Coombs’ bastard child: The troubled life of CDEP
Coombs’ bastard child: The troubled life of CDEP Journal Article
Australian Journal of Public Administration
- Author(s): Will Sanders
- Published: 2012
- Volume: 71
Abstract: In the mid 1970s HC Coombs was a major promoter of the idea behind the CDEP scheme: that rather than pay lots of Aboriginal people in remote areas unemployment benefits it would be more constructive for them to be employed part-time by local Indigenous organisations to undertake socially useful tasks. From this simple idea was born one of the most significant and, in time, one of the largest Indigenous-specific programs Australia has seen, the Community Development Employment Projects scheme. The birth was not easy and neither has been the subsequent life of what I have called, with great licence, Coombs’ bastard child.
- Urls: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8500.12000
- Keywords: Indigenous employment program, geographic and intra-governmental dimensions, generational moral structure