 peoples thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSB Welfare and benefit systems |
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